Ione gradually intensified as it moved almost due west as it crossed the Atlantic and reached hurricane intensity during the night of September 14. Web.
221, 224, 229.The Floods of Hurricane Connie and Diane. Rainfall amounted to 510 mm (20 in) in New England over the two-day period when Diane was a tropical storm off the Northeast coast.
Hurricanes Connie and Diane 1955 These two hurricanes must be mentioned together. During this time, the storm made several small-scale oscillations within its track (Figure 3).Adding to the previous devastation from Hurricanes Connie and Diane, especially from flooding 6 weeks earlier, Ione caused over 600 million dollars in damage to eastern North Carolina, much of it agricultural losses. Storms before the 1900s. The system began as a Hurricane Diane continued to weaken as it moved over Raleigh, NC, and into Virginia, where maximum wind speeds were 56 km/h (35 mph). Ione gradually intensified as it moved almost due west as it crossed the Atlantic and reached hurricane intensity during the night of September 14. 315-326.
Other areas also incurred significant damage. Aliquam vel justo id purus facilisis ultricies. Nulla facilisi. 1955. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998. Louisiana State University Press, 1964. Hurricane Diane might not have caused so much damage had Hurricane Connie not struck a few days earlier. For some 35 hours, on September 18 through early morning on September 20, the eye was under radar surveillance. Monthly Weather Review. Wikipedia. The 1955 flood was arguably Connecticut’s greatest natural disaster in modern times. Hurricane Diane was one of three hurricanes to hit the North Carolina coast during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricanes of 1955. The storm then turned toward the northeast, where its heavy rains produced devastating floods. North Carolina’s Hurricane History. The worst hurricanes to hit Massachusetts from 1900-2000, in reverse date order, are: Hurricane Bob in 1991; "the twins" from 1954, Hurricanes Carol and Edna; and last but not least, the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. Hurricane Case Studies. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Strong and prolonged easterly winds caused some of the largest tidal inundations in eastern North Carolina history.
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_River>A street in Winstead, CT filled with debris following the passage of Hurricane Diane. Hurricane Diane was one of three hurricanes to hit the North Carolina coast during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season. Morehead City recorded a surge of 3.6 feet, while further south at Wrightsville Beach, a storm tide of 5.3 feet was observed. Ione reached its greatest intensity on September 17 with a central pressure of 938 millbars (27.70 inches/mercury) and peak winds of 125 mph, a category three on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale. The system moved past Philadelphia, PA, off the New Jersey coast, and then paralleled the southern New England coast as a Rainfall from Hurricane Connie had saturated the ground and significantly raised water levels as it moved through central coastal NC five days prior to the arrival of Hurricane Diane. Although it was difficult to estimate total damages stemming from Hurricane Diane at first (as the magnitude of the storm was so great), it was determined that the floods and other impacts from the hurricane caused between $832 million and $1 billion (1955 USD) in damage, making it the costliest hurricane in U.S. history at the time (until it was surpassed by Hurricane Betsy in 1965).Dunn, G.E., Davis, W.R., and Moore, P.L.
1999. Storms in the 1910s. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Although Connie did not produce significant flooding, it set the stage for Hurricane Diane to create some of the most destructive floods the river valleys of eastern Pennsylvania, northwest New Jersey, southeast New York and southern New England had ever seen. Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 hurricane season (Figure 1) and is the strongest and only Category 4 hurricane to ever hit the North Carolina coast. Sorry, the location you searched for was not found. Just days later on September 11, Hurricane Edna made landfall in Maine and went on to cause another 2 deaths and $40 million in damage, earning its own spot on the retired name list. The Daily Independent Kannapolis North Carolina 1955-09-20