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	CNN.com - Hurricane Alex heads out to sea - Aug 3, 2004
		Alex changed direction Tuesday afternoon after strengthening to a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph.
		The hurricane center classifies a storm as a Category 2 hurricane when its sustained winds reach 96 mph (154 kph).
		Alex was the fifth-latest first hurricane to form in the Atlantic hurricane season's last 50 years.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WEATHER/08/03/alex/index.html (677 words)

	Hurricane Alex (2004) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hurricane Alex was the first named storm, the first hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season.
		Alex marked the fifth-latest start to a hurricane season in fifty years; the latest start to a hurricane season since 1954 was Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
		Hurricane Alex continued to strengthen, becoming a category 2 storm, and that afternoon came within 10 miles (16 km) of the Outer Banks of North Carolina without making landfall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Alex_(2004) (481 words)

	2004 Atlantic hurricane season - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As of 11pm EDT, August 4, Alex was moving east-northeast at 25 mi/h (40 km/h) 800 miles (1300 km) southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland as a 120 mi/h (195 km/h) hurricane.
		Hurricane Alex is forecast to continue generally east across the Atlantic, becoming extratropical on August 6, and is expected to be absorbed by another system early on August 8 over the north Atlantic.
		Alex is the fifth-latest forming first hurricane in fifty years; the latest start to a hurricane season since 1954 was Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
	www.i-encyclopedia.com /index.php?title=2004_Atlantic_hurricane_season (814 words)

	NHC Tropical Cyclone Report
		Alex strengthened and became a major hurricane (Category 3) at 0000 UTC 5 August, with winds of 105 kt and a minimum pressure of 957 mb.
		Alex reached its estimated maximum intensity after all reconnaissance flights had ended; the peak wind estimate of 105 kt is based on a blend of objective and subjective Dvorak numbers.
		Strengthening to a hurricane was first forecast in the advisory issued at 1500 UTC 2 August, but it was felt at that time that hurricane force winds would remain offshore.
	www.nhc.noaa.gov /2004alex.shtml (2012 words)

	Hurricane Alex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Alex has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
		2004's Hurricane Alex - a Category 2 hurricane that came within 10 miles (16 km) of the Outer Banks of North Carolina
		"Alex" replaced the name "Andrew" after 1992's Hurricane Andrew caused that name to be retired.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Alex (131 words)

	Hurricane Alex
		By now it was obvious Alex had not moved to the east as much as everyone had hoped and the western eyewall was poised to cross the Outer Banks as he turned to the northeast.
		Alex was a glancing blow and Isabel crossed the coast moving inland from the southwest.
		Alex's surge was from the Pamlico Sound which is shallower water and the waves did not have time to build to large.
	www.vastormphoto.com /alex2004.htm (1892 words)

	2004 Atlantic hurricane season - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is the first time four hurricanes have hit one state in one season since four hurricanes hit the Texas coast in 1886, including the hurricane that destroyed the city of Indianola.
		Hurricane Alex was the strongest hurricane on record to intensify north of 38 degrees longitude.
		Hurricane Ivan has so far been responsible for at least 70 deaths in the Carribean and 50 in the United States, mostly due to massive flooding.
	www.greatestinfo.org /2004_Atlantic_hurricane_season (4971 words)

	JAMCOR NEWS.....Hurricane ALEX... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The National Weather Service predicted hurricane Alex to be near North Latitude 37.7 and West Longitude 69.0 with a range of about 400 miles east of Cape Hatteras North Carolina.
		Alex Is moving North East at 20 mph and is expected to stay continue for the next day or so.
		Hurricane force winds are predicted to be around the 60 miles out from the center of the eye.
	www.jamcorbroadcast.com /Weather/AlexHurr8_4.dwt (109 words)

	The Seattle Times: Weather: Hurricane Alex's winds top 100 mph
		RODANTHE, N.C. — Hurricane Alex strengthened with sustained wind reaching 100 mph today as it followed a track just off the coast of North Carolina, but most of the storm-hardened residents of the Outer Banks didn't even bother to board up their windows.
		EDT, the hurricane was centered about 30 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, with its forward motion at nearly 17 mph, the Miami-based hurricane center said.
		A hurricane warning was in effect along the Outer Banks from Cape Lookout to Oregon Inlet, and tropical storm warnings extended north to the Virginia state line and south of Cape Lookout to Surf City.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/weather/2001995603_webalex03.html (605 words)

	New York Post Online Edition: learncenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hurricane season began on June 1 and continues though Nov. 30.
		Hurricanes are classified in categories from one to five, depending on the storm's strength.
		The areas hardest hit by hurricanes are the Caribbean islands and the southeast coast of the U.S. bordering the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.nypost.com /learncenter/cextra/091504/class.htm (683 words)

	Hurricane ! Alex! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nine out of ten deaths in hurricanes occur from drowning in storm tides or surges of water that sweep ashore with driving winds.
		Alex, I scream, as a 13-foot wall of water heads straight toward him.
		Hurricanes deliver rain to barren regions and disseminate the extreme heat that accumulates in the tropics.
	gnv.fdt.net /~christys/talkshow/genre/hurricane.html (425 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Hurricane Alex grazes N.C. Outer Banks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The storm grew to hurricane strength, 74 mph, early in the day and by midday the sustained wind around its eye had revved up to nearly 100 mph, with higher gusts, the National Hurricane Center said.
		Alex bore little similarity to the 100-mph Isabel, North Carolina's most recent hurricane, which made landfall Sept. 18, 2003, damaging more than 53,000 homes in 47 counties.
		Tuesday, Alex was well out to sea, with the hurricane center reporting the storm's center about 110 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras and headed northeast.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/08/03/hurricane_warnings_issued_for_nc_coast?mode=PF (634 words)

	Hurricane Alex--First Storm And Major Hurricane Of 2004
		Hurricane Alex started out as an area of disturbed weather in the Western Atlantic several hundred miles from Cape Hatteras, and brushed the Outer Banks as the season's first hurricane.
		Moving to the Northeast at 9 mph, Alex was paralleling the coast, and Watches and Warnings remained status quo in response.
		Three hours later, Alex, which was now located some 35 miles to the south of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, grew in intensity once again as its winds were bumped up to 90 mph, and its pressure dropped at a rate of three millibars per hour to 974 mb, or 28.76 inches.
	www.hurricaneville.com /alex.html (1488 words)

	Alex Forrest's Blog: Hurricane Season
		Hurricane Dennis is bearing down on the US Gulf Coast, expected to arrive in a couple of days.
		I didn't even realize there was a category 5 hurricane out there until yesterday.) As it turns out, the latest predictions have it heading down the same path that Ivan took last year, which would have it coming in right on top of some of my family in Gulf Shores, AL.
		During my time there we had to be evacuated from the path of Hurricane Erin (which is also the name of my sister...
	alexforrest.blogspot.com /2005/07/hurricane-season.html (249 words)

	Alex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The first named storm of the season was Alex, which reached tropical storm status on August 1st.
		Alex raked past past Cape Hattaras where it caused massive power outtages and some flooding on the barrier islands.
		Hurricane Alex brushed the Carolinas at the beginning of August.
	www.hurricanehunters.com /alex.htm (289 words)

	ZoomViewer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hurricane Alex formed as a tropical depression on July 31, and developed into a tropical storm on August 2.
		Hurricane Alex skims the North Carolina shoreline in this image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on August 3, 2004, at 12 p.m.
		At that time, Alex was a Category Two hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour and stronger gusts.
	www.space.com /php/multimedia/zoomviewer/index.php?display_img=hurricane_alex (110 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hurricane Alex clips Cape Hatteras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As of 3 p.m., Hurricane Alex was beginning to move away from the Outer Banks.
		As Alex inched past Cape Hatteras, the National Hurricane Center received an unofficial report of sustained winds of 80 mph with gusts to between 90 and 100 mph in Buxton, near the Cape.
		Alex grew to hurricane strength early Tuesday and by late morning the sustained wind around its eye — which remained off the coast — had revved up to nearly 100 mph, with higher gusts, the National Hurricane Center said.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/news/2004-08-03-alex-northcarolina_x.htm (532 words)

	Hurricane Alex 2004
		Hurricane Alex* was the first hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which developed into an unusually strong Category 3 Storm while accelerating northeastward into the Northwestern Atlantic.
		Because Alex was a relatively small tropical cyclone, the hurricane-force wind radii never exceeded 25 miles from the storm’s center during his closest approach to the Outer Banks2.
		Alex proceeded to move away from the North Carolina coast during the evening, and began accelerating towards the east-northeast under an increasingly fast steering current.
	disc.gsfc.nasa.gov /hurricane/HurricaneAlex2004.shtml (658 words)

	CBS News \| Hurricane Alex Heads Out To Sea \| August 3, 2004 23:44:13
		Alex was expected to gradually turn toward the northeast.
		Hurricane Alex's 100 mph winds stayed well off the Carolina coast and residents say the storm proved to be more of a nuisance than a natural disaster, Sharyn Alfonsi reports.
		Hurricane Alex is expected to brush the North Carolina's Outer Banks, with warnings in effect from Cape Lookout to Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/08/02/tech/main633397.shtml (854 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 2275)
		EDT, the center of Hurricane Alex was located near latitude 34.7 north, longitude 75.8 west or about 40 miles south-southwest of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Alex is moving toward the northeast near 15 mph.
		Alex is the first hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
		Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 25 miles, mainly to the east of the center, and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 105 miles.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2004/s2275.htm (535 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hurricane Alex leaves behind flooded roads, downed power lines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Alex, stronger than expected but sparing the North Carolina coast a direct hit, brought plenty of wind, rain and flooding to the Outer Banks, cutting power to thousands and flooding Hatteras Island's only link to the mainland.
		Alex grew to hurricane strength, 74 mph, early Tuesday; by midday the sustained wind around its eye had revved up to about 100 mph, with higher gusts, the National Hurricane Center said.
		By late Wednesday morning, Alex was centered about 400 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras with its top sustained wind speed down to about 85 mph, according to the hurricane center.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/2004-08-03-alex-hits_x.htm (753 words)

	IOL: Hurricane Alex floods North Carolina homes
		The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was rated at Category 2 on a scale of 1 to 5 that forecasters use to measure hurricanes.
		Alex was 285km east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, at latitude 36.5 north and longitude 72.8 west, by 11pm (03h00 GMT on Wednesday) and was moving away at 28kph.
		Alex returned to almost the same spot but did not deliver a full-force blow to the Outer Banks, a fragile chain of islands known for its kilometres of undeveloped beaches where the population swells with thousands of tourists in summer.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1091592003469B236 (712 words)

	PalmBeachPost.com Storm 2004: Alex
		It reaches hurricane strength early in the day and by midday the sustained wind around its eye rev up to nearly 100 mph, with higher gusts.
		The eye just barely passes by Cape Hatteras, leaving the east side of the hurricane - where the strongest wind and heaviest rain are located - out at sea instead of battering communities still recovering from last year's devastating Hurricane Isabel.
		Hurricane Alex remains strong but far out to sea.
	www.palmbeachpost.com /storm/content/weather/special/storm/2004/atlantic/alex/news.html (548 words)

	United Press International: Hurricane Alex blusters into Atlantic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Published 8/4/2004 7:40 AM MIAMI, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Hurricane Alex has moved safely away from the U.S. Atlantic coast, but is leaving heavy rainfall, rough seas and wind in its wake, CNN reports.
		Tuesday night, The National Hurricane Center discontinued all hurricane and tropical storm warnings for the mid-Atlantic coast, but warned high surf and rip currents could affect coastal areas for the next day or so.
		Hurricane force winds extended outward up to 60 miles from the storm's center.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040804-072816-5374r (167 words)

	FEMA: Hurricanes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more.
		Hurricane winds blow in a large spiral around a relative calm center known as the "eye." The "eye" is generally 20 to 30 miles wide, and the storm may extend outward 400 miles.
		A single hurricane can last for more than 2 weeks over open waters and can run a path across the entire length of the eastern seaboard.
	www.fema.gov /hazards/hurricanes (208 words)

	North Carolina Coast Takes on Hurricane Alex
		Although the Center expects Alex to stay on track from north to northeast, any westward deviance could carry the center onto shore.
		The Hurricane Center expected rainfall accumulations from 3 to 6 inches, with coastal storm surge flooding of two to four feet above normal on Atlantic shorelines.
		Hurricane Emily on the Prowl in Yucatan; Texas Coast Prepares
	www.insurancejournal.com /news/southeast/2004/08/03/44657.htm (502 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Stronger-than-expected Hurricane Alex grazes Outer Banks, cutting power and ...
		Though Hurricane Alex has picked up strength, storm-hardened residents of the Outer Banks are taking it's arrival in stride.
		BUXTON, N.C. – A stronger-than-expected Hurricane Alex brushed North Carolina's coast Tuesday, cutting power to thousands and flooding Hatteras Island's only link to the mainland but sparing the area a direct hit.
		The eye of the storm just barely passed by Cape Hatteras, leaving the east side of the hurricane – with the strongest wind and heaviest rain – out at sea instead of battering communities still recovering from last year's devastating Hurricane Isabel.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040803-1915-tropicalweather.html (638 words)

	cbs4denver.com: Carolina Coast Braces For Hurricane Alex
		(CBS) MANTEO, N.C. Upgraded from a tropical storm early Tuesday, Hurricane Alex, the first named hurricane of the season, picked up strength and speed as it spun along the coast of North Carolina, but most of the storm-hardened residents of the Outer Banks didn't bother to board their windows.
		Though it was expected to gain strength as it passes very near and likely brush the state's barrier islands later in the day, Alex is a lightweight by local standards.
		Alex started as a tropical depression Saturday and, amid light steering currents, spun in place off the South Carolina coast most of Sunday.
	news4colorado.com /topstories/topstories_story_216074823.html (484 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Hurricane Alex
		Hurricane Alex skims the North Carolina shoreline in this image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on August 3, 2004, at 12 p.m.
		According to the Tropical Prediction Center, Alex is moving towards the northeast at 15 mph and is expected to maintain that course over the next 24 hours.
		The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Alex formed as a tropical depression on July 31, and developed into a tropical storm on August 2.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16626 (202 words)

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