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	Hurricane History
		This hurricane struck with little warning and was responsible for 600 deaths and $308 million in damage in the United States.
		Donna then curved northeastward, crossing the Florida Peninsula on September 11, followed by eastern North Carolina (Category 3) on the 12th, and the New England states (Category 3 on Long Island and Categories 1 to 2 elsewhere) on the 12th and 13th.
		Rita, the third Category 5 hurricane of the season, was a destructive and deadly hurricane that devastated portions of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana and significantly impacted the Florida Keys.
	www.nhc.noaa.gov /HAW2/english/history.shtml (12233 words)

	United States Southern Command • Hurricane: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Donna followed a general west-northwestward track for the following five days, passing over the northern Leeward Islands on the 4th and 5th as a Category 4 hurricane and then to the north of Puerto Rico later on the 5th.
		Donna then curved northeastward, crossing the Florida Peninsula on September 11, followed by eastern North Carolina (Category 3) on the 12th, and the New England states (Category 3 on Long Island and Categories 1 to 2 elsewhere) on the 12th and 13th.
		As a result, hurricane warnings were not issued until midnight on September 18th, which gave the booming population of South Florida little notice of the impending disaster.
	www.southcom.mil /usag-miami/sites/hurricane/hurricane_history.asp (2257 words)

	Historic Hurricanes--Some Of The Most Powerful Storms On Record.
		Hurricane Allen--The first named storm of the 1980 Atlantic Hurricane Season, Allen became a Category Five hurricane on three separate occasions, and is ranked as one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic.
		Hurricane Grace--Contrary to what was said in the movie, The Perfect Storm, Grace was only a Category Two Hurricane, but it would combine with a mid-latitude cyclone to form what would be known as the "Perfect Storm" in Meteorological terms during the final days of October, 1991.
		Hurricane Rita--The seventeenth named storm and fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season, Rita began near the Turks and Caicos Islands as a mere tropical depression on September 17th, 2005.
	www.hurricaneville.com /historic.html (8424 words)

	VIRGINIA-MASSACHUSETTS
		Consequently, it is a misnomer that hurricanes have struck the New England coast.
		Donna was a major hurricane on Long Island only - the storm weakening to a category 2 hurricane by the time it crossed the Connecticut coast.
		During the 1944 hurricane, sustained winds of 134-mph and a gust of 150-mph was recorded at the Cape Henry Lighthouse near Virginia Beach.
	www.geocities.com /hurricanene/Majorne.htm (2425 words)

	Hurricane Weather Center - from TBO.com
		These are among the most destructive hurricanes to hit the United States from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean since 1900.
		This was the deadliest hurricane of the 20th century.
		Donna was responsible for 50 deaths in the United States and 147 in Puerto Rico.
	hurricane.weathercenter.com /guide/history.htm (1005 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hurricane Donna began as a tropical depression off the coast of Africa on August 29th, and began moving to the west at a speed of 27 mph.
		On September 1st, the storm had become a hurricane and was now located well to the east of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.
		Donna had then lost some of its intensity, gradually decreasing to a Category 3 just north of Puerto Rico.
	www.pivot.net /~cotterly/donna.htm (733 words)

	Hurricane Donna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hurricane Donna in the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season was a Category 5 Cape Verde-type hurricane that interfered with the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispanola, Cuba, The Bahamas, and every single state on the East Coast of the United States.
		Hurricane Donna was a very destructive storm giving that it affected the most land areas in history, a record held until Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
		Donna killed seven people and caused minimal damage when it passed though the Virgin Islands, in Puerto Rico, although the center of the storm was 85 miles offshore, the outer rain bands brought heavy rains that caused serious flashflooding which killed 107 people (85 of them in Humacao).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Donna (840 words)

	Tropmet.com - Image Archives - 1965 Hurricane Betsy
		Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana in September of 1965.
		At this time, the hurricane is moving steadily northwest, east of the Bahamas...over the next six days the hurricane's motion became highly erratic, first stalling and then moving south and finally west, crossing the Northern Bahamas and then extreme Southern Florida before entering the Gulf of Mexico and making a final landfall in Louisiana.
		The eye of Hurricane Betsy is clearly defined and plainly visible from a high-altitude Air Force reconnaissance aircraft at 1250 EST on September 2, 1965.
	www.tropmet.com /gallery/hurricane/gal_1965_betsy.htm (1223 words)

	Hurricane Facts
		The highest wind recorded in the Auburn/Lewiston area during a hurricane was 78 mph in 1954 (Carol), and in Maine was 81 mph at Blue Hill and 80 mph at Wiscasset in 1991 (Bob).
		The heaviest rainfall recorded during a hurricane was 8.05" in Brunswick during Hurricane Edna in 1954.
		Hurricane Ginny in 1963, dropped 13 inches of snow on Aroostook County, with some snow accumulation as far south as Lewiston, Maine.
	www.pivot.net /~cotterly/facts.htm (335 words)

	Jay Barnes on Hurricanes \| Florida's Hurricane History \| Donna (September 9-11, 1960)
		Even though the hurricane regained intensity before it struck the North Carolina coast, its eye had expanded to become a broad, diffuse area of calm, ranging from fifty to eighty miles in diameter.
		Donna was particularly destructive from Morehead City to the Outer Banks, where it was considered worse than any of the severe storms of the past decade.
		Hurricane Donna was widely regarded as the most destructive hurricane in Florida's history.
	www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/hurricanes/fl_donna.html (1178 words)

	Hurricane Bob 1991
		Hurricane Bob developed from a persistent area of clouds just to the east of the Bahamas.
		Hurricane Bob produced a storm-surge of 6 to 10-feet across the landfall area.
		Although Hurricane Bob was well forecast and advance notice of the storm was given - several residents in coastal areas said they were unprepared for the intense winds and storm-surge flooding.
	www.geocities.com /hurricanene/hurricanebob.htm (1524 words)

	Columns: Hurricane season stirs memories of Donna
		She is Hurricane Donna who, from Sept. 9-11, 1960, sent tens of thousands of Florida residents running for safety.
		Donna was the first hurricane that I vividly remember from beginning to end.
		When the storm, now known as Hurricane Donna, hit the Florida Keys, a sense of doom came over the adults around me. My terrified mother did what she knew best: She, along with her six children, including me, hopped on a Greyhound bus and headed north to my grandparents' home in Lake County.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/06/02/Columns/Hurricane_season_stir.shtml (773 words)

	National Weather Service Forecast Office Miami-South Florida
		Hurricane Donna, the first major hurricane in Florida since the Miami storm of October 1950, was first detected in the tropical North Atlantic on September 2.
		Donna then travelled for some 2000 miles mostly in a west-northwest direction through the extreme north-eastern Antilles, passing some 70 miles north of Puerto Rico, info the Florida Straits.
		Donna was one of the most destructive hurricanes to affect Florida in modern times.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /mfl/events/?id=donna (1149 words)

	Hurricane Tracking Information Maps - Statistics - Records - Storm Terms - Zulu time
		Hurricane: A tropical cyclone in which maximum sustained surface wind is 74 mph (64 knots) or greater.
		Hurricane Watch: An announcement that hurricane conditions pose a possible threat to a specified coastal area within 36 hours.
		Hurricane Warning: A warning that sustained winds of 74 mph (64 knots) or higher are expected in a specified coastal area within 24 hours or less.
	www.mthurricane.com /Information.htm (426 words)

	Everglades: Would a Hurricane Help...?
		The role of hurricanes in shaping the natural coastal and shallow bay communities in Florida Bay is just as important as natural fires are in maintaining healthy pine forests on the mainland.
		In Hurricane Donna the lime muds covering the Bay's basins and mud banks were churned up, but what didn't get deposited back on land by the storm surge settled back into the basins.
		Hurricane silt is responsible for building up coastal flats and adding to the high rims characteristic of keys in Florida Bay.
	www.nps.gov /ever/current/fbn96-2.htm (823 words)

	1960 Atlantic hurricane season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most notable storm of the season was Hurricane Donna, which reached Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and was the longest-lasting major hurricane in the history of the Atlantic basin.
		Donna caused $400 million in damage (1950 dollars, $3.3 billion in 2005 dollars), and caused 364 deaths, of which 148 were directly caused by the storm.
		Hurricane Ethel formed in the Gulf of Mexico on September 14 and intensified rapidly, reaching Category 5 strength that evening just south of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_Atlantic_hurricane_season (759 words)

	CHC - Storms 1960
		Hurricane Cleo formed in a broad area of stormy weather, that was located 560 kilometres northeast of Nassau, Bahamas on August 18, 1960.
		Donna was the only major hurricane of the 1960 season and the most destructive ever to strike Florida.
		Donna began re-curving and moved northwestward along the southwestern coast of the Florida peninsula.
	www.ns.ec.gc.ca /weather/hurricane/storm60.html (650 words)

	Hurricanes.net: Florida Focus - Never in Naples!
		Hurricane 'Georges', but the storm veered westward at the last minute, and passed the county by.
		Hurricanes and Tropical Storms were not named until 1950, and it didn't take long for a named storm to affect Collier County.
		It is virtually impossible for a hurricane to sneak up on us and strike with no warning, but it's not unheard of for us to miss the watch phase and go directly to a warning as some systems can develop quickly and close by.
	www.hurricanes.net /content/hdnreports/flafocus/never_naples.asp (1345 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - America's Tropical Isles - Hurricane Donna - 1960
		Then, it was back home to close the wooden hurricane shutters that hung on the outside of all our home's windows (these wooden shutters were a standard part of island architecture).
		Hurricane Donna in 1960 was one such storm that was headed directly for St. Thomas but made just enough of a turn to the North to take it away from us.
		Like Donna, Hurricane David set its sights for St. Thomas, but swerved away at the last minute and passed more than 100 miles to the South on August 31, 1979.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /travel/isles/disastr2.htm (479 words)

	Hurricane History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hurricane Andrew, which struck Florida in 1992, is the most costly hurricane of all time with $16.5 billion in damages.
		On July 12, the eye of Hurricane Bertha made landfall near the Onslow County-Pender County line but western Carteret County experienced winds in excess of 100 miles per hour.The most recent to hit as a Category II storm, it was 10 years since the next most recent storm hit.
		Hurricane Hazel was responsible for 19 deaths in North Carolina.
	www.carteretnewstimes.com /Hurricane/history.htm (889 words)

	CD Baby: DONNA X: american storm
		Donna's voice allows for a natural, strong, smooth and pleasant command of all her songs, making them quite powerful and feminine, while remaining romantic.
		Donna X is a really pretty young lady, but the artwork is not about her.
		Donna X's vocals are great enough, she has NO NEED to make it on four letter words, thrown in for trash or shock value.
	www.cdbaby.com /donnax (3046 words)

	Hurricane Floyd Reports
		The hurricane was not only turned away from it's path towards central Florida, but the force of the trough of air was sufficient to cause the path of the hurricane to be turned 90 degrees, and caused the eye to pass over the coast of North Carolina.
		Hurricanes are one disaster in which it is possible to have several days warning prior to the hurricanes arrival.
		As the arrival of the hurricane can be to some extent predicted, it is important to begin preparations for the hurricane as soon as we have information that it may land in a location near us.
	www.disastercenter.com /hurricf9.htm (3154 words)

	Hurricane History
		Eloise is the first hurricane to make a direct hit in the 20th century on this area.
		As the 12th hurricane of the season, Wilma tied 2005 with 1969 for the record number of hurricanes.
		A hurricane is a tropical storm with winds that have reached a constant speed of 74 miles per hour or more.
	www.stormtips.com /HurricaneHistory.asp (887 words)

	Climate Prediction Center - Atlantic Hurricane Outlook Update
		The prediction for an above-normal 2007 hurricane season reflects the combination of two main climate factors: 1) the continuation of conditions that have been conducive to above-normal Atlantic hurricane seasons since 1995, and 2) the continued La Niña-like pattern of tropical convection.
		Hurricane seasons during 1995-2006 have averaged 14.4 named storms, 8.2 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes, with an average ACE index of 172% of the median.
		The second key predictor for the 2007 hurricane season is the possibility of a La Niña episode in the tropical Pacific during ASO.
	www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov /products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml (1865 words)

	Hurricane Donna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Powerful Hurricane Donna roared into the northeast Caribbean at peak intensity late on Sept. 4.
		Donna then turned tail and, crossing the Florida Peninsula, raced northward along the East Coast, lashing every state from South Carolina to New York with hurricane-force winds before slamming into New England on Sept. 12 with winds gusts up to 130 mph at Block Island, R.I. Hurricane Donna crossed Long Island with a 100-mile-wide eye.
		In New Haven, Conn., a barometer measured a minimum surface pressure of 966.8 millibars, or 28.55 inches.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/huricane/wdonna.htm (148 words)

	Hurricane History
		Hurricane Donna was a small, compact and extremely powerful hurricane, which moved
		Numerous tornadoes were spawned from thunderstorm clouds associated with Hurricane Andrew in the island of Eleuthera.
		Hurricane George affected the Turks and Caicos Island and South Andros with winds near 70 miles per hour between the 16
	www.bahamasweather.org.bs /tropical/history/index.php (686 words)

	Hurricane Donna
		Hurricane Donna was a category 4 hurricane comparable to Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
		A hurricane alert (now a watch) was issued on September 7 and changed to a "warning" on September 8 at 11 a.m.
		In Hurricanes Georges and Irene seaweed was washed up about halld way onto the yard.
	www.keyshistory.org /HurrD-Hurr-Donna.html (571 words)

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