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	Hurricane Dora -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This article is about the 1964 hurricane; there was also a Tropical Storm Dora during the (additional info and facts about 1956 Atlantic hurricane season) 1956 Atlantic hurricane season.
		Dora originated as a low pressure area near (An island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal) Cape Verde on August 28.
		Dora caused only one death, but did about $280 million ($1.5 billion in 2000 dollars) in damage, primarily due to extensive inland flooding.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/hurricane_dora.htm (256 words)

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		The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm at 23/1200 UTC and to a dissipating depression at 2300 UTC.
		Hurricane Cindy had been moving on a general west-northwesterly track for several days, but by the time it regained hurricane intensity the storm was beginning to move northwestward in a broad recurve which would take it well east of Bermuda.
		Dora continued to steadily increase in strength throughout 7 Aug and at 0600 UTC on 8 Aug was upgraded to a 65-kt hurricane based on the presence of a symmetric and cold CDO and a Dvorak T-number of 4.5 from TAFB.
	www.typhoon2000.ph /aug99.txt (14199 words)

	Hurricane Bret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hurricane Dora showed us some of the most spectacular vistas of the 1999 hurricane season thus far.
		Dora was born in the Eastern North Pacific, and became a named tropical storm on the 8th of August.
		Hurricane Dora stayed south of the main Hawaiian Islands, but continued westward and forced the evacuation of Johnston Atoll.
	www.datasync.com /~hhunters/dora.htm (367 words)

	CHC - Storms 1964
		The hurricane remained small and concentrated and destructive winds were confined to a small area near the eye.
		As Hurricane Cleo passed south of Haiti on August 24 it veered northward momentarily, which was enough to move onto the southwestern peninsula.
		Hurricane Dora was the first hurricane on record to move inland from the east over extreme northeastern Florida.
	www.ns.ec.gc.ca /weather/hurricane/storm64.html (1266 words)

	TPC PACIFIC DORA 1999 PRELIMINARY REPORT
		Dora originated from a tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa on 23 July.
		and Dora is estimated to have reached its peak intensity of 120 knots at 0000 UTC on the 12
		During this fluctuation, it is believed that Dora may have experienced a concentric eyewall cycle as SSMI and infrared satellite imagery showed enhanced convection occurring at a larger distance from the center.
	www.nhc.noaa.gov /1999dora.html (908 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jacksonville, Florida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The only hurricane to directly hit the city was Hurricane Dora in 1964 with winds that had just barely diminished to 110 mph, making it a strong Category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
		Hurricane Dora was the first and only (to date) hurricane to make landfall on the coast of northeast Florida; more specifically, the metropolitan area of Jacksonville (however, Hurricane Donna in 1960 did produce hurricane-force winds in the Jacksonville area with its center just offshore).
		The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale is a scale classifying hurricanes by the intensity of their sustained winds, developed in 1969 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and National Hurricane Center director Bob Simpson.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jacksonville,-Florida (9380 words)

	Hurricane And History Blew Through Lad's Life - from TBO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dora's wind and the rain blew through the blocks of her home and left the family ``mopping all night, she said.
		Another hurricane survivor, Maxwell Dickinson, said he was too concerned about putting food on the table and a home for his wife and three children to be concerned about The Beatles or President Johnson.
		In their book, ``Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms,'' John M. Williams and Iver W. Duedall, said Dora was the first to strike north Florida at a 90- degree angle since the Great Hurricane of 1880.
	news.tbo.com /news/MGB0YHH1WUD.html (840 words)

	Hurricane Dora
		Dora is moving toward the west near 18 mph...30 km/hr...and this motion is expected to continue during the next 24 hours.
		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 /hurrid9.htm (1802 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		Hurricane Dora, packing winds of up to 65 miles per hour, is expected to hit remote Johnston Atoll tonight.
		Foreman said that after Hurricane Dora has its way with the island, the first to return will be an Army reconnaissance and reconstitution force.
		Hurricane Dora is expected to wipe out the current reproductive cycle of the majority of the 150,000 seabirds nestling in the three islands that make up the Johnston Atoll Wildlife Refuge.
	starbulletin.com /1999/08/17/news/story3.html (1254 words)

	Hurricane Dora - September 1964 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dora was the first hurricane to impact northeast Florida in at least 79 years.
		into a hurricane on the 2nd as it began to move northwest.
		The heaviest of the rain fell during the 11th and the 12th and the storm doubled back to the east.
	www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov /tropical/rain/dora1964.html (192 words)

	Hurricane Eugene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is relatively rare for a an Eastern Pacific hurricane to avoid cold water and shearing tradewinds, and make it all the way to Hawaii in the Central Pacific.
		Remember that the winds in a hurricane blow counter- clockwise (in the Northern Hemisphere, that is).
		Both hurricanes were moving westward towards the Islands, and we tracked both around the clock until they were no longer a threat.
	www.hurricanehunters.com /eugene.htm (359 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Military evacuates Johnston Island in advance of hurricane 08/19/99
		Winds at the center of the hurricane had diminished to 70 mph to 75 mph by Tuesday evening as the storm passed about 70 miles south of the island.
		Ten hours before the hurricane was expected to pass through, not one was left on the atoll.
		A full-scale evacuation was ordered before Hurricane John swept though the island in 1994, causing $10 million to $15 million worth of damage and forcing a one-month shutdown of the plant's automated system that destroys nerve and mustard gas weapons.
	www.augustachronicle.com /stories/081999/tec_124-5360.shtml (363 words)

	FAO - COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although, on average, the intensities of hurricanes have hardly changed during the past three decades, their frequency appears to be on the increase.
		Tropical storms, hurricanes and ice storms can all affect forest resources, directly through the impact of high winds and ice, which destroy trees, or indirectly through flood damage or mud slides which affect forest health and growth.
		Women also tend to stay in the home due to the cultural/religious practice of purdah, whereby a woman is discouraged from moving freely in public, and thus going to a cyclone shelter unaccompanied by her husband is a cultural barrier.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/MEETING/003/X9178e.HTM (6605 words)

	1999 ATCR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hurricane Dora passed roughly 200 miles south of Hawaii island (Figure 1-07E-2).
		Hurricane Dora crossed 180 degrees longitude and was downgraded to a tropical storm (50 kt) on Joint Typhoon Warning Center's first warning at 201500Z August.
		Hurricane Dora passed south of the Island of Hawaii with a max intensity of 100 kt.
	www.npmoc.navy.mil /jtwc/atcr/1999atcr/ch1/chap1_page39.html (321 words)

	News4Jax.com - Weather - Hurricanes: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
		Hurricanes are nature's way of reducing the earth's excessive heat through rainfall and by transporting it toward cooler regions of the planet.
		Hurricane Dora in 1964 devastated the northeast Florida coastline, and caused flooding, blew over hundreds of trees and knocked out power for thousands.
		Hurricane winds are rare here because most hurricanes reach us weakened to tropical storm strength by moving over land over the Florida peninsula.
	www.news4jax.com /weather/3642837/detail.html (856 words)

	Hurricane Dora
		Of course, hurricanes being what they are and Jacksonville's long history of being spared at the last minute, none of us were really sure that it was actually going to hit!
		So most of the more difficult physical labor in preparing for the hurricane fell to me. I taped the windows and removed whatever I could find on the outside that might become dangerous in high winds.
		Hurricane Donna had paid us a visit four years earlier, this time we had a battery operated radio with plenty of batteries.
	members.fortunecity.com /northsider/dora.html (790 words)

	CBS News \| Hurricane Misses Army Island \| December 13, 1999 05:19:14
		No one was on the island when Hurricane Dora passed about 75 miles south of the atoll Tuesday night.
		However, after Hurricane John swept through the atoll five years ago, city terns, which make up 80 percent of the local bird population, recolonized within days, said Dave Johnson of the Pacific Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
		The 1994 hurricane caused up to $15 million in damage and forced a one-month shutdown of the incinerator.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/08/17/national/main56239.shtml (427 words)

	Nassau County Record: 21 Sept 1989: Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As I write, the forecasters say Hurricane Hugo is heading northwest from the Caribbean with murder in his eye.
		Or he could decide there’s no better way to mark the 25th anniversary of Hurricane Dora than to visit her old stomping grounds — including Nassau County.
		People who have lived here a long time, even if their house is right on the coast, seem to be taking the approaching hurricane in stride.
	home.earthlink.net /~rcollins/writ/1989/0921ncr.html (841 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 1159)
		Similar to the Atlantic hurricane season, one of the major factors in eastern Pacific hurricane development is the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate phenomenon (El Niño/ La Niña).
		NOAA’s Experimental hurricane outlook for the eastern Pacific region is expected to become official beginning with the 2005 season.
		The Eastern Pacific Hurricane Outlook is a product of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, NOAA Hurricane Research Division and the NOAA National Hurricane Center.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories/s1159.htm (449 words)

	Hurricane Dennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was quite dark in the vicinity of Dennis, no surprise in a hurricane: full of drenching rains.
		Today the hurricane did not have the classic "stadium effect" which is seen in only the most organized and mature hurricanes, which we recently saw in Hurricane Dora.
		We flew over 100 miles away from the hurricane to map out the extent of the damaging winds in each direction.
	www.datasync.com /~hhunters/dennis1.htm (465 words)

	Welcome to Hurricane Dora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1999, Hurricane Dora provided the 53rd some of the most spectacular vistas of the hurricane season thus far.
		Dora began in the Eastern North Pacific, and became a named tropical storm on the 8th of August.
		As it continued its trek westward towards Hawaii, the squadron began to fly Dora.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageFullText/0,13476,701318,00.html (89 words)

	NHC Advisory Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		AT 11 PM HST...0900Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE DORA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 16.8 NORTH...LONGITUDE 177.1 WEST OR ABOUT 500 MILES WEST OF JOHNSTON ISLAND.
		DORA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NORTHWEST NEAR 16 MPH...26 KM/HR...AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
		DORA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 18 MPH...30 KM/HR...AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 75 MPH...120 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS.
	www.nhc.noaa.gov /archive/1999/pub/PEP0799.054.html (257 words)

	Hurricane Prediction Now, and Then
		One with fast access to all sorts of sophisticated and current Atlantic hurricane model data, satellite imagery, and more is at atwc.org.
		With the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season having officially ended Nov. 30, 2003, NOAA hurricane specialists said the above-normal 2003 Atlantic hurricane season produced 14 tropical storms, of which 7 became hurricanes and 3 became major hurricanes (Fabian, Isabel and Kate).
		The hurricanes that had once surprised and confounded Columbus were now familiar—and understood, so it was believed.
	www.sailmag.com /features/hurricaneLinks (975 words)

	SeaWinds clocks hurricane Dora's wind speeds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The SeaWinds instrument onboard NASA's new QuikScat ocean- viewing satellite captured this image of Hurricane Dora in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean on August 10, as it was blowing at speeds of nearly 40 meters per second (90 miles per hour).
		The image shows surface wind speed (colored background) and wind direction (arrows) in the vicinity of the hurricane, which was centered near 14.5 degrees north latitude and 117.8 degrees west longitude.
		Coupled with other satellite measurements of cloud patterns, water vapor and rain, the data are contributing to scientists' ability to predict the intensity, location and movements of hurricanes and other severe marine weather patterns.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/99/qsdora.html (253 words)

	Strengthen The Good
		Mary is in for $1,000, asking that her part of the match go to these charities: $200 to the Salvation Army, $200 to UJC, $200 to the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Fund, $200 to Feed the Children, and $200 to Soldier's Angels.
		for the victims of Hurricane Charley, for Debi Faris, for the Brent Woodall Foundation, and for the students of Petrzalka.
		Since Debi started her work with the burials of Matthew, Nathan and Dora, she and her charity have worked to provide the dignity of a proper burial to 68 abandoned infants.
	www.strengthenthegood.com (12530 words)

	Hurricanes and Stormy Weather
		The worst hurricane and worst disaster, in terms of death toll, was the
		When I was quite small, maybe about three or four, a hurricane or tropical storm flooded our yard very badly.
		Hurricane Donna hit the Florida Keys and then swept up the coast.
	members.fortunecity.com /northsider/weather2.html (882 words)

	Lake City Reporter - Local
		On Sept. 12, the Lake City Reporter will publish a special section commemorating the 40th anniversary of Hurricane Dora.
		For this section, The Reporter wants to hear your Hurricane Dora memories.
		Any readers with stories or photographs they're willing to share from the aftermath that could be used in this special hurricane section are encouraged to call 754-0425 or email rroughton@lakecityreporter.com by Sept. 7.
	www.lakecityreporter.com /articles/2004/08/29/news/local/news05.txt (153 words)

	New Hurricane Zorro Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		-Sustained Hurricane force winds experienced from Flagler county to south Georgia
		On May 11th Hurricane Zorro is located still far out in the Atlantic and its track is to the Northwest.
		At this time it is shaping up to be very large and powerful storm, packing winds over 130 miles per hour.
	www.dca.state.fl.us /bpr/preparedness/2000Hurex/NewZorropg.htm (466 words)

	August 27
		Power was applied to the launch vehicle September 2, and Subsystem Functional Verification Tests (SSFVT) began September 3.
		When forecasts indicated that Hurricane Dora would strike Cape Kennedy, both stages of GLV-2 were deerected on September 8 and secured in the Missile Assembly Building.
		Hurricane Ethel subsequently threatened the area, and both stages remained in the hanger until September 14, when they were returned to complex 19 and reerected.
	www.astronautix.com /thisday/august27.htm (2873 words)

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