The Daily Independent Kannapolis North Carolina 1955-09-20 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.
1955. Hurricanes Connie and Diane (1955) Hurricane Connie formed on August 3, 1955 starting as a tropical storm.
2009.Jill, John. Hurricane Diane was one of three hurricanes to hit the North Carolina coast during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season. 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. 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. 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). 315-326. 2009. These low numbers are a tribute to the effectiveness of the warnings and precautionary measures taken by the government and private agencies such as the Red Cross. Home > History > Featured Storms > Storms in the 1950s. 1959- … 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. With the additional rainfall from Ione (Figure 4), many rivers reached stages not seen again until Hurricane Floyd in 1999.Strong winds accompanied Hurricane Ione with Cherry Point recording sustained winds of 75 mph with gusts to 107 mph. Morehead City recorded a surge of 3.6 feet, while further south at Wrightsville Beach, a storm tide of 5.3 feet was observed.
Other areas also incurred significant damage. Hurricane Ione developed in an easterly wave which passed through the Cape Verde Islands on September 6, 1955. Hurricanes of 1955. Copyright © 2010-2015, University of Rhode Island. NOAA. In little over a week, two hurricanes passed by Southern New England in August 1955 producing major flooding over much of the region. Storms in the 1920s. Hurricanes Connie and Diane 1955 These two hurricanes must be mentioned together. But Hurricane Diane was bad — almost as bad as Hurricane Carol, which hammered New England the year before. Despite the wind and massive flooding, only 7 fatalities occurred in North Carolina from Hurricane Ione. Thankfully, drier and cooler air started to be entrained into the storms circulation, and Ione weakened to a minimal hurricane as it approached the North Carolina coast (Figure 2). Ione gradually intensified as it moved almost due west as it crossed the Atlantic and reached hurricane intensity during the night of September 14. Dunn, Gordon and Banner Miller. One interesting aspect of Hurricane Ione was that it was the first hurricane to be observed by the newly-installed Cape Hatteras radar. For some 35 hours, on September 18 through early morning on September 20, the eye was under radar surveillance. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. 1999. Monthly Weather Review. 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.
25 Aug. 1955. They struck the North Carolina coast only five days apart, and the rains from Connie set the stage for the devastating floods caused by Diane. Pp. Please select one of the following:Hurricane Ione developed in an easterly wave which passed through the Cape Verde Islands on September 6, 1955. Storms in the 1950s. The city of Woonsocket, RI was heavily damaged as a dam broke to the north west of the city, pushing a 6.1 m (20 ft) wall of water down the Blackstone River. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998.
Ione was the third hurricane to make landfall in eastern North Carolina within six weeks and the fourth within eleven months. Storms in the 1930s. Hurricane Diane might not have caused so much damage had Hurricane Connie not struck a few days earlier. Barnes, Jay. Hurricane Case Studies. 1938: With no computers to track tropical systems, the hurricane of 1938 was a worst-case scenario.