Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Hurricane Lumbers Toward Coast -- Map shows approximate location and direction of the season's fourth storm, tropical hurricane Diane, about 525 miles east of St. Augustine, Fla., and moving at a brisk 14 miles an hour on a west north-west course this afternoon. Warnings were posted as follows: Hurricane alert and northern storm warnings from Washington, N.C., to Virginia capes (shaded area); northwest storm warnings from Brunswick south to St. Augustine (underlined). The Miami Weather Bureau said storm was on a course that will bring the center to South Carolina coast probably late Tuesday.
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Hurricane Lumbers Toward Coast -- Map shows approximate location and direction of the season's fourth storm, tropical hurricane Diane, about 525 miles east of St. Augustine, Fla., and moving at a brisk 14 miles an hour on a west north-west course this afternoon. Warnings were posted as follows: Hurricane alert and northern storm warnings from Washington, N.C., to Virginia capes (shaded area); northwest storm warnings from Brunswick south to St. Augustine (underlined). The Miami Weather Bureau said storm was on a course that will bring the center to South Carolina coast probably late Tuesday.
Associated Press · [ca. August 1955]
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[Information from item housing] Weather: Hurricane: Diane, Aug. 1955: Wirephotos
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