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Df.oembeb 1947
MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW
Table 1.—Meteorological data for hurricane of Sept. 10-19, 1947
[All times eastern standard]
Station	Bate of observation	Lowest pressure reported (inches)*	Time of lowest pressure	Maximum wind velocity for a 5-minute period		Time of maximum velocity	Maximum wind velocity for a 1-minute period		Time of .extreme velocity	Velocity of extreme gust	Miscellaneous
	19	29.69		SE	54	12.-0G a		SE	67	12:11 a 			6*ft. tide, 5 a. m. In eye of the storm, 3 p. n 12-ft. tide, 11 a. m. 12*ft. tide, 11 m. 3.94-fL tide.
	IS	28.69						96	3:10 p			3 IX	
	19	29.10	11:30 a		NE	S100	10:00 a						
	19			E	* 90	10:00 a						
	19	29.98	7:40 a 		NW	66	6:28 a,			72			
	17	29,29	1:46 p		SW	68	2:25 p		SW	76	2:25 p 			
	17	29.82					ENE	43	6:18 p			60	
	17	28.81	7:45 p		35		3:30 p					’60-65	Flooded, 2 ft 1-hr. lull.
	17	28.22								S * 127	
	17	28.82	10:15 p		>85-90		10:15 p		NNW	* 90		NNW *110	
	17	27.97	11:25 a		NW	121	9:57 a		ENE	155	12:56 p			No lull.
	16	28.18	2:30 p					NW	*160			
Key West, Fla				18	29.52								58	
	17	28.63		NE	34	7:57 p		ENE	46	8:01 p	ENE 75	
	17	29.71	235p					ESE	54	7:30 p		85	
	17	28.72		W	85	11:00 a	-	SSW	>90	2:00 p...			
Mobile, Ala			19	29.54	5:20 a 		E	43		E	49		*55-60	
	17	29.09	5.-00 p			NE	52	5:00 p		NE	92	5:00 p			
	17	28.80	11:45 p		NW	100	8:00 p			NW	105	8:05 p			Lull 8-10 p. m.
	19	28.61	10:47 a						* 110	Ifhflft a	N *125	
	19	29. 54 29.85	4.-20 a..		SB	61	6:00 a		SE	91	6:00 a			4.8-ft. tide, 9 a. m.
	18			E	66	12.-05 a		E	75	12.-05 a 				
	18	28.67								S *120	Flooded, 3 ft. 4.08-in. ram.
	18	29.53	3:30 a — —	NE	34	3:12 a		NE	38			
	17	29.02	10:30 a- 					NNE	*100		*110	
Reported extremes			27.97		NW	121		NW	160			
											
1 Reduced to sea level.	■ Estimated.
bankment or overflowing in sections not protected by embankments.
The American Red Cross released a list of 34 fatalities for these two States: 22 deaths in Mississippi, 12 in Louisiana. On the Gulf coast, 1,642 homes were destroyed and upward of 25,000 others damaged.
A tabular listing of the lowest barometric pressures and highest wind velocities observed at selected stations in Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana during this hurricane is contained in Table 1.
VII.	Tropical disturbance oj September 20-26.—This disturbance developed in the eastern Caribbean south of Cuba on September 20 from an easterly wave. Moving northwestward, it crossed western Cuba during the night of the 21st without becoming a well-defined circulation, although it was preceded by an area of squalls with winds up to 40-50 m. p. h. for a distance of 200 miles or more to the northward. After it entered the Gulf of Mexico west of Havana, it slowly increased in intensity and thereafter had a fairly well-defined center as it moved up the Florida west coast and passed inland between Tampa and Cedar Keys, between 5 and 6 p. m. on the 23d. Winds of about 60 m. p. h. were reported along the west Florida coast from Sarasota northward to near Cedar KeyB, and squalls of 40-60 m. p. h. were quite general over the entire peninsula.
The lowest pressures reported were 989.8 mb. (29.23 inches) at Cedar Keys and 989.5 mb. (29.22 inches) at Saint Leo, as the center passed inland between these two communities. Rainfall was heavy throughout the State and greatly aggravated the flood situation already existing from the earlier hurricane and previous rains. The storm lost force rapidly as it moved northeastward. It passed west of Jacksonville during the night of the 23d and on the following morning was located west of Savannah and Charleston. Its remnants moved off into the Atlantic between the North Carolina and the Virginia Capes on the morning of the 25th.
A series of small tornadoes occurred on the northern edge of this storm as it advanced northward over Florida. Two or three occurred in the west coast area around Tampa, one near Ocala, and four in aDd around Jacksonville. These tornadoes were small, short-lived, and did
Note.—Under column “velocity of extreme gust/* where no direction is gi direction was not reported.
not cause extensive damage. There was some dt along the beaches from Bradenton to Tarpon Spring slight damage to power and communication lines, damage was estimated at $100,000.
VIII.	Tropical disturbance oj October 6-7.—A moc and partly developed easterly wave disturbance hi inception over the Bahama Islands and Florida Stra October 6. It advanced northward and then nortl ward and moved inland near Brunswick, Ga., durii night of October 6-7. Highest winds reported Beaufort force 9 (47-54 m. p. h.) from ships o: Georgia coast during the afternoon of the 6th. strongest wind along the coast was about 50 m. p. h damage was reported.
IX.	Severe hurricane oj October 9-15.—This storr first noted as it developed on the intertropical convei zone which had moved north of the Isthmus of Pai On the 9th the storm was centered off the coast of Gracias, Nicaragua. During the night of the 1( crossed Cuba a snort distance west of Havana as a n ate storm, with the strongest winds reported as gu 57 m. p. h., at Batista Field. After entering the G Mexico, and within a short period of 3 to 4 houn storm's winds rapidly increased to hurricane force Dry Tortugas the anemometer became inoperati 12:30 p. m. on the 10th, while the instrument was tering 84 m. p. h., and the observer reported that 1 winds were experienced during the hour following reading. On the night of October 11-12 the hun passed over the extreme southern portion of the F Peninsula. Although at this stage the storm was a< panied by a small center of hurricane winds, then little wind damage as it passed over swamplands froi time it entered the west coast north of Cape Sable u reached the east coast communities between Miam Palm Beach.
The Weather Bureau Office in downtown recorded 62 m. p. h. for the fastest wind speed at a. m., and a low pressure of 998.0 mb. (29.47 inchi the center passed a short distance to the northwest the Airport Station, about 7 miles closer to the s center, the lowest pressure recorded was 995.3 mb. ( inches). In moving off the east coast into the At