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HurricaneReported In Atlantic: MIAMI. Fla., Aug. 15. (UP) — The weather bureau reported to 'day that the first hurricane of the 11951 season, with winds of 100 miles an hour, has boiled up in jthe Leeward Islands some 1,650 | miles southeast of Miami, i The hurricane was moving in a i northwest or west-northwesterly | direction at- about 15 miles an hour.; Reconnaissance aircraft from ■Miami located tl\e storm at 11:30 a.m. -at latitude 14.7' north /andj longitude 59.9 west or about 701 miles east of Fort de France, Martinique.• It was the second hurricane of the year but the first of the official tropical storm season in the Caribbean and South Atlantic areas, ;The first hurricane, a freak, was spawned east of the Florida coast and blew itself out in the North Atlantic in early June.The San Juan, Puerto Rico, weather bureau ordered hurricane warnings hoisted from Martinique to Antigua in the Leeward Is-, lands. Storm warnings were displayed for the rest of the Lee-jward Islands.! Winds were 100 miles an hour near the center and 40 miles an hour in a radius of 60 miles, the weather bureau added.
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 15, 1951
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