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Hurricane Moving AgainstCoast Of North CarolinaLate Tropical Storm Snirls TowardMainland With Winds Lp To 75 MPHMIAMI, Fla., Nov. 10 — (/P) — Hurricane warnings were ordered hoisted from Cape Lookout to Cape Hat-teras on the North Carolina coastline today as a small and unusually late tropical hurricane swirled toward the mainland with 75 mile an hour winds.The Miami Weather Bureau ordered the red and black flags displayed at 9:15 a. m. (EST) and warnedthat *‘every precaution should beThe WeatherWEATHEB rOKECASTLOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY: Clear • nd cold rHis afternoon and tonight with tcattered light /rest in upper Valley tonight. Partly cloudy and atightly warmerThursday and Thursday night. Moderate northerly minds thla afternoon, decreasing tonight and becoming variable Thursday. Maximum temperatures this afternoon. 62-66. minimum tori%ht, 36 in upper Valley. 40 near the coast.EAST TEXAS: Fair and cooler thisafternoon, not quite so cold in northwest portion tonight. Scattered frost tonight with lowest temperatures 32 to 34 In north and central portions, and 34 to 38 In remainder of area except near 40 In coastal sections. Thursday fair and warmer.24Low24HourLastHourB(hNightRamAmarillo..... 4628Atlanta..... 6052.MBig SpringsrgBROWNSVILLE .......2041Buffalo .........5!.32Chicago..... 48:o.41Corpus ChrSsti ......... 70:gDel Rio ..........?oDenver ......28Des Maincs ............ 4430Detroit ............... 5826.35El Paso ............. 5235Fort Worth ....._____ S338Houston .......... . 8f35.23Jacksonville ....._____ 838Kansas City .......... 4f31traceMemphis ........... S'13582taken on the North CarolinaCapes.”To Hit CarolinaIt was expected to hit along the North Caroluia coastline this afternoon.The storm was located about 120 miles southeast of Wilmington. N.C, at 9:15 am. and moving northward at about 20 miles per hour.Cape Lookout is a tiny point jutting into the Atlantic about 75 miles south of Cape Hatteras.Strong GalesThe storm—one of the few to reach hurricane intensity this late in the “season”—was comparatively small in area with its strongest winds on the northeast quadrant. Gale winds, of fiO miles an hour or stronger, spread outward from the center toward the north and east some 100 miles.The area where hurricane warnings were hoisted covers some 75 miles of North Carolina coastline.It was the second time this year that warnings have been displayed in the same area. Early'in the season a tropical storm threatened the North Carolina coast, but veered off into the Atlantic.
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 10, 1948
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