| Hurricane Diane 1955
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 On August 10, a cyclonic circulation was noted northeast of the Leeward Islands with tropical storm force winds.Reconnaissance aircraft found the tropical storm the next day, which had not increased in intensity. On the night of the 11th, the system turned northeast and rapidly intensified. By the 12th, Diane was a major hurricane, though its eye was elongated elongated significantly to the northeast, possibly due to its northeast propagation around a nearby upper cyclone. Its cyclonic path ended on the 13th, when Diane resumed its west-northwest track. It slowly turned northwest, striking near Wilmington, North Carolina on the 17th. Floods in New England led to Diane becoming the first hurricane with $1 billion in damage, with about 200 eople losing their lives in the flood from Pennsylvania east-northeast through southern New England. The rainfall map below for Hurricane Diane was created by Paul Kocin.
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