The hurricane season began on June 15, 1955, ended on November 15, 1955, it was above average, with 13 recorded tropical cyclones. Connie was first detected as a tropical storm over the tropical Atlantic on August 3, 1955.
Part of the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Ione / aɪ ˈ oʊ n / was a strong, Category 4 hurricane that affected North Carolina in September 1955, bringing high winds and significant rainfall. These dates conventionally delimit the time of year when most tropical cyclones form in northeast Pacific Ocean. The season officially began on June 15, and nine days later the first named storm developed. Hurricane Diane was one of three hurricanes to hit the North Carolina coast during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season (Figure 1). The season totaled with 1181 deaths and 1.8$ billion in damages, most of it from the two Category 5s of the season, Elena and Frederic. This small hurricane killed 35 persons and left 20.000 homeless.
It came on the heels of Hurricanes Connie and Diane, and compounded problems already caused by … OVERVIEW. The Caribbean too, was affected by the hurricanes of the season. It was an above-average season.
Hurricane Ione, September 11-21, 1955 . The 1954 Atlantic hurricane season resulted in over $750 million in damage, the most of any season at the time. Before its Mexican landfall, Frederick killed 24 people in the southern Caribbean. The season was especially deadly in Mexico. Moving west-northwest, the depression became Tropical Storm Diane two days later. The season totaled with 1181 deaths and 1.8$ billion in damages, most of it from the two Category 5s of the season, Elena and Frederic. Hurricane Ione developed in an easterly wave which passed through the Cape Verde Islands on September 6, 1955. Hurricane Hilda was a strong Category 3 hurricane that was the second in a succession of three hurricanes to strike near Tampico, Mexico.The eighth named storm of the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season, Hilda formed from a tropical wave on September 10 near the Lesser Antilles.It quickly intensified while moving westward into a small hurricane, and it crossed over southeastern Cuba on September 13. It was a below-average season in which eight tropical cyclones formed, of which three became hurricanes. Ione gradually intensified as it moved almost due west as it crossed the Atlantic and reached hurricane intensity during the night of September 14. The 1955 Atlantic hurricane season an inactive season in the number of storms, but was extremely deadly and costly. The system began as a tropical wave over the Atlantic Ocean, which developed into a tropical depression on August 7, 1955. Hurricane Bob caused 13 deaths in Haiti and 10$ million in damages. The 1995 Atlantic hurricane season is the third-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, tied with 1887, 2010, 2011, and 2012, and only behind the 1933 and the 2005 season.It is also considered to be the start of an ongoing era of high-activity tropical cyclone formation. Only Tropical Storm David didnt affect land. Of these hurricanes, two became major hurricanes. On September 22, 1955, Hurricane Janet past south of Barbados with winds just over 110 mph.
In an average season, ten tropical cyclones form, of which five become hurricanes. Five of the season's eight tropical cyclones developed in the Gulf of Mexico, the most … The season was especially deadly in Mexico. It moved west-northwest for several days, reaching hurricane strength several hundred miles northeast of the Leeward Islands on the August 5, 1955. Storm image simulations are available for all storms that reached hurricane intensity.