No details of the other Haitian victims have so far been released. “A power line was hanging across the road and an 18-wheeler truck ran into it and got hung up in it and the Benton officer got there to help him,” Whittington said. Where are the storms headed? Another fatality was reported in Texas on Friday, and three people died in Louisiana. Find the latest breaking news and information on the top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. The first responders were at the scene of two accidents on Interstate 27 about 8.30am when a vehicle traveling south crossed into the median and hit them. While most of Hamilton’s letter addresses the storm as an urgent call for spiritual awakening, he didn’t hold back in portraying the fury of the storm itself: It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place. About 950 cancellations were reported at O’Hare International and more than 50 flights had been canceled at Midway International. When clustered by decade, their analysis suggests the stretch from 1772 to 1781 — including the Hamilton hurricane — is tied for the busiest. “The track would suggest that the storm made a jog to the northwest as it passed over St. Croix but soon turned westward and apparently made a landfall in northeast Puerto Rico,” Chenoweth said.

First published on Sat 11 Jan 2020 16.22 GMT. Tornadoes in Mississippi and Louisiana have caused "catastrophic" damage and at least seven deaths after touching down Sunday, emergency officials say. Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the US and up into the … One study by Chenoweth and Dmitry Divine analyzed the tropical cyclone history of the Lesser Antilles from 1690 to 2007. “Impacts still very possible from Tropical Storm Laura later this week.”. The storm is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico, southeast of the US state and could well arrive as a hurricane, the national centre has warned.

A woman died in floodwaters in Jacmel, also on the southern coast, while a man and two more women died in and around Port-au-Prince. Lubbock’s police chief, Floyd Mitchell, said drivers should “slow down. Four hurricanes were apparently in progress. Haitian President Jovenel Moïse expressed his condolences to the families of the bereaved on Twitter. Knox penned this brief introduction: The following letter was written the week after the late Hurricane, by a Youth of this Island, to his Father; the copy of it fell by accident into the hands of a gentleman, who, being pleased with it himself, shewed it to others to whom it gave equal satisfaction, and who all agreed that it might not prove unentertaining to the Publick. The island in the Dominican Republic has been battered by the storm so far, while the capital of the country, Santo Domingo, has urged residents to evacuate certain areas. Hurricane tracking maps, current sea temperatures, and more. 1k cases reported.

Then ensued a sudden and unexpected interval, which lasted about an hour. Parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana were under flash flood warnings or watches on Saturday. All things considered, the Hamilton hurricane ranks as one of the five strongest Atlantic storms in Chenoweth’s database to make an island landfall before the 1900s.

Forecasters also say that Laura may swing east towards Louisiana, and it could be the first time in recorded history that the state has been hit by two back-to-back hurricanes. On Saturday, a similar declaration was made for Puerto Rico. In Tennessee, Memphis Light, Gas and Water said about 23,000 customers were without power on Saturday morning. Hamilton’s own hurricane description was dated Sept. 6, 1772, though not published until Oct. 3 in St. Croix’s first newspaper, the Royal Danish American Gazette (founded just two years earlier). The Atlantic was exceptionally active on the day of the St. Croix landfall (Aug. 31, 1772), Chenoweth said. newspaper archive. Hurricane: The tropical storms could merge, Hurricane: Marco is gathering in the Gulf, UK storm warning: Tornado threat as hurricane-force winds lash Britain, Hurricane tracker: The FIVE tropical systems churning over the world, Hurricane: The storm has already hit the Caribbean, Furlough warning issued for those who used scheme - key dates to note.

Hill was pronounced dead. The National Hurricane Center has also warned a second Tropical Storm, Laura is also projected to hit this week. Royal POLL: Who is the most hardworking member of the Royal Family? A great part of the buildings throughout the Island are levelled to the ground, almost all the rest very much shattered; several persons killed and numbers utterly ruined; whole families running about the streets, unknowing where to find a place of shelter; the sick exposed to the keeness of water and air without a bed to lie upon, or a dry covering to their bodies; and our harbours entirely bare. Tropical Storm Marco is expected to hit Louisiana on Monday as forecasters issue storm surge and hurricane warnings for the state. The NWS issued a winter weather advisory, flood watch and lakeshore flood warning for the Chicago metropolitan area for Saturday and a winter storm warning for adjacent areas of north-western Illinois. Sat 11 Jan 2020 20.50 EST. When read with a modern eye, Hamilton’s writings offer a few clues on the meteorology behind this storm: * He clearly conveys the passage of a hurricane’s calm eye, with fierce winds on either side: It began about dusk, at North, and raged very violently till ten o’clock. Officials said no one was injured. He also asked Donald Trump for a federal emergency declaration. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, The firefighters, 39-year-old Lt David Hill and 30-year-old Matthew Dawson, were transported to a local hospital. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Chenoweth estimated the eye was only 4 to 5 miles wide during its slow passage over Antigua and St. Kitts.

Damage reported in St. Kitts, Antigua, St. Thomas and St. Croix was consistent with a major hurricane, according to Chenoweth. It’s a fitting status for a hurricane whose reverberations continue to ring out in story and song today.

In Antigua, the British Royal Navy reported a wind switch consistent with an eye passage at English Harbour on the night of Aug. 30, with a calm period lasting for 45 minutes. “The intensity forecast remains tricky with Marco due to its small size and marginal environment. Source: National Hurricane Centre. The hurricane — probably at least a Category 3 in St. Croix, according to a leading weather historian — prompted a teenage Alexander Hamilton to write an evocative description published in a local newspaper.

Marco strengthened to a hurricane on Sunday, with sustained winds of up to 75mph (120km/h), and is moving north between Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. “Our best forecast at this time is that the strongest winds will be confined to the coast, and that Marco will then weaken faster than most hurricanes do over the swamps of Louisiana due to the shear.”. Heavy rains have also battered Cuba and the US territory of Puerto Rico. The National Weather Service in New Orleans also said: “Very minor changes early this morning, with impacts still expected across the area from Tropical Storm Marco. Now working on a 500-year history of North American tropical cyclones, Chenoweth has published multiple peer-reviewed papers. “We are dealing with not only two potential storms in the next few hours but we are also dealing with Covid-19.”. Meanwhile in Cuba, many residents in the country's eastern regions have been evacuated and housed in shelters or safer buildings on higher ground. Chernow said the likely go-between was Hugh Knox, a minister at the church that Hamilton attended as well as a part-time journalist at the Gazette. In neighbouring Dominican Republic, a 37-year-old woman and her nine-year-old son died when a wall in their home west of the capital, Santo Domingo, collapsed during heavy rains. The storm was probably stronger when it hit St. Croix, and stronger still the night before. Sheriff Julian Whittington said a truck driver and a Benton police officer had a close call after being shocked by a downed power line.

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It was the fact that Hamilton wrote his way off the island where he grew up.

An observer in Antigua reported a sea-level pressure reading of 27.2 inches. Southwestern Electric Power reported nearly 5,000 customers in east Texas were without power.

But “the track of the hurricane through the islands meant that he was just one of many writers who got a chance to describe the hurricane effects at each of their locations.”. On Alabama’s Gulf coast, the NWS warned of high winds and flooding and the potential for 10ft waves on beaches, where northern visitors escaping the cold are a common sight during the winter.

The storm had also ripped through Puerto Rico where over 100,000 were left without water and a further 200,000 were left without electricity. Commenting on Marco, the National Hurricane Center said: “Hurricane conditions, life-threatening storm surge, and heavy rainfall are expected from Marco along portions of the Gulf Coast beginning on Monday, and Hurricane and Storm Surge warnings have been issued.

That’s the hip-hop narrative.”. Meanwhile the wind was shifting round to the South West point, from whence it returned with redoubled fury and continued so ’till near three o’clock in the morning. * Hamilton notes that “the rain was surprizingly salt” (sic). A storm surge of 1 to 3 feet is expected, in addition to 2 to 3 inches of rain and wind gusts of up to 70 mph. order back issues and use the historic Daily Express In Oil City, the Caddo parish coroner’s office said, Raymond Holden was in bed when a tree fell on his home, crushing him. Lightning from Friday’s storms was suspected of causing two house fires in the north Texas cities of Burleson and Mansfield. “There are some models that briefly relax the shear today, which will likely be enough of a change to allow Marco to reach hurricane strength. A man drowned in Oklahoma and the storms even touched the midwest with at least one death on an icy highway in Iowa. About 35,000 were without power in Louisiana. The positions for Marco and Laura are at 0300 GMT Monday.
Based on these accounts, Chenoweth estimates that the storm took a classic west-northwest course across the northern Leeward Islands into the Greater Antilles, one that led to multiple apparent landfalls. There are also fears the neighbouring state of Mississippi could also be hit by the tropical storms. The US National Hurricane Centre has warned that back-to-back hurricanes arriving in the US within days of one another could result in prolonged periods of hazardous weather.

The winds were so strong, the home had been moved 200ft from its foundations. Outages were reported from Texas to Michigan. The Oklahoma department of transportation reported that portions of several highways in the south-eastern part of the state were closed due to flooding.