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Saffir-Simpson Scale - Category:
Category One - Minimal
  • Winds: 74-95 mph (64-82 kt or 119-153 km/hr)
  • Storm Surge: Generally 4-5 ft above normal
  • Damage: No real damage to building structures. Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and trees. Some damage to poorly constructed signs. Some coastal road flooding and minor pier damage.


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Weather Almanac

Place: Eastern U.S.
Year: 1958
Event: (19th-22nd) Virginia to New England had 17 to 30 inches of very wet snow. Forty-nine deaths linked to snow; also damage to power lines. Eight hundred people trapped in restaurant along PA turnpike near Morgantown.

Place: Charleston, WV
Year: 1990
Event: Two inches of snow. Five days before, the high had reached 89 degrees.

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