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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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Key West Weather Bureau reported a hurricane passing 130 miles west and moving north, predicting heavy south-southwest winds during afternoon squalls, with a peak gust of 54 mph at 4:31 p.m. Despite assurances, rumors spread that the storm was turning toward the area.
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"What's the use of telling them? They still won't believe you."
That saying aptly applies to hurricanes. The Key West Weather Bureau, in its noon advisory published in The Citizen yesterday, said that the hurricane had passed at a point 130 miles due west of Key West, and was moving toward the north.
The bureau further advised Key Westers that, during squalls in the afternoon, we would have fairly heavy winds from the south and southwest. The heaviest of the gusts was at 4:31 in the afternoon when the velocity attained was 54 miles an hour.
And what was the result? A report started at least in one neighborhood that the hurricane had turned and was coming this way, despite the assurance from the local Weather Bureau that the storm was at a point west and north of Key West and moving northward.
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Key West
Event Date
Yesterday Afternoon
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heaviest gust of 54 miles per hour at 4:31 p.m.; rumors of hurricane turning toward key west disproven by bureau.
Event Details
The Key West Weather Bureau issued a noon advisory stating the hurricane had passed 130 miles due west of Key West and was moving north, with expected heavy winds from south and southwest during afternoon squalls. A rumor circulated in at least one neighborhood claiming the hurricane had turned and was approaching, contrary to the bureau's report that it was west and north, moving northward.