1958-1961. Local Marine Forecast Railroad officials said the roadbed of the railroad was washed out and no attempt would be made to travel to Scranton. Area Rivers The E. Keller Company and Franklin High School in Williamsport. Diane 1955 rainfall.gif 787 × 871; 31 KB Flood Damage in Moosic, Pennsylvania.jpg 1,583 × 1,122; 155 KB Hurricane Diane August 17, 1955 weather map.jpg 639 × 509; 56 KB Questions? © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. Storm Ready Becca Blackwell and Michelle Beck in Hurricane Diane. (U.S. Army Air Force photo), A man wades through flood waters from Hurricane Diane, Aug. 20, 1955. Monitor National Marine Sanctuary 1. According to National Weather Service records, Hurricane Diane caused the most destructive flooding eastern Pennsylvania had ever seen and killed more than 40 people in eastern Pennsylvania. Download Image of Flooding at Northampton Street in Easton, Pennsylvania during Hurricane Diane. - ...While Pennsylvania was hardest hit … Hurricane Diane followed just behind Hurricane Connie, becoming the second hurricane of the 1955 North Atlantic Hurricane Season. By . Pa Med J. Get this from a library! The hurricane reached its peak intensity at Category 3 status on August 12 with 120 mph sustained winds. The track roadbed was washed out. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA - 1955 - Hurricane Diane - NINE DEATHS REPORTED IN EASTERN PA. 650 YOUNGSTERS MAROONED; RAIN REACHES 9 INCHES. Route 309 was reported flooded between Philadelphia and Allentown. Natural Disasters in NePA--Hurricane Diane. The name Diane was later retired. This collection contains rare photos, video interviews with witnesses, TV … (Bell Telephone Company). (US Army Air Force photo). Cocorahs. The two trains of the DL&W were stranded at Cresco and Tobyhanna, smack in the middle of the Pocono Mountains. Climate Plots, Observations Download Hurricane Diane Books now!Available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Region 1. Surf Zone Forecast/Rip Currents Hurricane Preparedness, NOAA Links It stranded two passenger trains of the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad in the Pocono Mountains. A Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad passenger train headed from Hoboken to Scranton to Buffalo, was stranded in the Pocono Mountains at Paradise, west of Stroudsburg. Hurricane Diane might not have caused so much damage had Hurricane Connie not struck a few days earlier. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Hurricane Diane was one of three hurricanes to hit the North Carolina coast during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season. 1. Hurricane Diane in 1955 dumped more than 10 inches of rain in eastern Pennsylvania, Aug. 18-19. Gov. National Weather Service, State College, PA 16803 . Please select one of the following: Hurricane Diane was one of three hurricanes to hit the North Carolina coast during the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season (Figure 1). Rainfall amounted to 20 inches in New England over the two-day period when Diane was a tropical storm off the Northeast coast. The scene across Roaring Brook at Scranton's Cedar Avenue bridge were two cables were torn in half and nine others were damaged. [No authors listed] PMID: Free for commercial use, no attribution required. The Harrisburg Weather Bureau placed the center of the storm “somewhere between Lancaster and Baltimore.”, Don Nagle, a repairman from Bethlehem, prepares to establish emergency service for Civil Defense along the Delaware River at Easton. Diane, classified as a hurricane made landfall on August 17, 1955. 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