Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MIAMI--Hurricane Hugo quickened its pace toward the Eastern Seaboard yesterday as residents gathered supplies and made evacuation plans, while violence and looting broke out on the shattered islands in the storm's wake...
...Hugo's center was 550 miles southeast of Savannah, Ga., at 27.4 degrees north latitude and 73.6 west longitude and it was moving northwest at 17 mph, up from 12 mph earlier...
...Hugo was moving at 15 m.p.h. to the west-northwest. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 75 miles from its center...
...Hugo's center was near latitude 19.2 degrees north and longitude 66.7 west, or about 70 miles northwest of San Juan, said the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables...
Meteorologist Jesse Moore at the NationalHurricane Center said it was too early to tellwhether Hugo would strike the U.S. mainland. Hesaid the storm was expected to be offsouth-eastern Bahamas by tomorrow and "after that,it's anybody's guess...