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1853/01:  No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  No 
track available, only one point. 

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1853/02:  No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  No 
track available, only one point.

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1853/03: No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  
Central pressure measurement of 924 mb with the southern wind-pressure 
relationship gives 132 kt - 130 kt utilized, a major hurricane.  Ludlum
(1963) named this system the "Cape Verde and Cape Hatteras Hurricane
(offshore)".

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1853/04: No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  Storm
is determined to have reached major hurricane status from observations
taken from the ships "Gilbert Gallatin", "Harvester Queen" and "Chesapeake".

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1853/05:  No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  No 
track available, only one point.

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1853/06: No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  Storm
is determined to have reached hurricane status based upon reports from
ships "Samuel and Edward" and "Werada".

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1853/07:  No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  No 
track available, only one point.

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1853/08:  No major changes from Partagas and Diaz's (1995a) analysis.  Storm 
assumed to be stationary for 2 days.  Storm is determined to have reached
hurricane status based upon several ship reports.

1853/08 - REVISION:

00565 10/19/1853 M= 2  8 SNBR=  18 NOT NAMED   XING=0 SSS=0
00565 10/19/1853 M= 4  8 SNBR=  19 NOT NAMED   XING=1 SSS=1
                    *           **                  *     *

00570 10/19*275 785  70    0*275 785  70    0*275 785  70    0*275 785  70    0
00570 10/19*275 785  70    0*280 789  70    0*285 793  80    0*289 796  80    0
                             *** ***          *** ***  **      *** ***  **

00575 10/20*275 785  70    0*275 785  70    0*275 785  70    0*275 785  70    0
00575 10/20*293 799  80    0*297 802  80    0*300 805  90    0*303 807  90    0
            *** ***  **      *** ***  **      *** ***  **      *** ***  **

(The 21st and 22nd are new to HURDAT.)
00577 10/21*306 809  90    0*309 809  90    0*313 806  80    0*317 801  80    0
00579 10/22*321 794  80    0*325 785  80    0*  0   0   0    0*  0   0   0    0

00580 HR  
00580 HR GA1
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Analysis of historical tropical storms and hurricanes impacting Georgia and
Northeast Florida by Sandrik (2001) shows that the hurricane moved northward
to just offshore Georgia and caused hurricane conditions along the Georgia
coast.  This was based upon ship reports and wind reports from Jacksonville,
Brunswick and Charleston.  (The hurricane was previously listed as being
stationary for two days.)

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1853 - Additional Notes:
1.  The tropical storm listed as #9 in 1853 in Partagas and Diaz (1995a) was
not included into the HURDAT because of evidence suggesting that the storm 
did not actually exist.  Partagas and Diaz had found an unsupported reference 
to it in Garcia-Bonnelly (1958), but no other information.

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