Hurricane Frances Nears NE Caribbean
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Hurricane Frances strengthened as it churned near islands of the northeastern Caribbean with ferocious winds expected to graze Puerto Rico on Tuesday before the storm plows on toward the Bahamas and the southeastern United States.
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Hurricane Frances weakened on Friday, but still caused heavy damage in the Bahamas. At least one death is reported in the Bahamas as a result of the storm.
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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos  - Hurricane Frances battered the Turks and Caicos islands with stinging rains and powerful winds Wednesday, peeling off tin roofs from wooden houses and knocking out power before churning toward the Bahamas and threatened Florida.
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COCOA, Fla.  - Strong winds and whipping rains  began to lash eastern Florida on Saturday as Hurricane Frances,  an enormous storm, crept across the northern Bahamas toward the  United States.
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MIAMI - A menacing Hurricane Frances crept closer to the southeastern United States on Wednesday, with forecasters calling Florida - still cleaning up after Charley - a "prime candidate" to be hit as early as Friday. It would be the worst double hurricane strike on one state in at least a century...
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MIAMI, FL, Sun. Aug. 29, 5 am: A tropical storm watch may be required for portions of the northern Leeward Islands later today as the center of another hurricane, Hurricane Frances inched closer to the islands.
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Hurricane Frances gained strength and became a major hurricane with 115 mph (185 kph) winds in the Atlantic on Friday as it took a path that should carry it north of the vulnerable northeastern Caribbean islands early next week.
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Frances could regain hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall Monday evening on the panhandle of northwest Florida, forecasters say.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Weakened but still bearing  torrential rains and high winds, Tropical Storm Frances moved  into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and again took aim at  Florida's coast, this time its long, northwestern Panhandle.
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Sept. 4, 2004 - At 5 pm EDT, the large eye of Hurricane Frances was located by NOAA radar and surface observations near latitude 26.
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Hurricane Frances battered the  southeastern Bahamas islands with 140 mph winds on Wednesday as  it roared toward the United States and put millions of people  on alert along Florida's heavily populated east coast.
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LUQUILLO, Puerto Rico  - Hurricane Frances brushed Puerto Rico with pounding surf and blustery winds Tuesday as its powerful vortex swirled offshore on a path for the Bahamas and the southeastern United States.
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Hurricane Jeanne is bearing down on the Caribbean nation with 160-kilometre-an-hour winds and drenching rains. In Florida, residents have been alerted that hurricane conditions were possible in the next 36 hours.
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Hurricane Frances battered the southeastern Bahamas islands with 140 mph winds on Wednesday as it roared toward the United States and put millions of people on alert along Florida's heavily populated east coast.
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Hurricane Felix, with top winds near 155 mph, is an "extremely dangerous" hurricane as it nears the coast of northeastern Nicaragua Tuesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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A slightly weakened Hurricane Frances , lingered over the Bahamas on Friday on its resolute path to Florida&#39;s crowded eastern shore.
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Hurricane Jeanne&#39;s winds strengthened to a dangerous 115 mph Saturday as it pounded the Bahamas and hurried toward Florida&#39;s east coast.