Hurricane Judith - October 16-19,
1959
A tropical depression formed early on the 17th in the northwest
Caribbean. The system strengthened quickly
into a tropical storm then hurricane later in the day. Early on
the 18th, Judith made landfall as a weakening
tropical storm. The cyclone accelerated eastward across Florida
into the western Atlantic and restrengthened
into a hurricane for a spell before weakening several hundred miles
east of Bermuda. On the graphic below
is the storm total rainfall for Judith, using data
from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North
Carolina.