Editing Hurricane Ione (section)

==Meteorological history==
{{storm path|Ione 1955 track.png|alt=The storm forms east if the Lesser Antilles. The storm path of Ione takes it over the Lesser Antilles as a tropical storm and then it heads between west-northwest towards North Carolina. It becomes a major hurricane north of The Bahamas and makes landfall in North Carolina as a Category&nbsp;1. The storm then hooks sharply northeast overland then races off the coast of North Carolina toward the extreme Northern Atlantic.}}
A tropical wave moved through [[Cape Verde]] on September 6. On September 11, Ione developed into a tropical depression.<ref name="rainfall"/> Ione remained weak for the next few days, and then began to steadily intensify as it moved north of the [[Lesser Antilles]], reaching hurricane strength on September 15.<ref name="rainfall"/> Conditions were favorable for additional development, and Ione peaked with winds of {{convert|140|mph|km/h}} on September 18 while north of the [[Bahamas]].<ref name="mwr"/>

Drier and cooler air gradually became entrained in Ione's circulation, and the storm weakened into a Category 2 hurricane at the time of its [[Wilmington, North Carolina]], landfall on September 19, which made Ione the third hurricane to hit the state in six weeks and fourth in 11&nbsp;months.<ref name="rainfall"/>  Ione was the first tropical cyclone to be observed on the Cape Hatteras radar during landfall and was one of the first observed to make small-scale oscillations within its track.<ref name="smallscale">{{cite journal|last=Jordan|first=Harold M.|author2=Stowell, David J.|title=Some Small-Scale Features of the Track of Hurricane Ione |journal=Monthly Weather Review|volume=83|issue=9|date=September 1955|pages=210–216|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/083/mwr-083-09-0210.pdf|access-date=2 October 2010|bibcode=1955MWRv...83..210J|doi=10.1175/1520-0493(1955)083<0210:SSFOTT>2.0.CO;2}}</ref>  The storm weakened to a tropical storm over land but restrengthened to a Category&nbsp;2 hurricane over the northwestern Atlantic.<ref name="HURDAT"/>  Ione continued northeastward and became an [[extratropical cyclone]] on September 21. The extratropical storm crossed over [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] and was last seen on September 24 moving across the North Atlantic.<ref name="advisories">{{cite web|title=Ione's Bulletins and Advisories|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/hurricanes/Qc9452i66b81955.pdf|publisher=US Weather Bureau|access-date=2 October 2010}}</ref>