Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, August 27, 1993                   TAG: 9308270042
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MIAMI                                LENGTH: Short

EMILY 1ST HURRICANE OF SEASON

The transformation of Tropical Depression 5 into Tropical Storm Emily, then Hurricane Emily took only three hours and came two days after South Florida residents marked a wary first anniversary of Hurricane Andrew.

Emily was centered at latitude 27.2 north, longitude 61.4 north - or about 415 miles south-southeast of Bermuda - Thursday afternoon. It had top sustained winds of 78 mph and was moving west at 4 mph. Strengthening was expected during the next 24 hours, forecasters said.

Emily was too far out in the Atlantic to be able to predict where it would wind up, said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in suburban Coral Gables. The storm was 1,200 to 1,300 miles east of central Florida, he said. - Associated Press