The World - News from Sept. 22, 1988

Tropical storm Helene, packing winds up to 85 m.p.h., was upgraded to a hurricane as it churned west across the Atlantic, but forecasters said it was too early to tell whether it would continue on its course into the storm-wracked Caribbean or veer north. “It’s well out there, three or four days away from the Caribbean Islands,” said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. He said the storm was too far away to dispatch a hunter aircraft to take a close look. Helene is the fourth hurricane of the 1988 Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season.