Tropical Storm Watch Issued for Texas

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(08-14) 19:54 PDT MIAMI, (AP) --

A tropical storm watch was issued late Tuesday for parts of Texas and Mexico as a tropical depression formed in the central Gulf of Mexico.

At 11 p.m. EDT, the fifth depression of the Atlantic hurricane season was centered about 425 miles east-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, and about 425 miles east of La Pesca, Mexico.

The depression is moving toward the northwest at nearly 10 mph. It was expected to turn west-northwest by late Wednesday. Maximum sustained winds were near 30 mph. A tropical storm has winds of at least 39 mph.


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[maseman]

1. Here we go

...and with a few more storms cruising to the west throughout the Atlantic.

[RL3AO]

2. Sadly, with everyone focusing on Dean and what might be a 40 mph tropical storm

everyone will overlook that Taiwan is looking at a possible catastrophe off of its coast.

[uppityperson]

3. We were checking that out just a bit ago. It looks really nasty.

I hope it misses land, and that those in its vicinity are preparing well.

[RL3AO]

4. Doesn't look like it will miss land.

[Javaman]

10. Ummm, that's in the south pacific. nt

[uppityperson]

12. South pacific? Here's most recent track, 5 now, hit at 4-3 range.

[Javaman]

15. Duh, on my part. I will go sit in the corner now.

:dunce:

[Gman]

5. And I've got to drive to Brownsville tomorrow

and back on Thursday. As long as it stays no more than a tropical storm things should be ok.

[lastliberalintexas]

6. Still be careful

Allison was "only" a tropical storm as well.

[BluePatriot]

13. Yeah, Allison was nasty

My house got flooded in Houston, during that. Luckily my parents had flood insurance.

It was sort of a mixed blessing as they put in some elbow grease for major repairs, subcontracting family and themselves, and used some of the leftover settlement money for my college/ their retirement. My car under repair in the garage got ruined. Oil everywhere. Had to drive a junker Taurus for years after that.

In some areas Houston's drainage is terrible. I work near a low area and always wonder about getting home even in normal thunderstorms. I carry flood insurance on my apt, at least.

[Up2Late]

7. More like a Tropical Depression watch! It's not even officially a storm, and yet a REAL TS is out...

...in the Atlantic heading for the Eastern Caribbean Islands, Which IS being tracked is ignored? WTF?



<http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/tracker/dynamic/200704N.html>

The storm tracking data for the THREE ACTUAL Tropical storm tracking data is all at this link:

<http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/>

[RL3AO]

8. Thats because its expected to become a storm. And Dean isn't being ignored

but he is still 3 or 4 days away from land.

[ClintonTyree]

9. It's the rain that concerns them the most....

The already waterlogged areas of east Texas can ill-afford another protracted rain event. There's no place for the water to go and major flooding is expected (again) if it hits the already super-saturated parts of east Texas.

Dean is still a long ways off. There's plenty of time to prepare for him.

[AnneD]

11. We have not had rain for a while.....

so we have some capacity to take rain-but NO area can with stand a drenching of 5-12 inches in a 24 hour period. We have fairly good natural and man made drainage. I don't think Brooklyn got that much rain and look at the damage it did recently. They got the winds that we have to deal with though.

It is hot and humid today so we are looking foreword to the relief that this tropical depression will bring. This depression will also sap a bit of strength from Dean. Now that is the one to follow.

[Up2Late]

14. Oh yeah, I forgot about all that rain they go there, but Good News!

Looks like they just introduced a brand-new feature to the TSR website which estimates Rain fall from the storms, check it out: <http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/tracker/dynamic/main.html>

Looks like both Atlantic storms are moving pretty fast: <http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/tracker/dynamic/N.html>