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Storm warnings issued for Texas, La.
MIAMI - A tropical storm warning was issued Wednesday for parts of the Texas and Louisiana coasts as a tropical depression intensified in the Gulf of Mexico. Rain was already falling in the two states, and forecasters warned it could cause flooding.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the ninth tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and its center was about 85 miles south-southwest of Galveston, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said.
Senior hurricane specialist Jack Beven said about 5 to 10 inches of rain were expected along the middle and upper Texas coast and in southwestern Louisiana, with some areas possibly getting as much as 15 inches. This has been a wet summer for Texas, so the extra rain could be "enough to create some considerable flooding," he said.
The depression was moving toward the north near 6 mph and was expected to cross the Texas coast later Wednesday within the warning area between Port O'Connor, Texas, and Cameron, La. A tropical storm watch was issued for Louisiana from Cameron to Intracoastal City. Forecasters expect the depression to become a weak tropical storm with sustained winds of about 45 mph by the time it makes landfall.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather
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MIAMI - A tropical storm warning was issued Wednesday for parts of the Texas and Louisiana coasts as a tropical depression intensified in the Gulf of Mexico. Rain was already falling in the two states, and forecasters warned it could cause flooding.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the ninth tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and its center was about 85 miles south-southwest of Galveston, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said.
Senior hurricane specialist Jack Beven said about 5 to 10 inches of rain were expected along the middle and upper Texas coast and in southwestern Louisiana, with some areas possibly getting as much as 15 inches. This has been a wet summer for Texas, so the extra rain could be "enough to create some considerable flooding," he said.
The depression was moving toward the north near 6 mph and was expected to cross the Texas coast later Wednesday within the warning area between Port O'Connor, Texas, and Cameron, La. A tropical storm watch was issued for Louisiana from Cameron to Intracoastal City. Forecasters expect the depression to become a weak tropical storm with sustained winds of about 45 mph by the time it makes landfall.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather
3-Day Cone
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/144527.shtml?3day?large#contents