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TROPICAL STORM DENNIS INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER   4A
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
8 PM AST TUE AUG 24 1999

...TROPICAL STORM DENNIS REMAINS POORLY ORGANIZED...
 
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE TURKS AND CAICOS
ISLANDS AND FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN BAHAMAS WHICH INCLUDES THE
ACKLINS...CROOKED...INAGUAS...MAYAGUANA...SAMANA CAY AND RAGGED
ISLANDS. A TROPICAL STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL 
BAHAMAS WHICH INCLUDES CAT...EXUMAS...LONG...RUM CAY AND SAN
SALVADOR ISLANDS.  

RESIDENTS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD
MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.
 
AT 8 PM AST...0000Z...THE POORLY ORGANIZED CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM
DENNIS WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 23.2 NORTH...LONGITUDE  71.4 WEST
OR ABOUT 125 MILES...200 KM...NORTH OF TURKS ISLANDS.
 
DENNIS HAS MOVED LITTLE THIS EVENING HOWEVER...A WEST-NORTHWEST
MOTION IS EXPECTED TO RESUME LATER TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.
 
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 50 MPH... 85 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS BUT CONFINED TO THE EAST AND NORTH OF THE CENTER.  DENNIS IS
EXPECTED TO BECOME A HURRICANE IN A DAY OR SO.
 
TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 85 MILES...140 KM 
TO THE EAST OF THE CENTER.
 
THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1008 MB...29.77 INCHES.
 
REPEATING THE 5 PM AST POSITION...23.2 N... 71.4 W.  MOVEMENT...
STATIONARY.  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...50 MPH.  MINIMUM CENTRAL
PRESSURE...1008 MB.
 
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER 
AT 11 PM AST.
 
GUINEY
 
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