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MONTHLY TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
8 AM PDT FRI AUG 1 2002

SUMMARY OF TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY FOR JULY 2002...
 
FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST 
LONGITUDE...
 
THREE TROPICAL CYCLONES DEVELOPED DURING JULY...TROPICAL STORM 
CRISTINA AND HURRICANES DOUGLAS AND ELIDA.

CRISTINA ORIGINATED FROM A TROPICAL WAVE THAT BECAME A TROPICAL
DEPRESSION ON THE 9TH WHILE LOCATED A FEW HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF
ACAPULCO MEXICO.  THE DEPRESSION MOVED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD...THEN
WESTWARD FROM THE 9TH TO THE 13TH...WHILE SLOWLY STRENGTHENING.  IT
BECAME A TROPICAL STORM ON THE 12TH.  WINDS REACHED 55 KT BY THE
14TH WHEN THE STORM TURNED TOWARD THE NORTHWEST.  CRISTINA WEAKENED
TO A NON-CONVECTIVE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE...A SWIRL OF LOW
CLOUDS...ON THE 16TH WHILE LOCATED ABOUT 750 N MI WEST-SOUTHWEST OF
THE SOUTHERN TIP OF BAJA CALIFORNIA.

THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION THAT BECAME DOUGLAS FORMED ABOUT 400 N MI 
SOUTH OF MANZANILLO MEXICO ON THE 20TH AND BECAME A TROPICAL STORM 
LATER THAT DAY.  AFTER MOVING NORTHWESTWARD TO NORTH- 
NORTHWESTWARD... DOUGLAS TURNED TOWARD THE WEST LATE ON THE 21ST AND 
STRENGTHENED INTO A HURRICANE.  IT REACHED ITS PEAK INTENSITY OF 90 
KT ON THE 22ND WHILE LOCATED ABOUT 650 N MI SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF THE 
SOUTHERN TIP OF BAJA CALIFORNIA.  DOUGLAS MOVED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD 
AND GRADUALLY WEAKENED OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.  IT WEAKENED 
TO A TROPICAL STORM ON THE 25TH AND WAS REDUCED TO A DEPRESSION  
LATER THAT DAY.  DOUGLAS DISSIPATED INTO A WESTWARD-MOVING LOW CLOUD 
SWIRL ABOUT 1300 MILES EAST OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ON THE 26TH.
 
ELIDA FIRST BECAME A DEPRESSION ON THE 23RD ABOUT 320 N MI
SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF ACAPULCO.  IT STRENGTHENED AT A PHENOMENAL
RATE...BECOMING A TROPICAL STORM LATER THAT DAY...A CATEGORY 3
HURRICANE ABOUT 24 HOURS LATER...AND A 140 KT CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE
ON THE 25TH.  INITIALLY MOVING WESTWARD...ELIDA TURNED
WEST-NORTHWESTWARD ON THE 25TH.  A WEST-NORTHWESTWARD TO
OCCASIONALLY WESTWARD MOTION WOULD CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS.
ELIDA WEAKENED TO A TROPICAL STORM ON THE 27TH...AND FURTHER
WEAKENING OCCURRED ON THE 28TH AS THE CYCLONE TURNED NORTHWESTWARD.
ELIDA TURNED NORTH-NORTHWEST ON THE 29TH AS IT WEAKENED TO A
DEPRESSION...AND IT DISSIPATED THE NEXT DAY ABOUT 700 N MI WEST OF
PUNTA EUGENIA MEXICO.


SUMMARY TABLE...

NAME                  DATES             WIND-KT         DEATHS
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TS CRISTINA         9-15 JULY             55              0
H DOUGLAS          20-26 JULY             90              0
H ELIDA            23-30 JULY            140              0
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NOTE...DATES ARE BASED ON UNIVERSAL COORDINATED TIME...UTC
 
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