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Hurricane CLAUDETTE (Text)

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TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE ADVISORY NUMBER  30
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
10 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2003
 
...CLAUDETTE WEAKENING AS IT MOVES INLAND...COASTAL WARNINGS
DISCONTINUED...

AT 10 PM CDT...0300 UTC...ALL COASTAL WARNINGS ARE DISCONTINUED.
HOWEVER...A FEW WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF TROPICAL STORM FORCE ARE
STILL POSSIBLE IN RAINBANDS OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO.
 
AT 10 PM CDT...0300Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 28.5 NORTH... LONGITUDE 98.9 WEST OR ABOUT 70
MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
 
CLAUDETTE IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 14 MPH.  A WEST OR
WEST-NORTHWEST MOTION IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.  
 
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR  50 MPH...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS.  CLAUDETTE IS EXPECTED TO WEAKEN TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
 
TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO  60 MILES
... 95 KM FROM THE CENTER. 
 
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS  996 MB...29.41 INCHES.
 
STORM SURGE FLOODING...SWELLS...AND BATTERING WAVES ALONG THE TEXAS
COAST ARE SUBSIDING.
 
STORM TOTAL RAINFALL OF 5 TO 8 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN ASSOCIATION
WITH CLAUDETTE.
 
ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN PORTIONS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS
TONIGHT.

ONE FATALITY HAS BEEN REPORTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH CLAUDETTE...A
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD WAS KILLED BY A FALLING TREE IN JOURDANTON TEXAS
IN ATASCOSA COUNTY.

REPEATING THE 10 PM CDT POSITION...28.5 N... 98.9 W.  MOVEMENT
TOWARD...WEST NEAR 14 MPH.  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 50 MPH.  MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 996 MB.
 
FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...PLEASE MONITOR
PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.
 
THIS IS THE LAST PUBLIC ADVISORY ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER ON THIS SYSTEM.  FUTURE INFORMATION ON CLAUDETTE CAN BE FOUND
IN PUBLIC ADVISORIES ISSUED BY THE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION
CENTER...UNDER AWIPS HEADER TCPAT4 AND WMO HEADER WTNT34
KWNH...BEGINNING AT 4 AM CDT.
 
FORECASTER FRANKLIN
 
 
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