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TROPICAL STORM GERT ADVISORY NUMBER  48
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
5 AM AST THU SEP 23 1999
 
...GERT WEAKENS TO A TROPICAL STORM...APPROACHING THE AVALON
PENINSULA OF NEWFOUNDLAND...

STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WIND WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR
PORTIONS OF THE MARITIME AREAS SOUTH AND EAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND.
SEE STATEMENTS FROM THE CANADIAN HURRICANE CENTER FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION.
 
AT 5 AM AST...0900Z...THE POORLY-DEFINED CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM
GERT WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 45.7 NORTH...LONGITUDE  53.6 WEST
OR ABOUT 135 MILES...220 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF ST. JOHNS
NEWFOUNDLAND.
 
GERT IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST NEAR 28 MPH...44 KM/HR...
AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY.  ON THIS TRACK GERT
WILL PASS JUST TO THE EAST OF THE AVALON PENINSULA OF NEWFOUNDLAND
DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
 
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR  70 MPH...110 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS.  GERT IS LOSING ITS TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND WILL BECOME
EXTRATROPICAL LATER TODAY.

TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 230 MILES
...370 KM...MAINLY EAST OF THE CENTER.
 
THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS  967 MB...28.56 INCHES.
 
REPEATING THE 5 AM AST POSITION...45.7 N... 53.6 W.  MOVEMENT
TOWARD...NORTH NORTHEAST NEAR 28 MPH.  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 70 MPH.  MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 967 MB.
 
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
11 AM AST.
 
FRANKLIN
 
STRIKE PROBABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ADVISORY NUMBER CAN BE
FOUND UNDER AFOS HEADER MIASPFAT4 AND WMO HEADER WTNT74 KNHC.
 
 
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