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MONTHLY TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
8 AM PDT SAT JUL 01 2000
CORRECTION...CHANGE CARLOTTA WIND SPEED IN TABLE TO 155 MPH
  
SUMMARY OF TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY FOR JUNE 2000

FOR THE NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE...

THERE WERE TWO NAMED TROPICAL CYCLONES DURING JUNE.

BUD WAS A 50-MPH TROPICAL STORM THAT MOVED NORTHWESTWARD TOWARD BAJA
CALIFORNIA FROM THE 13 THROUGH THE 17TH. 

HURRICANE CARLOTTA MOVED ON A TRACK PARALLEL TO THE PACIFIC COAST
OF MEXICO FROM THE 18TH TO THE 25TH...REMAINING WITHIN ABOUT 300
MILES OF THE COAST THROUGHOUT ITS LIFETIME.  CARLOTTA REACHED ITS
MAXIMUM INTENSITY OF 155 MPH ON THE 21ST...MAKING IT A STRONG
CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE...WHEN IT WAS
CENTERED ABOUT 250 MILES SOUTH OF MANZANILLO.  CARLOTTA IS THE
SECOND STRONGEST EASTERN PACIFIC JUNE HURRICANE ON RECORD...SECOND
ONLY TO AVA OF 1973.  

THE LITHUANIAN FREIGHTER LINKUVA...WHICH LOST ENGINE POWER AND WAS
CAUGHT IN THE HURRICANE...REMAINS MISSING AT THIS TIME.  ITS CREW OF
18 ARE PRESUMED LOST.

SUMMARY TABLE:

NAME                  DATES          WINDS          DEATHS
------------------    ----------     -------        ------
TROPICAL STORM BUD    13-17 JUNE     50 MPH         0
HURRICANE CARLOTTA    18-25 JUNE     155 MPH        18


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