000 ABNT30 KNHC 061422 TWSAT MONTHLY TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY...CORRECTED NWS/TPC NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 8 AM EDT WED AUG 6 2003 CORRECTED JUNE TO JULY IN BILL SUMMARY AND CLAUDETTE DEATHS FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO... FIVE TROPICAL CYCLONES WERE ACTIVE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN DURING JULY...WITH FOUR OF THE CYCLONES...HURRICANE CLAUDETTE...HURRICANE DANNY...TROPICAL DEPRESSION SIX AND TROPICAL DEPRESSION SEVEN DEVELOPING DURING THE MONTH. THE 2003 HURRICANE SEASON IS RUNNING WELL AHEAD OF CLIMATOLOGY... WITH 4 NAMED STORMS AND 2 HURRICANES SO FAR. IN AN AVERAGE YEAR...1.6 NAMED STORMS AND 0.6 HURRICANES WOULD HAVE OCCURRED BY THE END OF JULY. NOAA WILL UPDATE ITS 2003 SEASONAL FORECAST ON AUGUST 7TH. TROPICAL STORM BILL WAS A WEAKENING TROPICAL DEPRESSION OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA EARLY ON 1 JULY AND CONTINUED TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVED NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS OF GEORGIA... TENNESSEE...NORTH CAROLINA...AND VIRGINIA. BILL EVENTUALLY BECAME ABSORBED BY A FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER WEST-CENTRAL VIRGINIA EARLY ON 3 JULY. BILL PRODUCED LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. AFTER MAKING LANDFALL ALONG THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COAST. BILL WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 4 DEATHS AND 30 MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE. HURRICANE CLAUDETTE DEVELOPED FROM A TROPICAL WAVE OVER THE CENTRAL CARIBBEAN SEA ON 8 JULY. THE STORM MOVED WESTWARD UNTIL 10 JULY... WHEN IT TURNED NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN. THIS MOTION BROUGHT THE CENTER OVER THE NORTHEASTERN YUCATAN PENINSULA OF MEXICO ON 11 JULY. CLAUDETTE BRIEFLY BECAME A HURRICANE ON 10 JULY AND WAS A 60 MPH TROPICAL STORM AT LANDFALL IN YUCATAN. CLAUDETTE MOVED NORTHWESTWARD INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO ON 12 JULY... THEN MEANDERED OVER THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO ON 13 JULY. A GENERAL NORTH-NORTHWESTWARD MOTION FOLLOWED ON 14 JULY AND CLAUDETTE SLOWLY INTENSIFIED DURING THIS TIME. IT REACHED HURRICANE STRENGTH ON 15 JULY AS IT TURNED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD. THIS MOTION BROUGHT THE CENTER TO THE TEXAS COAST AT PORT OCONNOR ABOUT 1530 UTC THAT DAY AS A 90 MPH CATEGORY ONE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE. CLAUDETTE TURNED WESTWARD AFTER LANDFALL...MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN TEXAS AND NORTHERN MEXICO. THE CYCLONE TURNED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD ACROSS NORTHWESTERN MEXICO AND THE TEXAS BIG BEND AREA BEFORE DISSIPATING ON 17 JULY. PRELIMINARY INFORMATION INDICATES THREE DEATHS ASSOCIATED WITH CLAUDETTE...ON DIRECTLY DUE TO THE STORM AND TWO INDIRECT DEATHS. DAMAGE ESTIMATES IN THE UNITED STATES ARE INCOMPLETE AT THIS TIME. THE PRE-CLAUDETTE WAVE PRODUCED GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ON ST. LUCIA...WHERE MINOR DAMAGE WAS REPORTED. HURRICANE DANNY WAS A LONG-LIVED TROPICAL CYCLONE THAT DEVELOPED FROM A LARGE TROPICAL WAVE OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL ATLANTIC ON 16 JULY ABOUT 600 MILES EAST OF BERMUDA. THE CYCLONE MOVED NORTHWESTWARD AND BECAME A TROPICAL STORM EARLY ON 17 JULY ABOUT 540 MILES EAST OF BERMUDA. DANNY TURNED NORTHWARD AND REACHED HURRICANE STRENGTH OF 75 MPH ON 18 JULY ABOUT 550 MILES SOUTH OF ST. JOHNS NEWFOUNDLAND. DANNY MAINTAINED THAT INTENSITY FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS AS IT MOVED NORTHEASTWARD AND WEAKENED BACK TO A TROPICAL STORM ON 19 JULY...AND INTO A DEPRESSION LATE ON 20 JULY. THE CYCLONE MOVED SOUTHEASTWARD AND DEGENERATED INTO A NON-CONVECTIVE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM EARLY ON 21 JULY. THE REMNANT LOW-LEVEL CIRCULATION MADE SEVERAL SMALL CLOCKWISE LOOPS ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN BERMUDA AND THE AZORES ISLANDS FOR THE NEXT WEEK BEFORE FINALLY DISSIPATING EARLY ON 27 JULY ABOUT 1250 MILES EAST OF BERMUDA. SHORT-LIVED TROPICAL DEPRESSION SIX FORMED ON 19 JULY ABOUT 1050 MILES EAST OF THE LESSER ANTILLES. THE DEPRESSION MOVED RAPIDLY WESTWARD AND DEGENERATED INTO A TROPICAL WAVE ON THE AFTERNOON OF 21 JULY WHILE LOCATED JUST EAST OF THE CENTRAL LESSER ANTILLES. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED THE WAVE AS IT MOVED THROUGH THE LESSER ANTILLES...BEFORE IT DISSIPATED COMPLETELY ON 23 JULY OVER THE CENTRAL CARIBBEAN SEA. TROPICAL DEPRESSION SEVEN WAS ALSO A SHORT-LIVED TROPICAL CYCLONE THAT FORMED ON 25 JULY ABOUT 60 MILES EAST OF JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA. THE DEPRESSION DEVELOPED FROM THE SAME TROPICAL WAVE THAT SPAWNED TROPICAL DEPRESSION SIX. IT MOVED NORTH-NORTHWESTWARD AND MADE LANDFALL ON THE CENTRAL GEORGIA COAST WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH EARLY ON 26 JULY. THE DEPRESSION CONTINUED TO MOVE SLOWLY INLAND AND EVENTUALLY DISSIPATED OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA EARLY ON 27 JULY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS TOTALING 2 TO 3 INCHES OCCURRED OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. SUMMARY TABLE - JULY 2003 NAME DATES MAX WIND - MPH DEATHS ---------------------------------------------------------------- TS BILL 29 JUNE-1 JULY 60 4 H CLAUDETTE 8-17 JULY 90 3 H DANNY 16-20 JULY 75 0 TD SIX 19-21 JULY 35 0 TD SEVEN 25-27 JULY 35 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE...DATES ARE BASED ON UNIVERSAL COORDINATED TIME...UTC FORECASTER STEWART/AVILA/PASCH/BEVEN/LAWRENCE/FRANKLIN
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