Posted on 10/01/2005 7:36:05 AM PDT by NautiNurse
...Twentieth tropical depression of the season forms over the northwestern Caribbean Sea... ...Tropical storm watch and warning issued for the Yucatan...
at 10 am CDT...1500z... the government of Mexico has issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula from Punta gruesa northward to Cabo Catoche.
At 10 am CDT... the government of Mexico has issued a tropical storm watch for the northwestern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula from Cabo Catoche westward to Campeche.
A tropical storm watch means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area...generally within 36 hours. A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours.
For storm information specific to your area...including possible inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather office.
At 10 am CDT...1500z...the broad center of Tropical Depression Twenty was located near latitude 19.3 north... longitude 85.8 west or about 125 miles... 205 km... east-southeast of Tulum Mexico and about 110 miles... 175 km...southeast of Cozumel Mexico.
The depression is moving toward the west-northwest near 6 mph ... 9 km/hr... and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours. However... the depression is still in the formative stage... so some erratic motion may occur. On the forecast track... this system is expected to make landfall along the eastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula tonight or early Sunday.
Maximum sustained winds are near 30 mph... 45 km/hr...with higher gusts. Some strengthening is forecast before landfall occurs... and the depression could become a tropical storm later today or tonight. An Air Force Reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft is enroute to assess the actual strength of the system.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 1007 mb...29.74 inches.
Total rainfall accumulations of 5 to 10 inches... with isolated maximum amounts of 10 inches... will be possible across the Yucatan Peninsula and northern Belize.
Repeating the 10 am CDT position...19.3 N... 85.8 W. Movement toward...west-northwest near 6 mph. Maximum sustained winds... 30 mph. Minimum central pressure...1007 mb.
An intermediate advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 1 PM CDT followed by the next complete advisory at 4 PM CDT.
Forecaster Stewart
Another day, another tropical depression...
Diego
Wasn't going to post it...then thought I would head off being blinded by a ping to another ALL CAPS advisory. ;o)
maybe it will die out over the Yucatan....
My eyesight has been permanently damaged over the past month by posters who've done that. I've got a braille monitor on order.
D'oh!
LOL. The best defense....
Wish you had worded it this way:
"Looks like Just a Mexico concern..."
lol - as long as the afternoon model runs don't have too many eastward corrections, you should be able to watch this one without putting up storm shutters again.
It doesn't seem as if these will amount to much, but it does seem as if we'll get TS Stan & TS Tammy. Edging closer to running out of names! Hope the rest of them are fish storms..
I hope you're right, I've already put them back into storage...I've called and end to hurricane season already.
Yup. Rita brought me much needed rain.
From your keyboard................
The makes it GWB's #1 priority.
My niece sent me a picture of her hurricane damage in Tomball, Texas (just outside Houston), she showed the patio, patio table and chairs...one of the (plastic) chairs was tipped over backwards, lol.
Did you have a chat with her regarding the risk of leaving patio furniture outdoors during hurricanes?
This is one reason why I can't go home for at least two more weeks. Rita crumpled those like they were tinker toys all over the area.
This is the scene all over the Lake Charles area roads. We used to be a woodsy kind of town.
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