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T.S. Claudette will weaken into a depression on Monday while T.S. Bill will become the season's first hurricane. Ana has already been downgraded, again, to a depression and is just hanging on.

Tropical Depression 4 developed in the East Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa Bay early Sunday morning. A tropical storm warning has been issued for NW Florida. Tropical Storms Ana and Bill continue to move westward, with Bill gaining some strength overnight. Ana Bill TD4 Ana Forecast Models Bill Forecast Models TD4 Forecast Models Long Range Radar Visible Satellite Image LoopInfrared Satellite Image Loop Visible Image LoopInfrared Image Loop Visible Image LoopInfrared Image Loop WV Satellite Image Loop WV Image Loop WV Image Loop Public Advisory Public Advisory Public Advisory Discussion Discussion Discussion Buoy Data: Western Caribbean                  ...

Hurricane Claudette hits Texas coast 07/15/2003Associated Press PALACIOS, Texas - Hurricane Claudette sloshed ashore on the mid-Texas coast Tuesday, barely a hurricane but still packing 80-plus mph winds that peeled roofs, knocked out power and left low-lying coastal areas under water. "The windows are flexing, it's howling and I'm wondering what ... I'm doing here," said Ed Conaway at the South Texas Project, the nuclear power plant just north of where Claudette cruised up Matagorda Bay and made landfall between Port O'Connor and Palacios late Tuesday morning. APA car is partly submerged in floodwaters as the storm surge from Hurricane...

July 15, 2003, 12:30PM Claudette chases off all but one tree protester By JEFFREY GILBERT Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle "There's a hurricane?" the sole remaining Memorial Park tree-sitter joked in the rain Tuesday morning, still perched atop a 110-foot tall pine tree. "Trust," as he refers to himself, is sticking it out through Hurricane Claudette, but he's the only one. His companion, "Bear", came down this morning. "We knew it was going to get rough," Trust said. "So we decided that only the most experienced person stay up here." Trust has survived wet and stormy weather for the past week,...

Claudette, the first hurricane of the year, is barreling into the Texas coast near Matagorda.

HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 755 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2003 ...HURRICANE WARNINGS CONTINUE FOR MOST OF THE UPPER TEXAS COAST... ...THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE RESIDENTS OF... BRAZORIA...CHAMBERS...GALVESTON...HARRIS...JACKSON...LIBERTY...AND MATAGORDA COUNTIES... ...WATCHES/WARNINGS IN EFFECT... A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM BAFFIN BAY TO HIGH ISLAND...INCLUDING GALVESTON AND MATAGORDA BAYS AND THE HOUSTON/GALVESTON METRO AREA. AN INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WHARTON...FORT BEND...WALLER...COLORADO...AND AUSTIN COUNTIES. ...CURRENT STORM INFORMATION... .LOCATION... AT 7 PM CDT...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 27.7 NORTH...LONGITUDE 93.5 WEST. THIS IS ABOUT 135 MILES SOUTHEAST...

Claudette heads for South Texas 07/14/2003Associated Press SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - Campers packed up to go inland. Surfers headed out to ride the waves. All forecasters could do was simply keep watch on Tropical Storm Claudette as it lumbered toward Texas. The state coast from Port O'Connor, about 70 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, to Brownsville and south along the Mexican coast to Rio San Fernando was under a hurricane watch early Monday. Landfall was projected in Willacy County, north of Brownsville, by late Tuesday afternoon. Early Monday, the center of Claudette was about 310 miles east-southeast of...

Storm Gathers Strength in Gulf of Mexico By LYNN BREZOSKY, Associated Press Writer SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - A hurricane watch was posted Sunday along the South Texas coast as Tropical Storm Claudette crawled across the Gulf of Mexico, and campers packed up and left low-lying South Padre Island. The storm was expected to make landfall at near hurricane strength as early as Tuesday, said Miles Lawrence, a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. A hurricane watch was in effect along the Texas Gulf Coast from Port O'Connor, about 70 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, to Brownsville and...

TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE ADVISORY NUMBER 20 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 10 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003 ...CLAUDETTE BEGINS TO STRENGTHEN...HURRICANE WATCHES ISSUED... AT 10 AM CDT...1500Z...A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUED FOR THE TEXAS GULF COAST FROM PORT OCONNOR TO BROWNSVILLE TEXAS. AT 10 AM CDT...1500Z...THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WATCH FROM RIO SAN FERNANDO NORTHWARD TO THE U.S. BORDER. AT 10 AM CDT...1500Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM CLAUDETTE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 25.4 NORTH...LONGITUDE 92.4 WEST OR ABOUT 315 MILES...505 KM...EAST OF BROWNSVILLE TEXAS. THE CENTER OF CLAUDETTE CONTINUES TO MOVE ERRATICALLY...BUT CLAUDETTE IS...

Claudette has changed little in strength overnight and the center is now located over the extreme northeastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. Latest satellite imagery continues to show a rather ragged looking tropical cyclone with most of the thunderstorms still located north and east of the center. The outflow has improved somewhat to the north and east of the center even though there still appears to be some shear affecting the system from the southwest. Claudette is expected to re-emerge over the southern Gulf later this morning, at which time a slow strengthening trend will begin, especially if the shear...

Tropical storm Claudette formed today in the eastern Caribbean. It is moving very rapidly and is expected to make landfall between the northern tip of Nicaragua and Houma, Louisiana, including western Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Jamaica sometime within the next week or so. The official forecast has it becoming a hurricane on Thursday before moving over the Yucatan Peninsula. Previous tropical storm live threads, for Ana and Bill, were posted in the News/Activism forum, and did not garner significant attention because they got buried. Being stupid, I didn't notice that the "weather" topic is in this forum. Post news...