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CLAUDETTE CONTINUING SLOWLY NORTH-NORTHWEST;
HURRICANE WARNINGS EXTENDED (See the NOAA National Hurricane Center for the latest information on this storm. Complete advisories are posted at 11 a.m., 5 p.m., 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. All times are Eastern. Advisories are posted more frequently as the storm nears the USA mainland.) July 14, 2003 � The NOAA National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., reports that at 5 p.m. EDT the center of Tropical Storm Claudette was located near latitude 27.5 north, longitude 93.1 west or about 255 miles east of Corpus Christi, Texas. This is also about 160 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas. Claudette is moving toward the north-northwest near 7 mph. A turn toward the west-northwest is expected during the next 12 hours. The center of Claudette is expected to be near the Texas coast by Tuesday afternoon. (Click NOAA satellite image for larger view of Tropical Storm Claudette taken at 2:00 p.m. EDT on July 14, 2003. Click here for high resolution, which is a very large file. Please credit “NOAA.”)
Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph with higher gusts. Some strengthening is forecast during the next 24 hours, and Claudette could become a hurricane Monday night or Tuesday. Several oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have reported hurricane-force winds a few hundred feet above the surface during the past few hours. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 140 miles from the center. (Click NOAA tracking map for larger view of Tropical Storm Claudette.)
The latest minimum central pressure reported by a NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft is 989 mb, 29.21 inches. Storm surge flooding of 3 to 5 feet above normal tide levels, accompanied by large and dangerous battering waves, can be expected in the warning area near and to the north of where the center crosses the coast. Swells are now impacting the shorelines along the Texas coast and are creating above normal tides and dangerous surf conditions. Storm total rainfall of 5 to 8 inches is possible in association with Claudette. At 5 p.m. EDT, the hurricane warning is extended northward along the Texas coast to High Island. A hurricane warning is now in effect along the Texas coast from Baffin Bay to High Island. The tropical storm warning is extended eastward along the Louisiana coast to Intracoastal City. A tropical storm warning is now in effect north of High Island,
Texas, to Intracoastal City, La. A hurricane watch remains in effect south of Baffin Bay to Brownsville, Texas.
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