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CLAUDETTE WEAKENING AS IT MOVES INLAND; COASTAL WARNINGS DISCONTINUED (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 15, 2003 � The NOAA National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., reports that at 11 p.m. EDT the center of Tropical Storm Claudette was located near latitude 28.5 north, longitude 98.9 west or about 70 miles south-southwest of San Antonio, Texas. Claudette is moving toward the west near 14 mph. A west or west-northwest motion is expected over the next 24 hours. (Click NOAA satellite image for larger view of Tropical Storm Claudette taken at 10:45 p.m. EDT on July 15, 2003. Please credit “NOAA.”)
Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph with higher gusts. Claudette is expected to weaken to a tropical depression Wednesday morning. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 60 miles from the center.
Estimated minimum central pressure is 996 mb, 29.41 inches.
Storm surge flooding, swells and battering waves along the Texas coast are subsiding. Storm total rainfall of 5 to 8 inches is possible in association with Claudette. Isolated tornadoes are possible in portions of south-central Texas Tuesday night. (Click NOAA tracking map for larger view of Tropical Storm Claudette.) At 11 p.m. EDT, all coastal warnings are discontinued. However, a few wind gusts in excess of tropical storm force are still possible in rainbands over the Gulf of Mexico.
This is the last public advisory issued by the NOAA National Hurricane Center.
(Click here to view an animation of NOAA satellite imagery of Hurricane Claudette. The images are from 12:02 a.m. EDT, when Claudette spun into a hurricane, through 1:32 p.m. EDT, after landfall on the Texas coast. The satellite images were taken by the NOAA environmental satellite GOES-12 on July 15, 2003.)
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