The tropical storm Erin which was formed wednesday in the Mexico gulf, is now heading towards Texas. Under this situation, while taking all the precautions, the governor Rick Perry says "Because storms have saturated much of our state this summer, many communities in this storm's projected path are at high risk of dangerous flash flooding,".
A weather specialist Bobe Rose here says that
"The area of disturbed weather in the central Gulf of Mexico has strengthened into Tropical Storm Erin. This morning, satellite images show thunderstorms increasing across the central Gulf and the cloud pattern becoming more symmetrical. Recent data from a NOAA Reconnaissance plane investigating the depression indicates the center of circulation is still fairly broad, but beginning to concentrate around a tight center. As a result, the system has been upgraded to minimal tropical storm status. Upper-level winds are favorable for additional strengthening later today and tonight. At 10:30 am, the ill-defined center was located near 25.6N/93.5W, or about 250 miles east of Brownsville. Maximum sustained winds are near 40 mph, with higher gusts. The depression is moving to the west-northwest near 12 mph and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours, as it is steered by a large upper-level ridge of high pressure, centered over the Tennessee Valley. The latest forecast track from the National Hurricane Center calls for the center of the storm to move inland around sunrise Thursday morning along the lower Texas coast, close to Port Mansfield, or just north of Brownsville. Maximum sustained winds at landfall are forecast to be around 50 mph. A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for the Texas coast, from Freeport southward."
Following is the latest data about Erin from National Hurricane Centre
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WTNT65 KNHC 151516
TCUAT5
TROPICAL STORM ERIN TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL052007
1015 AM CDT WED AUG 15 2007
DATA FROM A NOAA RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT TROPICAL
DEPRESSION FIVE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO HAS REACHED TROPICAL STORM
STRENGTH AND IS NOW TROPICAL STORM ERIN. A SPECIAL ADVISORY WILL
BE ISSUED WITHIN THE HOUR.
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FORECASTER AVILA
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