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According to the NHC's 10 a.m. weather outlook Monday, the disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico is now Tropical Storm Francine. It is forecast to make landfall on the upper Texas coast and Louisiana ...
The National Hurricane Center is tracking Tropical Storm Sara, but it appears Texas is not in its direct path. ... The storm is forecast to deliver 10 to 20 inches of rain, with isolated areas ...
A tropical rainstorm developed late on Sunday and is forecast to steer toward the border between Mexico and Texas into the middle of the week. The storm is expected to drift north-northwestward ...
From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas. According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years. On any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline, a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
The National Hurricane Center on Monday is monitoring a total of five tropical systems in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. One of those systems, Tropical Storm Franklin, will veer north ...
The need for a more modernized method for forecasting tropical cyclones had become apparent to operational weather forecasters by the mid-1980s. At that time the United States Department of Defense was using paper maps, acetate, grease pencils, and disparate computer programs to forecast tropical cyclones. [19]
The orphaned MCV can become the seed of the next thunderstorm outbreak. An MCV that moves into tropical waters, such as the Gulf of Mexico, can serve as the nucleus for a tropical cyclone. An example of this was Hurricane Barry in 2019. MCVs can produce very large wind storms; sometimes winds can reach over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
The southern tip of Texas will see the most severe impact from Hurricane Beryl. Heat indices near 110℉ will pose risks on Friday, followed by wind gusts of 25 to 30 miles per hour Friday afternoon.