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Hurricane Franklin was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in the Mexican state of Veracruz since Hurricane Karl in 2010. [1] The sixth named storm, first hurricane and the first of ten consecutive hurricanes of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Franklin formed on August 7 out of a tropical wave that was first tracked in the southeastern Caribbean Sea on August 3.
Franklin moved across the Dominican Republic as a tropical storm, before intensifying into a Category 4 hurricane in the western Atlantic. [47] Gert became a remnant low on August 22, but regenerated into a tropical depression at the end of the month. [48] Tropical Storm Harold affected south Texas and brought much needed rainfall to the region.
A tropical wave emerged into the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa on July 27. After reaching the eastern Caribbean on August 3, convection began increasing. The disturbance became Tropical Storm Franklin at 00:00 UTC on August 7, about 85 mi (137 km) north-northeast of Cabo Gracias a Dios.
Tropical Storm Franklin unleashed heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday after making landfall in the country's southern region, killing at least one person and ...
SANTO DOMINGO/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -At least one man was killed as Tropical Storm Franklin passed over the Dominican Republic, flooding parts of the capital and damaging infrastructure, though ...
Tropical Storm Franklin brings torrential rain to Dominican Republic and Haiti on Wednesday ... which caused one death in Mexico, was the first tropical storm to hit California in almost a century ...
Three simultaneous hurricanes active on September 8, 2017 – with Katia (left), Irma (center), and Jose (right).All three were threatening land at the time. Taken by various of satellites throughout 2017, these are the 19 tropical cyclones that reached at least Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale during that year, from Enawo in March to Lan in October (though Debbie is out of order).
By Thursday, schools, businesses and government agencies were reopened as the tropical storm spun northeast of the country. As of late Thursday morning, Franklin was about 90 miles (145 kilometers ...