The Hindu : Storm heads for Texas

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Tuesday, Jul 15, 2003

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Storm heads for Texas

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (Texas): A hurricane watch was posted along the south Texas coast as tropical storm Claudette crawled across the Gulf of Mexico. Campers packed up and left low-lying South Padre Island and the Coast Guard helped rescue swimmers caught in strong currents. The projected path would bring the storm across Padre Island with landfall on Tuesday afternoon north of Brownsville, said Jim Campbell, a forecaster in the National Weather Service office in Brownsville. A hurricane watch was in effect along the Texas Gulf Coast from Port O'Connor, about 113 km northeast of Corpus Christi, to Brownsville and south along the Mexican coast to Rio San Fernando. By 11 p.m. local time on Sunday, the centre of Claudette was about 515 km east of Brownsville, with maximum sustained wind blowing at 105 kmph. Slow strengthening is expected over the next 24 hours. It has been almost stationary, but is expected to resume moving toward the west-northwest, the hurricane centre said. The National Weather Service said swells were approaching the Texas coast and could create dangerous surf conditions.

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