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Meet Ingrid: season’s 9th named storm
By SUZETTE PORTER
Article published on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 |
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| The 11 p.m. (EDT) Thursday five-day forecast track for Tropical Storm Ingrid from the National Hurricane Center. |
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PINELLAS COUNTY – The ninth named tropical storm of the season – Ingrid – formed east of the Lesser Antilles Thursday night.
The storm was 840 miles east of the Lesser Antilles moving toward the west-northwest at about 6 mph. Ingrid was expected to continue to move in the same general direction for the next 24 hours.
Maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph with higher gusts. National Hurricane Center meteorologists said a small amount of strengthening was possible in the next 24 hours.
The latest intensity forecast shows that Ingrid will begin to encounter increased wind shear within a few days and could be downgraded to a tropical depression within 96 hours.
While it’s still too early to say with complete confidence that Ingrid will not become a threat to Florida, most long-range computer models are showing the storm taking a northern track in the direction of Bermuda and away from the United States.
Early Thursday morning, Humberto became the first hurricane of the 2007 season to strike the United States coastline as a minimal Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph maximum winds.
Humberto came ashore on the northern Texas coast and has since been downgraded to a tropical depression.
Thus far this season, nine named storms have formed - Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dean, Erin, Felix, Gabrielle, Humberto and Ingrid. Dean was the first hurricane of the season and the first major hurricane. Dean and Felix were two of the strongest Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30.
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Article published on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007
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