Hurricane Emily weakens into a Category 3 storm
Posted on: Friday, 15 July 2005, 10:27 CDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Emily weakened a little but is still a dangerous storm churning toward the central Caribbean Sea and Jamaica with maximum sustained winds near 125 miles per hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an advisory on Friday.
Earlier Friday morning, the NHC said Emily was a Category 4 storm packing maximum sustained winds of 135 mph.
The storm, now a Category 3 hurricane, was located about 465 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, as of 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT).
On its forecast track, the center of the storm should pass just south of Jamaica on Saturday, cross the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico early Monday, and enter the southwest Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday before making landfall close to the Texas-Mexico border near some U.S. oil and natural gas fields off the Texas coast, according to the NHC.
The center will issue its next advisory at 2 p.m.
Position:
Lat. 12.7 degrees North
Long. 64.0 degrees West
(465 miles east-southwest of Port au Prince, Haiti)
Track: Moving west-northwest near 18 mph Strength: 125 mph maximum sustained winds with higher gusts.
Source: REUTERS
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