Tropical Storm Rita to enter Gulf
Posted on: Monday, 19 September 2005, 08:22 CDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center and all major weather models project that Tropical Storm Rita, which is currently battering the central Bahamas, will enter the Gulf of Mexico and threaten the U.S. oil and natural gas facilities later this week.
At 8 a.m. EDT, the center of Rita, which was moving westward at nearly 9 miles per hour, was about 235 miles southeast of Nassau and about 460 miles east-southeast of Key West, Florida.
The storm, which could become a hurricane during the next 24 hours, was currently packing maximum sustained winds near 60 mph.
Seven major weather models, including the NHC's, show the storm, which is taking aim at the Florida Keys, will enter the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall between central Texas and the Florida Panhandle late this week.
NHC will issue another advisory at 11 a.m. Position: Lat. 22,7 degrees North
Long. 74.6 degrees West
(235 miles southeast of Nassau) Track: Moving west at 9 mph Strength: 60 mph maximum sustained winds
Source: REUTERS
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