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Tropical Cyclone 4A formed yesterday, November 10 off the western coast of India in the Arabian Sea, and NASA's infrared imagery captured some high, powerful thunderstorms developing in the storm's center.Tropical Cyclone (TC) 4A formed yesterday around 4 p.m. ET, 380 miles south-southwest of Mumbai, India, with maximum sustained winds near 37 mph. By 10 a.m. ET today, November 10, 4A had moved north about 135 miles. Cyclone 4A was located about 245 miles south-southwest of Mumbai, near 15.2...
By LAUREN KING By Lauren King The Virginian-Pilot Tropical Storm Hanna continued moving closer to the coast and a hurricane watch stretched farther up into North Carolina throughout the day Thursday. The National Hurricane Center said the hurricane watch for Hanna extends as far north as Currituck Beach Light, on the Outer Banks near the North Carolina/Virginia border. A tropical storm warning was issued from the Savannah River up to the North Carolina and Virginia border, including...
By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Ernesto hit North Carolina near hurricane strength on Thursday, dumping heavy rain on both Carolina states and forecasters warned it could trigger life-threatening floods and tornadoes. The center of Ernesto made landfall at Long Beach, sustaining winds of around 70 miles per hour (113 km per hour), just short of the 74 mph (119 kph) needed for hurricane status, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. On Wednesday...
By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Slow-moving Hurricane Ophelia soaked and strafed coastal North Carolina and then took aim at the islands of the Outer Banks off its northern shore on Thursday. Ophelia was the first hurricane to hit the United States since the much more powerful Katrina killed hundreds in the U.S. Gulf Coast and displaced 1 million people in August. Its center was 30 miles south-southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, at 9 a.m. (1300 GMT), the...
By Gene Cherry SALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Ophelia weakened to a tropical storm off the southeastern U.S. coast on Monday as it drifted in fits and starts toward the North Carolina coast. The storm had barely budged in days and its top sustained winds repeatedly strengthened and weakened just enough to wobble back and forth across the 74 mph (119 kph) threshold that separates a tropical storm from a hurricane. At 5 p.m. (2100 GMT), it was a tropical storm with 70 mph...
By Gene Cherry SALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Ophelia weakened to a tropical storm off the southeastern U.S. coast on Monday as it drifted in fits and starts toward the North Carolina coastline. The storm had barely budged in days and its top sustained winds repeatedly strengthened and weakened just enough to wobble back and forth across the 74 mph (119 kph) threshold that separates a tropical storm from a hurricane. At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), it was a tropical storm with...
MIAMI, Sept 11 - Hurricane Ophelia hovered off the coast of the southeastern United States on Sunday and could hit North Carolina later in the week, forecasters said. But forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami cautioned that Ophelia's path was unusually hard to project because the storm was not moving. North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley declared a state of emergency on Saturday and local officials issued a mandatory evacuation order for non-residents on the low-lying...
