Tropical Storm Edouard forms on path to Texas
Forecasters said the storm could bring 3 to 6 inches of rain and isolated totals up to 9 inches as it moves inland.
- On Monday, the National Hurricane Center designated a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico as Potential Tropical Cyclone 5, moving northwest toward the Texas and Louisiana coastlines.
- Previously designated as Invest 97L, the system is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms roughly 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast as it drifts inland.
- Heavy rainfall and flash flooding are the primary risks, with isolated areas expecting up to 6 inches of accumulation and maximum wind gusts reaching 40 mph along the Louisiana coast.
- Authorities issued a tropical storm warning from Port Bolivar, Texas, to the Vermilion/Cameron Parish Line in Louisiana ahead of an expected landfall by Tuesday night.
- Though the system could briefly intensify into Tropical Storm Edouard, meteorologists expect it to remain short-lived due to unfavorable environmental conditions limiting development.
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The system that was located on Monday over unusually warm waters, just off the coast, was small, but potentially very intense.
The U.S. weather predicts that Edouard, currently a tropical storm, will head north-west and touch land in south-eastern Texas, weakening by Wednesday morning until it becomes a tropical depression and dissipating completely that same night.
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