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July 8, 2010

Second tropical depression forms in Gulf of Mexico

Filed under: Hurricane Katrina — admin @ 6:47 am

Forecasters say the Gulf of Mexico is bracing for the second tropical depression of the season, just days after Hurricane Alex drenched the area. The tropical depression is 265 miles east-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, or 245 miles east of La Pesca, Mexico.Tropical depression

“The speed is moving to the northwest at about 14 mph, and currently landfall is forecasted to be over extreme northeast of Tamaulipas state in Mexico, just south of the Rio Grande river,” said meteorologist Joseph Tomaselli of the National Weather Service. “That should occur at 5 p.m. on Thursday.”

Earlier Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for the Texas coast south of Baffin Bay to the Rio Grande.

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