What I Remember About Claudette
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What I Remember About Claudette
Claudette had a definite circulation well east of the Lesser Antilles. This was unusual for a July storm. However, the circulation was more of the mid-level variety and the NHC hesistated to upgrade her to Depression status. That year (was it '03?) there were several systems which had mid-level circulations which could easily be construed as low level judging only from satellite photos. Claudette continued on across the Carribean finally being upgraded to tropical storm status there. However, it remained poorly organized and even weakened as it entered the southern Gulf. Only at the end of her long odyssey across the tropics did Claudette begin to gather herself just south of La. on a WNW course toward the central Texas course. She was finally upgraded to hurricane status in the early morning hours before landfall. It does seem as though Claudette was in something or a rapid intensification as it made landfall with winds in the 85-90 mph range, when only a very few hours before it was a poorly organized tropical storm. One footnote, Claudette was a name that had been used previously by a tropical storm which struck the same part of the Texas Coast as a tremendous rainmaker bringing forty inches of rain to Texas in 1979. Which is why I don't like this naming cycle which brings the same names up ever six years.
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