THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 25, 1995 TAG: 9508250645
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: By STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 53 lines
Lined up like box cars rolling toward the station, a hurricane, a tropical storm, a tropical depression and a couple tropical waves lined the central Atlantic from Florida to Africa Thursday.
The only storm affecting land - tropical depression Jerry - was inundating much of the Florida and was moving toward Gulf of Mexico, where it might strengthen while steering toward Pensacola.
Meanwhile, far in the Atlantic, Hurricane Humberto continued to strengthen Thursday, with top sustained winds at 105 mph and gusts to 125 mph. At 11 p.m., Humberto was located about 1,300 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands and moving west-northwest near 9 mph.
Just west of Humberto, Iris was downgraded to a tropical storm with winds of 65 mph winds. At 11 p.m., Iris was about 250 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, moving west near 9 mph.
Both storms were steering west toward the Caribbean.
Jerry dumped more than a foot of rain on much of Florida, with 14.8 inches of rain in East Naples, near Miami. Elsewhere in the state, parts of Interstate 10 were under water and closed, and a bridge in Palm City was washed out.
At 11 p.m., Jerry was on Florida's west coast, just south of Cedar Key. The depression was expected to resume a slow west-northwestward motion overnight.
As if three named storms were not enough, the Hurricane Center was keeping tabs on two tropical waves. One, a strong wave a few hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde, is well organized and could develop into a tropical depression today. ILLUSTRATION: TRACKER'S GUIDE
Graphic
STEVE STONE/Staff
Tropical cyclone data is from the National Hurricane Center and
includes latitude, longitude and maximum sustained winds.
[For a copy of the graphic, see microfilm for this date.]
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