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By Pam Easton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — A tropical
storm rapidly developed in the
Gulf of Mexico Sunday and was
expected to hit somewhere
along the Texas or Louisiana
coasts by Monday night.
“It is a fairly fast moving sys
tem,” said Wendy Wong, a mete
orologist with the Houston-
Galveston office of the National
Weather Service. “Due to its
rapid formation, there is still a lot
of uncertainty.”
The national weather service
offices in Houston-Galveston
and Lake Charles, La., were
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working to track the storm,
which had maximum winds of
45 mph Sunday, and inform the
public of its existence. A tropi
cal storm warning was issued
Sunday afternoon from east of
High Island to Pascagoula,
Miss., as the storm moved
toward the north-northwest at
about 13 mph and strengthening
was predicted.
A turn toward the north was
expected, forecasters said of the
stonn, which was located about
325 miles south of Morgan City,
La. Sunday afternoon.
“What happens on these June
stonns, quite often, is they will
form in the western Gulf of
Mexico and rapidly move
onshore. You don’t have the
warning you have with the
September storms,” said Steve
Rinard, a meteorologist with the
National Weather Service in Lake
Charles, La. “Any time these
things are out there, there is a lot
of concern. This thing could sud
denly blossom up into a hurri
cane. These things can rapidly
intensify or detensify. We’ve got
to watch them accordingly.”
On Sunday, meteorologists
said Tropical Storm Bill, the
second named storm of the
Atlantic hurricane season and
the first Gulf storm, was expect
ed to be mostly a rain producer.
After Bill’s projected landfall
east of Port Arthur in southwest
Louisiana late Monday, the
storm was expected to move off
to the northeast.
Bill fonned just after the 46th
anniversary of Hurricane
Audrey, one of the most destruc
tive June hurricanes to hit the
United States. It struck the
Louisiana-Texas coast on June
27, 1957, with a 13.9-foot storm
tide and wind gusting to 180
mph. It killed at least 390 people.
This season’s first tropical
storm. Ana, formed in April and
was only a threat to shipping
interests. The Atlantic hurricane
season started June 1 and runs
through Nov. 30.
“It’s perhaps good right now
that it is not forecast to rapidly
intensify,” said Josh Lichter, a
meteorologist with the Houston-
Galveston weather office. “This
is just another reminder for peo
ple that it’s hurricane season and
if you don’t have your supplies,
you need to get them.”
While Bill is only predicted
to be a minimum tropical storm,
Lichter said parallels can be
drawn to another minimum
storm: June 2001’s Tropical
Storm Allison, which paralyzed
the nation’s fourth largest city.
Allison, which organized for
less than a day from a distur
bance off the upper Texas coast,
came ashore near Houston on
June 5 as a minimal tropical
storm. Its remnants drifted into
deep East Texas, only to back
track and swamp Houston the
night of June 8. By week’s end,
it had dumped more than 36
inches of water on some spots,
caused $5 billion in damage and
killed 22 people.
The remains then plodded
eastward, causing torrential rains
and damage around the U.S.
coastline from Texas, across
northern Florida and up to the
Philadelphia area before finally
turning into the Atlantic. In the
end, the storm’s death toll was
41.
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“Allison just proves you
don’t need to wait until August
or September to have a disas
ter,” Lichter said.
Rinard said Bill was expect
ed to continue its fast movement
after corning onshore and
backtrack as Allison did du
that storm’s devastating return,
John Cascio, Jefferson
County’s emergency manage
ment coordinator, said he was
tracking the storm and planned to
spend Monday morning m
phone calls to make sure cities in
southeast Texas were aware
the storm’s movements.
“We harp on hurricanes so
much that they should be pretty
well prepared for a tropii
storm. It looks like if that is al
is, we will get some rain and
some much needed rain ar
here,” he said. “All of our]
are in place and we will
them into action on an appropri
ate timeline. At this point,ills
really a gamble on which way it
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years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the
United States remains "dangerously
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astrophic attack, according to a
study by the Council on Foreijn
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is that emergency responders or
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