There are two tropical storms presently aimed at the Texas Coast. Here is the latest on Tropical Storm Erin:
Here is its projected path:
In the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical depression Five took shape last night, and has been upgraded to Tropical Storm Erin at 10 am CT moving northwest toward the southeastern Texas Coast.
Conditions appear favorable for Tropical Storm Erin to be a flooding rain threat into Friday night.
The current forecast track brings this system into the southern Texas Coast on Thursday, but the impacts will be felt along all of the Texas Coast, from Brownsville, through Corpus Christi and Houston, to Lake Charles, LA.
Tropical Storm Dean is a potential threat:
Meanwhile, our second area of concern, Tropical Storm Dean (60 mph), continues to move quickly west in the Atlantic.
Dean is forecast to become a hurricane by Thursday night or early Friday, and should be threatening the Lesser Antilles as early as Friday. From there, Dean should continue west-northwestward into the Caribbean.
It is too early to tell what, if any, impacts Dean will have on the United States.
Here is Dean’s potential path:
I spoke with someone at DADS today. By next Monday, the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management should be tracking Tropical Storm Dean (which may be a hurricane by then), so keep up with information from that site. Also, providers should be checking with Regional Offices for regulatory questions about evacuations, etc.
