Emit warning in six states for Hurricane "Frank"

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Emit warning in six states for Hurricane "Frank"

Notimex | National Thursday August 26, 2010 | Creation time: 9:33 | Last Updated: 09:45


The National Weather Service (NWS) issued an alert for Baja California Sur, Colima, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit and Sinaloa by intense heavy rains caused by Hurricane Frank, which runs south of the Baja California Peninsula.

Therefore recommended that the population of such entities and shipping in the vicinity of the system to take precautions by heavy rains that can exceed 70 mm in 24 hours, which could cause flooding and landslides, as well as strong winds and high waves.

In its latest report the agency said the system, with strong hazard index was moving west-northwest at 22 kilometers per hour, and during the next 24 hours will remain in Class I on the Saffir-Simpson with a light intensity winds.

He explained that the hurricane, which is 520 miles west-southwest of Cihuatl?n, Jalisco, and 220 east-southeast of Isla Socorro, Colima, it will come south of the Baja California Peninsula, so that might cause local rainfall strong.

The agency predicted that Hurricane 13.00 Frank will be 550 kilometers south of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, and 130 southeast of Isla Socorro, Colima, and further affect Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit and Sinaloa .



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Re: Emit warning in six states for Hurricane "Frank"

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Frank "away from the Mexican coast, but still generates storms

Thursday, August 26, 2010 (Latest News)


The National Weather Service reported that the storm generated landslides cloud toward the coast of Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan.

MEXICO CITY, (EL UNIVERSAL) .- El hurac?n "Frank" with the category I was located on Thursday morning at 520 miles Chihuatl?n, Jalisco, with sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour (km / h), but his career it gradually moves away from the Mexican coast.

However, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported that the storm cloud generated by landslides to the coast of Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan.

Satellite imagery is possible to see a core of strong convective activity over southern Nayarit and Sinaloa, caused by a trough extended along the Sea of Cortez, it added.

In addition, a phenomenon known as "swell" continue to affect the national coasts, from Chiapas and Jalisco, in the next 24-48 hours, which will cause waves of 2-4 meters high, and recommended taking precautions.

The cities with the highest forecast of rain in millimeters for Thursday are Orizaba, Veracruz (66.9), Iztapalapa, Distrito Federal (63.8); Arriaga, Chiapas (56.0), Progreso, Yucatan (48.8), Cuernavaca, Morelos (43.3).

, Monclova, Coahuila (32.1), Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz (31.1), Salina Cruz, Oaxaca (25.9), Villahermosa, Tabasco (19.9), Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi (15.4), Valladolid, Yucatan (13.4), Felipe Carrillo Puerto , Quintana Roo (11.4) and Tepehuanes, Durango (10.2).

Frank The hurricane killed at least four people dead, two missing and five injured, and hundreds of families homeless and crops disaster victims as they pass through Oaxaca.

Heavy rains, which hit more than 12 hours south of Morelos, the river overflowed and damaged Yautepec municipalities Yautepec Tlayacapan, Tlaltizapan and Tlaquiltenango.

While in Colima, severe storms on Tuesday and Wednesday by the passage of the storm brought down trees, cut electricity supply in several municipalities, landslides on roads and increasing stream and rivers in the state, without causing victims.

While on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the No. 1 cold front is approaching the northern Tamaulipas and interacts with a trough that extends off the coast of Veracruz.

Both systems originate strong cloud convection in the region, detailed the MTF