SOMETCUBA Bulletin |
Volume 5 Number 1 |
January 1999 |
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August 21st-22nd
It was the shortest living tropical storm of the season. It formed in an area of low pressure over the Northwest portion of the Gulf of Mexico in the morning of the 21st. With a motion towards the North, which it kept during its short life it developed and quickly reached the rank of tropical storm in the afternoon reporting a maximum intensity of winds of 95 km/h and a minimum pressure of 1003 hPa in the early hours of the 22nd shortly before it entered on land near Corpus Christi. Charley weakened in the morning being degraded to tropical depression and finally dissipated over Texas, though its remains stood over this state causing heavy rains.
Charley caused 20 deaths in the U. S. And 50 millions of loses.
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