Hurricane Norma / Tropical Storm Norma Eastern Pacific 2005

Information on Tropical Storm Norma

03PM MDT 26/09/05 Norma has been downgraded to a tropical depression as it encounters increasing shear and cooler waters. Tropical Depression Norma is about 367 miles WSW of Cabo San Lucas. The storm's current position is 20.6N 115.1W and movement is 315° at 8kts. Wind speeds are 30kts with gusts to 40kts. Central barometric pressure is estimated at 1006Mb.

TD Norma is forecast to continue to lose strength as it moves over sub 26°C waters for the forecast period. A strengthening ridge of high pressure is expected to turn the storm more W to SW over the next 24 hrs.

Norma evolved out of tropical depression 14E at 3AM on 23/05 near 15.1N 109.3W. Tropical Depression 14E developed into a named storm quickly, in just 5 hrs. The disturbed area of weather that spawn it had been threatening to organize for several days. Norma endured as a tropical storm for more than 72hrs, never achieving hurricane status.

TD14E had been an area of disturbed weather, excited by a tropical wave on 22/9 in the 11PM MDT release from the National Hurricane Center.

It is not likely that this storm will present a threat to the Baja peninsula.

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