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Tracking Tropical Storms Dean & Erin

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Aug 16, 2007 12:26 am US/Eastern

Tracking Tropical Storms Dean & Erin

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MIAMI (CBS4) ― At 11pm. Tropical Storm Dean was still cruising over the open Atlantic, and is predicted to pass through the Lesser Antilles in the next 72 hours.

Its top wind speeds are 70 miles per hour, which is below the 74-mile-an-hour threshold for a hurricane. Dean was centered about 625 miles east of Barbados. It was moving in a west-northwest direction earlier Wednesday but now is just mostly heading west at 23 miles per hour. Forecasters don't expect it will make any sharp turns north at this point.

Forecasters also say some strengthening is forecast during the next 24 hours and the storm could become a hurricane, possibly a Category 2.

Dean is the fourth named storm of the season, which forecasters expect to be busier than average.

Last week, they said up to 16 tropical storms are likely to form, with nine strengthening into hurricanes.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Erin was located 140 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. Its maximum sustained winds are 40 miles per hour, and it is traveling in a west-northwest direction at 14 miles per hour.

A Tropical storm warning has been issued for the Texas coast from Freeport southward. A tropical storm watch remains in effect for the northeast coast of Mexico from Rio San Fernando northward.

The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, but August typically marks the start of the most active period.

Ten tropical storms developed in the Atlantic last year, but only two made landfall in the United States.

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