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Track of Tropical Storm Fay. On August 6, 2008, a tropical wave emerged over the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa. Tracking westward, the system gradually organized into a tropical depression on August 15 just west of Puerto Rico. After making landfall in the Dominican Republic, the
Tropical Storm Fay was an unusual tropical storm that moved erratically across the state of Florida and the Caribbean Sea. The sixth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season , Fay formed from a vigorous tropical wave on August 15 over the Dominican Republic .
Fay can first be traced back to a decaying trough of frontal origin, which was drifting across the southeastern United States on July 1–2. [1] A portion of the trough formed into a low pressure system off the coast of Georgia, which would later become Tropical Storm Edouard, and the remaining section of the trough persisted over the northern Gulf of Mexico and proceeded to spawn an elongated ...
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After a prelude of strong winds and flooding downpours across the northeastern coast, the record-breaking Tropical Storm Fay made landfall near Atlantic City, New Jersey, just before 5 p.m. EDT ...
Tropical Storm Fay made landfall 10 miles north-northeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, just before 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 10. The storm had lost wind intensity from earlier in the day, its ...
0615 UTC (2:15 a.m. EDT) – Tropical Storm Fay makes a record-breaking fourth landfall on Florida, just southwest of Carrabelle, with winds of 50 mph (80 km/h). [12] August 24. 0000 UTC (8:00 p.m. EDT August 23) – Tropical Storm Fay weakens to a tropical depression. [12] August 25 Hurricane Gustav near peak intensity
Other notable storms included Tropical Storm Fay, which became the first Atlantic tropical cyclone to make landfall in the same U.S. state on 4 occasions; Tropical Storm Marco, the smallest Atlantic tropical cyclone on record; [26] Hurricane Omar, a powerful late-season major hurricane which caused moderate damage to the ABC islands, Puerto ...