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A tropical depression formed on August 14 about 425 miles (685 km) east-southeast of Brownsville, Texas and about 425 miles (680 km) east of La Pesca, Mexico. It organized enough to be classified the next day as a tropical storm and given the name Erin. Erin weakened and crossed the Texas coast near Lamar on the 16th as a tropical storm and later became extratropical. The remnants of Erin continued northwestward through Texas and turned north and tracked over the south-central U.S., causing extensive flooding in Oklahoma on August 19. Although Erin was no longer a tropical system, radar imagery on the 19th indicated a clear hole resembling an eye in the precipitation field around which the heavy rain rotated. Peak intensity was 65 km/hr (35 knots or 40 mph) with a minimum pressure of 1003 mb.
National Hurricane Center
Names for 2007 Atlantic Storms:
Andrea,
Barry,
Chantal,
Dean,
Erin,
Felix,
Gabrielle,
Humberto,
Ingrid,
Jerry,
Karen,
Lorenzo,
Melissa,
Noel,
Olga,
Pablo,
Rebekah,
Sebastien,
Tanya,
Van,
Wendy
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