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On August 31, a westward-moving tropical depression formed east of the Windward Islands. It organized enough to be classified the next day as Tropical Storm Felix, and intensified later that day into a hurricane. Hurricane Felix continued to move westward over very warm waters and intensified into a Category 5 storm by late on September 2. Felix weakened briefly overnight and then strengthened into a Category 5 storm again before it struck northeastern Nicaragua on September 4. The rugged terrain of Central America weakened the storm significantly such that it was downgraded to a tropical depression on September 5. The strongest winds in Hurricane Felix were 270 km/hr (146 knots or 168 mph), and its lowest pressure was 929 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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