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Hurricane Humberto began as an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms off the coast of western Cuba on September 8. These storms moved slowly west-northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico and organized enough to be classified as Tropical Depression Nine on the morning of September 12. Within a few hours, the tropical depression had strengthened into Tropical Storm Humberto. The system turned northward and continued to intensify until it reached hurricane status early in the morning of September 13. Hurricane Humberto made landfall around 0700 UTC near High Island, Texas as a Category 1 hurricane. The storm rapidly weakened as it traveled northeast over land and dropped heavy amounts of precipitation on Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Georgia and the Carolinas. Humberto is blamed for the death of a man who was killed by a falling carport in Bridge City, Texas. The strongest winds in Hurricane Humberto were 135 km/hr (73 knots or 85 mph), and its lowest pressure was 986 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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