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Tropical Storm Ernesto in Caribbean
26/Aug/2006: Ernesto, the fifth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed over the Caribbean Sea on Friday and could develop into a hurricane threatening the Gulf of Mexico on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, U.S. forecasters said.
Ernesto is moving west-northwest at about 16 miles per hour (26 kilometers per hour) toward Jamaica, the westward end of Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to continue on this route for the next 24 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center's Web site.
At 5 p.m. Friday Miami time, Ernesto had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. It was centered 300 miles south-southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and 660 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. The governments of Haiti and Jamaica have issued tropical storm watches for the islands, indicating tropical storm conditions were expected in the next 24 hours.
The Miami-based hurricane center forecast that Ernesto would become a Category 1 hurricane, with 65-knot, or 74-mile-per-hour (119-km-per-hour), winds, by Monday, a day before the anniversary of Katrina, the costliest U.S. natural disaster ever, which devastated New Orleans and killed about 1,500 people.
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