Tropical Storm Bonnie was the second storm of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. Bonnie developed from a tropical wave on August 3 to the east of the Lesser Antilles. Bonnie attained peak winds of 65 miles per hour over the Gulf of Mexico. The storm caused a tornado outbreak across the Southeastern United States which killed three people and inflicted over USD 1 million in damage.
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Tropical Storm Bonnie was the second storm of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. Bonnie developed from a tropical wave on August 3 to the east of the Lesser Antilles. After moving through the islands, its fast forward motion caused it to dissipate. However, it later regenerated into a tropical storm near the Yucatán Peninsula. Bonnie attained peak winds of 65 miles per hour over the Gulf of Mexico, turned to the northeast, and hit Florida as a 45-mph tropical storm. Bonnie’s impact was minimal. Throughout the Caribbean Sea, the storm’s effects consisted primarily of light rainfall, and in Florida, the precipitation caused flooding and minor damage. The storm caused a tornado outbreak across the Southeastern United States which killed three people and inflicted over USD 1 million in damage. Bonnie forced the evacuation of 154 oil platforms and 32 oil rigs. The cease in production was equivalent to over 1.2 million barrels of loss in crude oil, or 0.
2% of the annual oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. Bonnie weakened to a tropical depression on August 12, and accelerated northeastward through the southeastern United States. Bonnie lost its tropical characteristics on August 14 to theEast of New Jersey. Its remnant low continued northeastward, making landfall in Massachusetts and Maine and continuing into Atlantic Canada. Bonnie was a weak storm through most of its path, dropping only light rainfall and causing only moderate damage through its most path of the storm. As a result of Bonnie, the U.S. experienced the worst tornado outbreak of the tropical depression, where three people were killed and moderate damage was caused. Bonnie is the first of five tropical systems to make landfall on Florida in the 2004 hurricane season, and the second of a record eight disturbances to reach tropical storm strength during the month of August.
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