Tropical Storm Edouard was the fifth tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the first of eight named storms to form in September 2002, the most such storms in the North Atlantic for any month at the time. It made landfall on northeastern Florida on September 5, and after crossing the state it dissipated on September 6 while becoming absorbed into the larger circulation of Tropical Storm Fay.
About Tropical Storm Edouard (2002) in brief
Tropical Storm Edouard was the fifth tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season. It developed on September 1 from an area of convection associated with a cold front east of Florida. Despite moderate to strong levels of wind shear, the storm reached a peak intensity of 65 mph on September 3, but quickly weakened as it tracked westward. It made landfall on northeastern Florida on September 5, and after crossing the state it dissipated on September 6 while becoming absorbed into the larger circulation of Tropical Storm Fay. It was the first of eight named storms to form in September 2002, the most such storms in the North Atlantic for any month at the time. The storm dropped moderate rainfall across Florida, exceeding 7 inches in the western portion of the state. The rain flooded several roads; however, there were no casualties, and damage was minimal. It generated minimal amounts of intermittent convection along the southeastern portion of its circulation, though enough for it to remain a tropical cyclone over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico for about 13 hours.
It also produced a small amount of rain in the northwestern portion of Mexico, though uncertainty was noted due to the development of Tropical Fay in the gulf of Mexico. It is the only tropical storm to have made landfall in the U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in October 2005. It became a tropical depression on September 2 after developing a low-level circulation while located about 140 miles east of Daytona Beach, Florida. It then weakened to a tropical storm and almost immediately weakened into a depression over land. It dissipated about 13 hours after making landfall in northeastern Florida as a tropicalstorm. It has since been absorbed by the larger tropical storm Fay.
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