Tropical Storm Chantal was a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that moved across the Caribbean Sea in August 2001. It was the fourth depression and third named storm of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. It reached a peak intensity of 70 mph twice, but each time it was anticipated to attain hurricane status. After degenerating into a tropical wave, it passed through the Windward Islands.
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Tropical Storm Chantal was a North Atlantic tropical cyclone that moved across the Caribbean Sea in August 2001. It was the fourth depression and third named storm of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season. It reached a peak intensity of 70 mph twice, but each time it was anticipated to attain hurricane status. After degenerating into a tropical wave, it passed through the Windward Islands. On August 21, it moved ashore near the border of Mexico and Belize, before dissipating on the next day. Damage in Belize totaled USD 4 million, due to the combined impact of high waves, moderate winds, and rainfall. In Trinidad, lightning caused two indirect deaths in Trinidad, most significantly in Quintana Roo in Mexico where it caused widespread mudslides. The system was predicted to maintain a west-northwestward track toward the northwestern Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
The cyclone was forecast to cross the Yucatán Peninsula and Campeche Bay and make a second landfall in the Veracruz state of Mexico on August 20. It dissipated on August 21. It is the fourth tropical storm to form in the Atlantic Ocean in the 2001 hurricane season, and the third to develop in the North Atlantic. The storm was named after a tropical depression that developed on August 14 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It became a tropical storm on August 16, and a hurricane on August 17. It degenerated into a Tropical Wave on August 18, and then a tropical Storm on August 19. It made landfall on August 20, and dissipated the following day in the northern Belizean state of Belize. The remnants of the storm were last seen on August 22, when they passed over the northern tip of Honduras.
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