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Tropical Storm Hermine makes landfall

08 September 2010

Tropical Storm Hermine—the eighth named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season—formed as a tropical depression in the extreme south-western portion of the Gulf late Sunday, according to catastrophe risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide, and could deliver rain to Texas.

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Tropical Storm Hermine—the eighth named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season—formed as a tropical depression in the extreme south-western portion of the Gulf late Sunday, according to catastrophe risk modelling firm AIR Worldwide, and could deliver rain to Texas.

Hermine tracked north-northwest, making landfall just 24 hours later along a sparsely populated, low-lying stretch of coast 120 miles north of La Pesca, Mexico and 30 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.

AIR does not expect substantial insured losses from Hermine in Mexico. "At landfall, Hermine was a strong tropical storm with sustained winds of 65 miles per hour,” said...


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