Tropical storm forms as hurricane season opens
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Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and set sail for Florida on Friday -- the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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A tropical depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Karen early Tuesday in the open Atlantic Ocean, where it posed no immediate threat to land, and a new tropical depression formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico.
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The 14th named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, Noel, formed on Sunday in the Caribbean and was expected to drench impoverished and vulnerable Haiti with potentially deadly rains, forecasters said.
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Tropical Storm Gordon formed Monday in the open Atlantic and was expected to head in the general direction of Bermuda, where Hurricane Florence had already brought strong winds and high waves, forecasters said.
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Tropical Storm Karen gained strength on  Wednesday and could soon become a hurricane in the open  Atlantic while a new tropical storm was expected to form in the  Gulf of Mexico, U.S forecasters said.
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A tropical depression could form in the Atlantic Ocean or in the western Gulf of Mexico over the next couple of days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday.
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The tropical storm brings the threat of heavy rains and flash floods to coastal regions of North and South Carolina.
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Tropical Storm Barbara formed off the southwestern coast of Mexico on Wednesday and could strengthen to a hurricane over the next several days, forecasters predicted.
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Tropical Storm Ingrid, the ninth Atlantic storm of the year, formed on Thursday in the Atlantic Ocean east of the Caribbean islands, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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MEXICO CITY - Tropical Storm Barbara formed Wednesday off the southwestern coast of Mexico and could strengthen to a hurricane within days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.  Barbara follows Alvin, the first tropical storm of the eastern Pacific's 2007 season.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne became a hurricane  on Thursday, raising the threat to the Dominican Republic,  Haiti and hundreds of islands in the northern Caribbean.
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The sixth tropical storm of  the Atlantic hurricane season, Florence, strengthened into a  hurricane in the open Atlantic on Sunday, U.S. forecasters  said.
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Tropical Storm Karen gained strength on Wednesday and could soon become a hurricane in the open Atlantic while a new tropical storm was expected to form in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S forecasters said.
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A tropical cyclone could form in the  southwestern Gulf of Mexico, while a couple of tropical  depressions could form in the Atlantic over the next day or  two, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Monday.
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Tuesday may mark the last day of the hurricane season, but it&#39;s not going away quietly. Tropical Storm &quot;Otto&quot; has formed far out in the Atlantic Ocean, about 810 miles east of Bermuda.
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Hurricane forecasting experts said the number of named Atlantic storms this year will be lower than initially predicted, following a slow start of the season in which only one hurricane formed so far.
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Tropical Storm Isaac formed Thursday in the central Atlantic, but was not expected to become a hurricane or directly threaten land, forecasters said.