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2013 EASTERN PACIFIC BASN HURRICANE
SEASON
Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna,
Virginia, USA
STORM TRACKS AS OF JULY 8, 2013
STORM TRACKS AS OF SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
STORM TRACKS AS OF OCTOBER 20, 2013
HURRICANE BARBARA: MAY 29
The most notable storms so far this year were HURRICANE
BARBARA and Tropical Storm, Manuel; both brought
widespread heavy rains to Mexico
TROPICAL STORM MANUEL:
MEXICO: HIT BY INGRID AND MANUEL
TROPICAL STORM MANUEL STRIKES ACAPULCO
80 DEAD
TROPICAL STORM MANUEL: ACAPULCO; SEPT 18, 2013
HURRICANE INGRID
Torrential rains spawned by Ingrid and Manuel, which
converged on Mexico from the Gulf and the Pacific over
the weekend, triggering flash floods and landslides
MANUEL: LANDSLIDES
18 of the 80 deaths were people killed after a
landslide buried their homes in the village of La
Pintada
TROPICAL STORM MANUEL: MUDFLOWS; SEPT 18, 2013
LOOTING IN ALCAPULCO
• Shops were plundered in the city's upscale neighborhood of Diamante, home to luxury hotels and plush apartments.
IMPACTS
• Tens of thousands of people were trapped in the aftermath of two tropical storms (Manuel and Ingrid) that hammered vast swaths of Mexico.
• More than 1 million people were affected.
• With Acapulco's airport terminal under water, thousands of tourists stranded.
With a tropical disturbance over the Yucatan Peninsula headed
toward the same Gulf coast hit by Hurricane Ingrid, the country was
experiencing a double hit, at a time that it was struggling to
restore services and evacuate those stranded by the flooding of
the previous weekend
BUT, THE WORST NEWS OF ALL IS THAT MANUEL
STRENGTHENED INTO A TROPICAL STORM AGAIN ON THE
PACIFIC COAST AND COULD CAUSE MORE DAMAGE IN
NORTHERN MEXICO
MANUEL’S TRACK
MANUEL: BECOMES A HURRICANE; SEPT. 19
HEAVY RAINFALL
TOTAL DEATHS FROM MANUEL REACH 97
EVACUATION OF TOURISTS
TROPICAL STORM RAYMOND: OCT. 20, 2013
RAYMOND, A RAINMAKER, TO IMPACT ALCAPULCO
• Raymond, which strengthened to a CAT 1 hurricane on Sunday (Oct. 20th) is expected to impact the Acapulco area.
• Acapulco is still recovering from flooding and mudslides triggered by Manuel.
A HISTORICAL NOTE ON the 1989 RAYMOND
• Hurricane Raymond, a CAT 4 storm, was the strongest tropical storm of the 1.89 Pacific Hurricane season.
• Raymond made its first landfall on the Baja California Peninsula as a tropical storm on October 4 and a second landfall in Sonora, Mexico.
• Tucson, Arizona was flooded on Oct. 7.
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