THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, September 30, 1996 TAG: 9609300036
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 32 lines
Isidore is fading.
Just 36 hours after its winds had topped off at 115 mph, the season's seventh hurricane had shrunk to a tropical storm with its winds down to 70 mph and falling.
The storm - about as far from any land mass as an Atlantic hurricane can be - was heading north into increasingly colder waters and the National Hurricane Center in Miami said it would likely lose its tropical characteristics by Wednesday.
At 5 p.m. Sunday, Isidore was about 1,300 miles south-southwest of the Azores, or about 2,350 miles east-southeast of Norfolk. It was moving northeast near 12 mph with a generally northward motion expected through today.
Isidore is moving around a low pressure system and is expected to take on a northwestward motion by Tuesday as it moves around the northern part of the low.
It should remain no threat to land, however, the Hurricane Center said.
Meanwhile, there are no other tropical systems stirring in the Atlantic or the Caribbean Sea. ILLUSTRATION: TRACKER'S GUIDE
STEVE STONE
The Virginian-Pilot
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