Hurricane Gert Looms in Atlantic
By DAVE BRYAN
09-16-99 0948EDT
MIAMI (AP) -- As Hurricane Floyd pounded the Carolinas today, Hurricane Gert
whipped up 145 mph winds about 2,200 miles from the East Coast. Gert -- the fourth
Category 4 hurricane of the Atlantic season -- was about 630 miles east of the Leeward
Islands and traveling northeast of Floyd's path on a track that should curve it east of
Bermuda.
Gert was about 350 miles wide and could grow as the storm enters the same
atmospheric conditions of weak upper-level winds and warm ocean temperatures that produced
Floyd's huge proportions, National Hurricane Center meteorologist Chris Robbins said.
``Gert could become a very Floyd-like hurricane,'' he said.
The storm was moving west-northwest at about 10 mph this morning and its strong
wind was expected to remain fairly steady.
Forecasters said it was too early to predict whether Gert would threaten the
United States, but an expected turn to the north would keep it deep at sea.
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