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Tropical Storm — Baldwin, GA

Aug 21, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay will be remembered from the catastrophic rainfall that it brought to much of Florida as well as being one of the longer lived tropical systems to affect the U.S. Tropical Storm Fay formed from a tropical wave on August 15th along the east coast of Hispaniola. The storm moved west along the south coast of Cuba before reaching a weakness in the subtropical ridge to its north causing it turn north-northwestward into central Cuba by the 17th. Fay continued to track north-northw

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 132207). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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