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Tropical Storm — Pearl River, MS

Oct 28, 2020

A tropical depression formed in the northwestern Caribbean on the afternoon of October 24th. 9 hours later, it became the twenty-seventh named storm and eleventh hurricane of the exceptionally active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. After meandering virtually in the same place, it finally began moving northwest and slowly strengthening before making its first landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula on October 26th. Zeta exited the Yucantan Peninsula weaker but still a strong tropical storm. The path of

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 926266). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Pearl River, MS

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