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Tropical Storm Amanda
Tropical storm (SSHWS/NWS)
Tropical Storm Amanda over central Guatemala on May 31
FormedMay 30, 2020
DissipatedMay 31, 2020
Highest winds1-minute sustained: 40 mph (65 km/h)
Lowest pressure1003 mbar (hPa); 29.62 inHg
Fatalities14 total
DamageUnknown
Areas affectedEastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
Part of the 2020 Pacific hurricane season

Tropical Storm Amanda was a short-lived but deadly tropical cyclone that caused widespread and significant flooding in Central America in late May 2020.

Meteorological history

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Late on May 24, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) began monitoring the potential for a broad area of low pressure to develop later that week a few hundred miles south of the coasts of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador, where environmental conditions were expected to support gradual development.[1] Two days later, a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad trough of low pressure developed in this region within a large cyclonic gyre.[2]

  1. ^ Robbie J. Berg (May 24, 2020). "Five-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook". Miami, Florida: National Hurricane Center. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  2. ^ John P. Cangialosi (May 26, 2020). "Five-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook". Miami, Florida: National Hurricane Center. Retrieved June 1, 2020.