Tropical Storm Erin 'Near Hurricane Strength'
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While a Gulf disturbance that moved into Texas on Friday seems to have run its course, Hurricane Erin in the western Atlantic intensifies.
Faced with warm waters and a favourable atmosphere, reconnaissance aircraft flying through Hurricane Erin on Saturday found that it rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm just after 11:00 a.m. EDT with maximum sustained winds of 260 km/h. The storm was a Category 1 hurricane with 120 km/h winds just 24 hours earlier.
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