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 WTNT23 KNHC 150239
 TCMAT3
 TROPICAL STORM CHARLEY FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER  24
 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL   AL032004
 0300Z SUN AUG 15 2004
  
 AT 11 PM EDT...0300Z...ALL WARNINGS ARE DISCONTINUED ON WESTERN LONG
 ISLAND WEST OF FIRE ISLAND...AND ELSEWHERE WEST OF NEW HAVEN
 CONNECTICUT.  A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NEW
 HAVE CONNECTICUT TO MERRIMACK RIVER MASSACHUSETTS...AND FOR EASTERN
 LONG ISLAND FROM FIRE ISLAND EASTWARD.
  
 TROPICAL STORM CENTER LOCATED NEAR 37.9N  74.9W AT 15/0300Z
 POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN  30 NM
  
 PRESENT MOVEMENT TOWARD THE NORTHEAST OR  40 DEGREES AT  30 KT
  
 ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE 1012 MB
 MAX SUSTAINED WINDS  35 KT WITH GUSTS TO  45 KT.
 34 KT....... 75NE  75SE  20SW   0NW.
 12 FT SEAS.. 75NE  75SE  20SW   0NW.
 WINDS AND SEAS VARY GREATLY IN EACH QUADRANT.  RADII IN NAUTICAL
 MILES ARE THE LARGEST RADII EXPECTED ANYWHERE IN THAT QUADRANT.
  
 REPEAT...CENTER LOCATED NEAR 37.9N  74.9W AT 15/0300Z
 AT 15/0000Z CENTER WAS LOCATED NEAR 36.9N  75.9W
  
 FORECAST VALID 15/1200Z 40.8N  71.6W...EXTRATROPICAL
 MAX WIND  30 KT...GUSTS  40 KT.
  
 FORECAST VALID 16/0000Z 44.1N  66.7W...EXTRATROPICAL
 MAX WIND  30 KT...GUSTS  40 KT.
  
 FORECAST VALID 16/1200Z 46.2N  62.0W...EXTRATROPICAL
 MAX WIND  30 KT...GUSTS  40 KT.
  
 FORECAST VALID 17/0000Z 47.3N  57.0W...EXTRATROPICAL
 MAX WIND  30 KT...GUSTS  40 KT.
  
 FORECAST VALID 18/0000Z 49.0N  48.0W...EXTRATROPICAL
 MAX WIND  30 KT...GUSTS  40 KT.
  
 EXTENDED OUTLOOK. NOTE...ERRORS FOR TRACK HAVE AVERAGED NEAR 250 NM
 ON DAY 4 AND 325 NM ON DAY 5...AND FOR INTENSITY NEAR 20 KT EACH DAY
  
 OUTLOOK VALID 19/0000Z...ABSORBED BY FRONTAL SYSTEM
 
 REQUEST FOR 3 HOURLY SHIP REPORTS WITHIN 300 MILES OF 37.9N  74.9W
  
 NEXT ADVISORY AT 15/0900Z
  
 FORECASTER BEVEN
  
  
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