Tropical Storm Bonnie forms in the central Bahamas

Published: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 5:17 PM     Updated: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 5:50 PM

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National Hurricane Center, NOAA  

  

The National Hurricane Center reported at 5:15 p.m. that an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft had recorded surface winds of 40 mph with the third tropical depression of the Atlantic season, making it the named storm Tropical Storm Bonnie.

As of 5:15 p.m., Tropical Storm bonnie was centered at 22.9 degrees north latittude and 75.4 degrees west longitude, about 200 miles southeast of Nassau and about 415 miles east-southeast of Key West, Fla. It was moving to the northwest at 14 mph, with a minimum central pressure of 1,005 millibars or 29.68 inches.