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BOSTON—Don, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, is not expected to result in “significant insured losses” after having made landfall in south Texas late last week, according to Boston-based catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide Corp.
By the time the storm made landfall late Friday near Baffin Bay, Texas, Don had been downgraded to a tropical depression with winds of about 35 mph, according to AIR.
“Earlier in the week, as Don moved relatively quickly across the southern Gulf of Mexico toward Texas, it changed little in intensity, inhibited by the area of moderate vertical wind shear through which it was passing,” said Tim Doggett, principal scientist at AIR Worldwide, in a statement assessing the storm’s impact. “Though it tracked near several areas where offshore oil production is conducted, it avoided the largest concentrations of production platforms, which lie south of New Orleans. Hence, no damage to offshore rigs was reported from Don in the Gulf,” he said.
AIR noted that the area where Don made landfall, 40 miles south of Corpus Christi, Texas, is sparsely populated. “Following landfall, there have been few reports of damage,” said AIR in the statement. “Due to the sparse population of the landfall region and Don’s relatively weak winds, significant insured losses are not expected from this event.”
The first named storm of the season, Arlene,
made landfall in Mexico in late June.
TAMPICO, Mexico—The first named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to make landfall early Thursday in northeastern Mexico, the National Weather Service said Wednesday.