Tropical Depression Sixteen-E Makes Second, Final Landfall in Mexico

September 21,2015

• Tropical Depression Sixteen-E formed Sunday evening in the eastern Pacific Ocean about 90 miles west of Cabo San Lazaro, Mexico.
• It made its first landfall shortly before 11 p.m. PDT Sunday on the central part of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
• After crossing the Gulf of California, it made a second and final landfall around sunrise Monday near Bahia Kino, Sonora, in the northwestern part of Mexico's mainland.
• At 9 a.m. MDT Monday, the center of the depression was 160 miles from the border between Arizona and Mexico.
• The depression is expected to weaken and dissipate by tonight.
• However, if it makes it past the U.S. border while still a tropical cyclone, it would be the first tropical cyclone to move into Arizona fully intact since Nora in 1997, and only the seventh on record.
• Moisture from the system is expected to be drawn northward into portions of the Southwestern U.S. early this week.

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