Flood Risk for Central America – NBC 7 Miami (51)

MIAMI, Florida – Tropical Storm Julia moved off the coast of El Salvador, continuing the risk of flash flooding and mudslides in Central America and southern Mexico.

According to Monday’s 5 a.m. ET bulletin The system is located 20 miles south of San Salvador, El Salvador, from the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

The system had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was moving west-northwest at 15 mph.

Further weakening is forecast over the next two days, but Julia is still expected to remain a tropical storm as it moves closer to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, according to NHC forecasts. Julia is expected to melt off the coast of Guatemala by Monday night.

Notifications and monitoring are in place

Tropical Storm Warning

• The entire Pacific coast of Honduras
• The entire coast of El Salvador

Tropical Storm Watch

• Pacific coast of Guatemala

Our meteorologist Pedro Montoro explains the formation and intensification of a hurricane step by step from the virtual lab.

The devastation caused by the passage of the cyclone

Julia, which was downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall in Nicaragua on Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane, has killed at least four people in landslides and flooding in Central America as a direct or indirect result of the natural phenomenon.

In Honduras, a 22-year-old woman died this Sunday after being dragged down a creek, and a man and a 6-year-old boy drowned while trying to cross the river. A girl is missing.

In Panama, a woman died Friday night in a landslide in the Caribbean province of Colon as a result of rains associated with Julia, the national civil protection agency told EFE.

Nicaraguan officials have not reported any deaths since Julia left the country on Sunday night, where the risk of disasters is high due to flooding rivers and possible landslides.