Tropical Depression Short-Lived
United Press International
CAMERON, La. —
The hurricane season’s first tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico died early today, barely 24 hours after it was born, leaving scattered thunderstorms across Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
The weather system, which came ashore early today near Cameron, a Louisiana coastal town about 200 miles west of New Orleans, never gained the minimum 39-m.p.h. winds needed to be classified as a tropical storm.
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