When was hurricane lenny

At this point, Lenny slowed as it moved into a col point between two mid-level ridges. The hurricane slowly weakened thereafter, perhaps due to upwelling caused by its slow motion. The center passed slowly over St. Barthelemy early on the 19th when it weakened back into a tropical storm.

Its final landfall in Antigua was made late on the 19th, before the cyclone moved eastward into the tropical Atlantic. The system weakened into a tropical depression late on the 20th, and on the 23rd was either absorbed by a new cyclone to its northwest or became extratropical. Hurricane warnings were in effect for the northeast Caribbean islands of Dutch St. Maarten, French St. Martin, St. Barthelemy, Anguilla, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, and Antigua and Barbuda.

Lenny weakened on Thursday to a strong Category Two on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, making it a moderate hurricane capable of damaging roofs, mobile homes and trees and flooding coastlines with storm surges up to eight feet 2.

It had bordered on being a potentially catastrophic Category Five hurricane on Wednesday when it smacked directly into St. Croix, one of three islands that make up the U. Virgin Islands. Charles Turnbull said the other two islands, St. Thomas and St. Johns, were "in relatively good shape. Richard Doumeng, president of the St. John Hotel Association, said hotels on the two islands fared well and would reopen before next week's Thanksgiving holiday.

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