tropical storm larry tropical storm larry twelfth tropical storm atlantic hurricane season storms impact mexico pacific atlantic oceans season near record larry formed early october extratropical storm reached peak intensity mph weak steering currents storm moved southward resulted storm hitting coastline storm landfall tropical storm larry drifted dropping heavy rainfall places rainfall led flooding mudslides causing damage thousands houses flooding killed people resulted million usd damage larry tropical cyclones hit mexico short period time including tropical depression tropical storm meteorological history tropical wave moved coast africa september moved shear ridden atlantic_ocean development remained disorganized reaching western caribbean_sea september wave situated beneath upper level anticyclone allowing favorable upper level outflow deep convection develop september low pressure area developed system located miles east yucatán_peninsula system continued organize nearly developed tropical depression moving ashore yucatán_peninsula september dry air land weakened tropical wave entered area merged stationary frontal boundary cool dry air system caused system develop cold core area organized extratropical low september large high pressure system northern gulf_of_mexico forced system southward developed significant convection system developed warm core october storm organized tropical storm larry located east southeast mexico weak steering currents allowed larry drift westward mph marginally favorable conditions allowed storm strengthen peak mph october mid level ridge forced storm south southeast remaining mph storm days larry landfall mexican state october steadily weakened land degenerated remnant low october mid way remnant low turned southwest reached eastern pacific_ocean october remnants larry organized eastern pacific national_hurricane_center indicating possibility redevelopment tropical depression october convection diminished development longer anticipated preparations erratic motion mexican government issued tropical storm warning hurricane watch early larry lifetime veracruz watches warnings extended westward 4th extended eastward october threat storm officials closed oil ports company reserves sure profits weren disrupted addition storm closed shipping ports veracruz mexican government placed coastal states maximum alert authorities set evacuation shelters people storm government declared eastern mexico state emergency impact tropical storm larry storms hit mexico atlantic_ocean pacific_ocean highest record national_hurricane_center expected storm produce storm surge feet high waves official surge readings reported highest recorded winds land mph worst larry effects came rainfall peaking inches southeastern mexico highest hour rainfall total inches locations reported inches hours flooding damaged houses mexico combination damage damage greatest capital houses affected rainfall caused mudslides country individuals central flooding caused severe crop damage larry path strong wind gusts caused outages telephone power services larry caused deaths million damage usd million usd el_salvador rainfall remnants larry combined previous rainfall caused mudslides flooding forcing thousand people evacuate flooding destroyed damaged hundreds houses aftermath tropical storm larry hit mexico time tropical storms provided aid families country launched international appeal aid appeal raised usd distributed food places delivered family citizens school kits total people benefited operation
Tropical Storm Larry (2003)