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TROPICAL STORM JULIA FIRST TO FORM OVER LAND IN FLA.

- — Doyle Rice

Tropical Storm Julia earned the distinctio­n late Tuesday of becoming the first such system on record to form over land in Florida.

It also is the first to form over land anywhere in the USA in nearly three decades.

The last storm to do so was Tropical Storm Beryl, which developed over southeaste­rn Louisiana in 1988, according to meteorolog­ist Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University.

In Julia’s case, while the center of the storm technicall­y formed over land, most of the storm’s heavy rain and thundersto­rms were offshore, Klotzbach said.

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