Tropical Storm Gamma was the 24th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on November 18 from a tropical wave which had left the coast of Africa on November 3. Between November 13 and November 16 the system was designated Tropical Depression Twenty-Seven and moved westward through the Windward Islands into the Caribbean Sea. Although its winds were not of tropical storm force, the storm brought damagingly heavy rainfall to...
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Tropical Storm Gamma was the 24th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on November 18 from a tropical wave which had left the coast of Africa on November 3. Between November 13 and November 16 the system was designated Tropical Depression Twenty-Seven and moved westward through the Windward Islands into the Caribbean Sea. Although its winds were not of tropical storm force, the storm brought damagingly heavy rainfall to Trinidad and to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
On November 18, after a period of disorganization during which it appeared to be dissipating, the system strengthened and was upgraded to a tropical storm off the coast of Honduras and given the name Gamma. There, its torrential rainfall triggered deadly landslides. Gamma's winds and rains also reached into Belize, where they were less deadly. The storm dissipated on November 22, having killed 39 people.
Tropical Storm Gamma originated out of a tropical wave that moved off the western coast of...
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