Tropical Storm Julio (2008)

Tropical Storm Julio

Tropical Storm Julio at peak intensity on August 24
Meteorological history
Formed	August 23, 2008
Remnant low	August 26, 2008
Dissipated	August 27, 2008
Tropical storm
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/NWS)
Highest winds	50 mph (85 km/h)
Lowest pressure	998 mbar (hPa); 29.47 inHg
Overall effects
Fatalities	2 direct
Damage	$1 million (2008 USD)
Areas affected	Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Arizona, Nevada, and California
IBTrACS
Part of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season

Tropical Storm Julio was a tropical storm that made landfall on the southern tip of Baja California Sur in August 2008. The eleventh named storm of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season, it developed from a tropical wave on August 23 off the coast of Mexico. It moved parallel to the coast, reaching peak winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) before moving ashore and weakening. On August 26 it dissipated in the Gulf of California. Julio was the third tropical cyclone to make landfall in the Eastern Pacific tropical cyclone basin during the season, after Tropical Storm Alma, which struck Nicaragua in May, and Tropical Depression Five-E, which moved ashore along southwestern Mexico in July. The storm brought locally heavy rainfall to southern Baja California, killing one person and leaving several towns isolated. Moisture from Julio reached Arizona, producing thunderstorms, including one which damaged ten small planes in Chandler.^[1]