Around October 15, a broad low pressure system formed in the southwestern Caribbean just east of Nicaragua. The system drifted northwest only very slowly over the next few days, but brought heavy rains to a broad swath of central America. In the early hours of October 19, it became organized enough to be designated Tropical Storm Nadine east of Belize. Nadine organized rapidly but was quickly running out of water as it moved due west. Just before noon, the storm made landfall in Belize with peak winds of 60 mph. After landfall, the storm weakened steadily. It weakened to a tropical depression over Guatemala and turned west-southwest until dissipation on October 20.
The image above shows a strengthening Nadine just before landfall in Belize.
Nadine was a short-lived but large tropical storm which had significant flooding impacts.
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