NAGS HEAD (AP) — Gabrielle, struggling to stay organized as it pulled away from the North Carolina coast, weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression early Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.
The storm lost many of its rainmaking clouds over land, and weakened to maximum sustained winds of 35 mph over cooler water.
The storm's small center made landfall along the Cape Lookout National Seashore as a Tropical Storm at around 11:45 a.m. Sunday, then passed back into the Atlantic near Kill Devil Hills less than 12 hours later, moving northeast at about 10 mph.
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