User:CooperScience/Tropical Storm Chantal (2013)

Tropical Stom Chantal was a fast-moving tropical cyclone that affected the Lesser Antilles in July 2013. The third named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, Chantal developed from a surface trough that detached from a large tropical wave in the western Atlantic Ocean on July 5. After entering a favorable environment, the trough became a tropical storm, and was named Chantal. Despite the presence of wind shear, which exposed the center of circulation on the northern side of the deep convection, Chantal strengthened into a strong tropical storm with sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) as it passed just south of Martinique on July 9. As it entered the Caribbean Sea, the cloud pattern of Chantal began to deteriorate, and it degenerated into a tropical wave while located south of Hispaniola on July 10.