Tropical Storm Gamma weakened Sunday into a tropical depression after it deluged the Central American coast. The storm struck Honduras at about 03:00 GMT on 20 November. Landfall was near 16.4 N, 85.8 W. Forecasters said the slow-moving Gamma, the 24th named storm of an already record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, was likely to miss Florida.
The storm's top sustained winds decreased to 35 mph _below the 39 mph needed to be considered a tropical storm. At 14:00 GMT, the depression was about 80 miles north-northeast of Limon, Honduras, and 195 miles east-southeast of Belize city.
