Tropical depression Sara was located on the night of Sunday, November 17th, south of Campeche, causing intense rainfall in that state, as well as in Chiapas and Quintana Roo.
Meanwhile, according to the National Water Commission (Conagua), the meteorological phenomenon is expected to cause heavy to very heavy rainfall in Campeche, Tabasco, and Yucatan, as well as the possible fall of hail.
“In addition to winds with gusts of 60 to 80 km/h, waves of 1 to 3 meters high on the coasts of Quintana Roo and wind gusts of 40 to 60 km/h in Campeche and Yucatan,” the agency said in a statement.
It also said that the possible formation of waterspouts is estimated on the coasts of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo.
During Sunday afternoon, the National Meteorological Service of Conagua reported that Sara was downgraded to a tropical depression. This happened at 12:15 p.m. when the phenomenon was located 85 kilometers (km) west of Belize and 145 km south of Chetumal, Quintana Roo.
In a statement, Civil Protection assured that it continued to reinforce inter-institutional actions of the three levels of government to provide care to the communities that suffer effects from the path of this cyclonic system.
In Campeche, personnel from the Civil Protection Secretariat in accompaniment with the City Council, made tours of the Castilla Brito and Pioneros del Río bridges in the municipality of Calakmul, as part of the prevention and surveillance actions in the face of the arrival of tropical depression Sara.
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