A tropical wave moved off the African coast on August 16th and traveled westward across theAtlantic Ocean. As it neared the Caribbean Sea, the track became more west-northwest. On the23rd, it moved under an upper-level cold low. By the 27th, the associated weather moved north of the upper cyclone, which had spread across the Bahamas and Florida. On the 28th, the disturbance moved into the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and organized into a tropical depression on the 29th about 200 nautical miles south-southwest of New Orleans, a tropical storm on the morning of the 30th,and a hurricane that night. Its track was west-southwest through much of the Gulf of Mexico with some minor fluctuations in track, until Anita made landfall as a strong category 4 urricane along the coast of east-central Mexico 80 nautical miles north of Tampico, Mexico near the town of Soto La Marina around dawn on September 2nd, which received 15.20″ of rain. The system emerged into the eastern Pacific and was redesignated Tropical Depression 11. The depression moved quickly westward and dissipated after passing south of Baja California on the 4th.

The graphics below show the storm total rainfall for Anita. Rainfall information from the United States was obtained from the National Climatic Data enter. Rainfall information from Mexico was obtained from the Comision Nacional del Agua, the parent agency of their national weather service. Note the maxima lie on either side of its track across northeast Mexico.

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