A persistent area of controversy is the relationship between the LCF and a socially conservative campaign group, Christian Concern, which other evangelical Christians increasingly regard as extreme.
On August 28, a persistent area of low pressure southwest of Acapulco, Mexico developed into a tropical depression.
On July 4, a persistent area of thunderstorms organized into a tropical depression.
Tropical Storm Erin formed on August 16 in the Gulf of Mexico from a persistent area of convection.
On May 12, a persistent area of thunderstorms formed within a monsoon trough 220 mile southwest of Palau.
Typhoon Sudal originally formed on April 2, 2004 out of a persistent area of convection east of the FSM.
In late October, the ITCZ developed a persistent area of convection west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The system contained an exposed low-level circulation, which intermittently passed beneath a persistent area of convection to its northeast.
The fifth named storm of the season, it formed in the Gulf of Mexico on August 14 from a persistent area of convection.
After being previously removed from the primary thunderstorm activity, the circulation became situated beneath a persistent area of deep convection.
