Many impromptu memorials Social_event were created Creating after the massacre Killing , including victims Rachel Scott 's car and John Tomlin 's truck .

The twenty-fourth tropical depression and eighteenth named storm , Rachel developed Coming_to_be on September 27 from a tropical wave southwest of mainland Mexico .

The depression intensified Cause_change_of_strength into a tropical storm after three days and was named `` Rachel '' by the National Hurricane Center .

Rachel continued to steadily strengthen , and peaked Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale as a strong 65 mph ( 100 km/h ) tropical storm on October 2 .

After attaining peak intensity , Rachel re-curved Motion to make a landfall in southern Baja California Sur and again in the Mexican Mainland on October 3 .