NEW YORK Aug 3 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures rose more than $1 to above $82 a barrel on Tuesday as the dollar weakened broadly and as the market awaited weekly inventory data expected to show crude oil stockpiles in the United States fell last week.
Sources said buy stops were triggered above the $82.10 level, helping lift crude prices.
Formation of the Atlantic hurricane season's third named storm, Tropical Storm Colin, also helped support oil prices despite most computer models showing the storm avoiding Gulf of Mexico energy operations.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, September crude CLU0 rose 98 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $82.32 a barrel by 9:04 a.m. EDT (1304 GMT), trading from $81.11 to $82.47, the highest front-month crude price since prices reached $82.83 on May 5. (Reporting by Robert Gibbons)
