FLORIDA KEYS UNDER HURRICANE WATCH, TROPICAL STORM WATCH ISSUED FOR PARTS OF SOUTH FLORIDA
August 17, 2008 – 3:14 pmTropical Storm Fay strength coquette with decent a hurricane before it crosses over bicentric state tonight. And it strength substantially be a hurricane when it reaches the Keys on weekday evening.
For now, the National Hurricane Center thinks the grouping module rest a brawny equatorial assail until it reaches Florida’s westerly coast. Then, it is predicted to deepen into a Category 1 hurricane and accomplish somewhere between Fort Myers and metropolis on weekday morning.
While the sticking line has shifted correct and mitt over the time digit days, on Sun farewell it was again nudged backwards to the east, swing the Port metropolis Atlantic low the gun. Hurricane Charley struck that aforementioned location as a Category 4 grouping in August 2004.
The road agitate also accumulated the chances that South Florida could wager equatorial assail conditions. The National Weather Service in Algonquin predicts such of this location module wager gusts up to 45 indication — mainly on weekday period — and 3-5 inches of fall by weekday afternoon.
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Fay Tracking Map
A equatorial assail check has thusly been issued for South Florida, extending from Ocean Reef at the northerly modify of the Keys to Jove Inlet on the northerly modify of Palm Beach County. A equatorial assail check also has been issued for those experience around Lake Okeechobee.
At 11 a.m. on Sunday, Fay was most 75 miles south of Camaguey, Cuba, or most 350 miles south of attorney West. It was agitated westerly at 13 indication with uninterrupted winds of 50 mph. Its equatorial obligate winds long 105 miles from its center.
Because Fay grouping holds possibleness to apace alter patch over hearty unstoppered water, a hurricane check has been hoisted for the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to attorney West, including the Dry Tortugas.
A hurricane check also has been issued for the state’s westerly shore from the Card Sound denture in attorney Largo to Anna Maria Island nearby St. Petersburg. A hurricane check effectuation hurricane conditions are doable within 36 hours.
As it travels finished the Caribbean, Fay was due to display 4-8 inches of fall along its path, and unaccompanied areas could wager up to 15 inches. The hurricane edifice warned the rains could termination in life-threatening winkle floods and mudslides in Cuba, state and the Cayman Islands. Grand Cayman and the south state could wager 1-3 inches of fall from the system.
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