JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center issues warnings for a potential tropical cyclone 1.
A tropical storm called soon (the next 24 hours).
This system is a storm at the beginning of the season and will only do so slowly increase in strength.
The NHC expects this system to become Tropical Storm Alex by lunchtime Friday. The expected runway is exactly what we’ve been talking about live on the air: a runway in South Florida, near Lake Okeechobee and then into the Atlantic.
This track will withstand much of the heavy rainfall and impact far of Jacksonville.
Central and South Florida can see up to 8 inches of rain in some neighborhoods and heavy rainstorms through Friday and Saturday afternoons.
Alex will be a very torn system with much of the worst weather away from the center of the storm. Therefore, when tracking the storm, do not look in the middle of the storm to see where the worst of the bad weather is.
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Here’s the 10 a.m. notice:
At 10 a.m. CDT, the disturbance centered near latitude 22.3 north and longitude 86.8 west. The system is moving northeast at about 5 mph (7 km / h), and this general movement is expected to continue with an increase in forward speed starting today. In terms of forecasting, the system is expected to move through the southeastern Gulf of Mexico until tonight, across the southern and central parts of the Florida Peninsula on Saturday, and then across the southwestern Atlantic to the south. north northwest of the Bahamas from Saturday afternoon to Sunday.
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Maximum sustained winds are around 40 mph (65 km / h) with higher gusts. The system is expected to develop a well-defined center and become a tropical storm later today, and a slight strengthening is possible as it approaches Florida today and tonight. Additional reinforcement is possible after the system moves east Florida over the western Atlantic on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
* possibility of training for 48 hours … high … 90 percent.
* possibility of training for 5 days … high … 90 percent.
Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 70 miles (110 km) from the center.
The estimated minimum central pressure based on hurricane hunter aircraft data is 1002 mb (29.59 inches).
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