There will be some gusty winds with gusts to 50 miles per hour possible in the southern OBX, and gusts to 30 in the northern OBX and for Southeast Virginia.
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As for airports in the area, there are reported delays and cancellations at Southwest Florida International Airport, Orlando International Airport and Tampa International Airport, among others.
The National Hurricane Center said Colin is speeding toward the northeast near 33 miles per hour (54 kph) and this motion is expected to continue with an increase in forward speed today and tonight.
Colin was expected to make landfall north of Cedar Key and move across the state to the Atlantic near Jacksonville either late Monday or early this morning. Flooding remained a concern in the Tampa Bay region, where some communities were soaked with more than 10 inches of rain.
Forecasters said storm surge and high tide could combine to flood normally dry areas along Florida’s coastline.
Given Colin’s current trajectory, all tropical storm warnings for SC have officially been lifted.
CBS Jacksonville affiliate WJAX-TV reports residents of a mobile home park suspect a tornado touched down Monday, leaving many customers without power.
The state is bracing for flooding, with Florida Gov. Rick Scott declaring a state of emergency early Monday. A large portion of Florida’s western and Panhandle coast was already under a tropical storm warning when the National Hurricane Center announced that a swift-moving depression had become a named storm.
This false-colored AIRS infrared image from NASA’s Aqua satellite of Tropical Storm Storm Colin showed cold cloud top temperatures (purple) of strong storms on June 7. The tropical storm will then head to Florida’s northwestern coast and the Atlantic Ocean.
“Looking at South Florida, we’re mostly out of the way”, said John Cangialosi, a hurricane specialist with the National Weather Service in Miami-Dade.
The residents in the town of St. Marks just south of Tallahassee are preparing for the coming of the said tropical storm.
This story will be updated as the National Hurricane Center issues more advisories. This is also only the third time we’ve ever seen a C-named storm in June. Rainfall amounts could range from 1 to 2 inches in north and south Florida, to as much as 4 or 5 inches in part of central Florida.
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Amid worsening winds, officials also closed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning Tampa Bay.
