Tropical Storm Warnings are still in place for coastal counties in the Grand Strand.
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“It’s important to note that the strongest winds and heaviest rains are well removed from the center”, the hurricane center said. On June 6, 2016 at 16:20 UTC (12:20 p.m. EDT) NASA’s Terra satellite captured a visible light image of Tropical Storm Colin over the Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical Storm Colin was gaining speed and strength Monday on its way to strike Florida, threatening rains forecasters said could cause some serious flooding along much of the state’s Gulf coast.
The Weather Channel is reporting that by late Tuesday afternoon, the storm should move out to sea, but will drop heavy rain on North and SC before it is through. “Hopefully, we won’t have any significant issues here, but we can have some storm surge, some rain, tornadoes and some flooding”.
The severe weather pounded the island, dumping rain and forcing emergency officials to close schools and shut down roads and the boat docks.
The likely refill of Florida aquifers is cheering to meteorologists, but the state still prepared for the damages of a tropical storm in the short-term. According to the local National Weather Service office in Newport/Morehead City, N.C., Tropical Storm Colin is located 730 miles southwest of Buxton but will quickly move northeast overnight and Tuesday along the North Carolina coast.
The National Hurricane Center said Colin marked the earliest that a third named storm has ever formed in the Atlantic basin. Flood warnings remain in effect for 24 counties.
Rainfall is expected to diminish across northern Florida, coastal Georgia, and eastern SC this morning.
“This is a fairly quick-moving storm”, Myers said.
No rain was reported early Tuesday across the state, although earlier rain has brought the usual street flooding in downtown Charleston.
“These first three storms have been very weak systems, even though Bonnie produced a lot of rain in South Carolina”, CNN meteorologist Tom Sater said. Winds onshore have averaged near 20 miles per hour but they will increase and gust to the right of Colin’s path. However, Colin is also expected to lose its tropical cyclone characteristics by Monday night.
By Wednesday afternoon, forecasters said, the storm will be in the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s expected to hug the U.S. East Coast, pummeling the Carolinas as it heads northeast Tuesday.
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