A 2 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center said the tropical depression could become a named storm later in the day.
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While we await the upgrade to tropical storm status later today, Tropical Depression Nine continues to produce intense storms around the center of circulation but it still looks unorganized as a whole.
On Aug. 31 the NHC posted a hurricane watch from Anclote River to Indian Pass, Florida.
The National Hurricane Center has issued a tropical storm warning for Florida’s Gulf coast from the Anclote River to the Walton/Bay County Line. Hermine was forecast to make landfall Thursday night or Friday morning along the northwest coast of Florida.
The surge will be higher at points north, closer to where the storm is expected to make landfall in the Big Bend area, so it could exceed three feet in Hernando county. It was generating a lot of storms, but overall still appeared disorganized and the center was hard to locate. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour.
On Hermine’s present forecast track, wind gusts to 50 miles per hour, heavy rain and isolated tornadoes will be possible across Georgia and portions of SC.
Many took no chances with Hermine.
“The hurricane watch, by definition, means winds of hurricane-force would be possible”, he said.
The latest track has Hermine continuing toward the north with a turn to the northeast expected Thursday.
Forecasters warn there is risk of life-threatening flooding within the next 36 to 48 hours along the Gulf Coast of Florida from Aripeka to Indian Pass.
Although the system is expected to hit “somewhere well north of Tampa Bay”, Fleming said people should reduce travel and have a plan in case power outages occur. Some areas could see up to 15 inches of rain.
And the East Coast could get a lot of rain as well.
Residents on some islands and other low-lying, flood-prone areas in Florida had been urged to clear out. All watches and warnings for the system have been dropped.
A tropical storm warning for the North Carolina coast was dropped Tuesday night.
The center of the storm is expected to near the Outer Banks overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday, bringing drenching showers, thunderstorms and rough surf that will threaten the Carolina coast over the next day or so.
9 is showing a lot of new thunderstorm activity this morning, it continues to battle wind shear and dry air, and at 8 a.m.it remains a tropical depression. The depression is centered about 425 miles southwest of Tampa.
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Watch the video below for the latest forecast for the storm.
