TD4 to Make Florida Panhandle Landfall as Claudette; Ana and Bill Following
GOES-12 captured TD4 about to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle on August 16 (far left), Tropical Storm Ana approaching the Leeward Islands (center) and Tropical Storm Bill (far right). Credit: NASA/GOES Project
GOES-12 captured TD4 about to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle on August 16 (far left), Tropical Storm Ana approaching the Leeward Islands (center) and Tropical Storm Bill (far right). Credit: NASA/GOES Project
Tropical Depression 4 formed from the low pressure area that NASA’s GOES satellite saw on Friday, August 14. On Sunday, August 16 the low was poised to make landfall in the Florida panhandle but not until it strengthens into Tropical Storm Claudette later on Sunday.
Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect on Sunday, August 16 from the Alabama/Florida border east to Suwanee River. At 8 a.m. EDT August 16, Tropical Depression 4 was 125 miles south-southeast of Apalachicola, FL with sustained winds near 35 mph. It was centered near 28.1 north and 84.1 west with a minimum central pressure near 1011 millibars.
TD4 is expected to make landfall tonight on the Florida panhandle bringing 3-5 inches of rain with isolated areas up to 10 inches, and a 3-5ft. storm surge along the coast. It will then track north into Alabama on Monday.
Residents should be prepared for gusty winds and flooding rains. For updates, visit the National Hurricane Center website at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov.
Live Radar of the Florida Panhandle: http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=EVX&product=NCR&overlay=11111111&loop=yes.
Tropical Depression 2 did become Tropical Storm Ana on Saturday, August 15 and is moving west toward Leeward Isles, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic over the next couple of days. Maximum sustained winds are near 40mph.
The third area in Atlantic forecasters were watching near Africa has now strengthened into Tropical Storm Bill with sustained winds near 45 mph. 1,640 miles east of the Lesser Antilles.
The GOES-12 satellite captured TD4 poised to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle, Tropical Depression Ana just east of the Lesser Antilles, and Tropical Storm Bill far to the east in the open ocean. The NASA GOES Project is operated out of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and creates imagery from the GOES satellite data.
Finally, in the Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Guillermo weakened with sustained winds near 100mph. He is still in the open ocean about 1,150 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii and no threat to land.
Text credit: Rob Gutro, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
