JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Tropical Storm Debby is crawling toward the east at 5 mph and could bring dangerous flooding to portions of the Carolinas. this week.
As of the 5 a.m. Tuesday National Hurricane Center update, Debby was about 90 miles east of Savannah with maximum sustained winds of 45mph.
Tropical storm warnings have expired for our entire area and Debby will have little to no impact on our area going forward. Evening showers WEdnesday around the circulation center will impact our coastal areas tonight. West winds will blow from 15-20 this afternoon.
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A slow motion toward the east and then north is expected through Thursday night. On the forecast track, the center of Debby is expected to move offshore from the coast of Georgia later today and tonight, continue to drift offshore through early Thursday, and then move inland over South Carolina on Thursday.
Hurricane Debby’s eastern eyewall hit Dixie County on Monday morning, bringing gusts to 95 mph at Horseshoe Beach as the storm made landfall near Steinhatchee around 7 a.m.
Debby, potentially a historic rainmaker, started pounding the Gulf Coast on Sunday and is already responsible for several deaths, including a 12-year-old in a crash and a 13-year-old who died when a tree crushed his mobile home.
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