Tropical Storm Alberto. Landfall Expected by Midday. 8 a.m. Update Post 84

[Feralpeg]

Just great! Now I have to worry about my animals at home being blown away! DD and I are in a hotel in Tallahassee. We are here for two days for DD's FSU orientation. So, you can imagine how happy I was to hear that Alberto was heading up to the big bend area. It will be a very wet day on camput tomorrow! I wish I was home with my animals! I hope Alberto moves through quickly so we can head home on Wednesday.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

Can you give us all an idea of where you are? My weather radio just started to scream about tornado watches. It's going to be a long night folks. Be safe out there!

Anne

I am in Pinellas. I don't think it was as bad as the news thought last night. I think because the Tornados were moving so fast that they just kept moving North.

MAN OH MAN - We are getting the winds today. But it is bright sunny skies here, at least for now.

 

[ADisneygirl]

It is so windy this morning! At least the sun is peaking through. Didn't put our trash out for fear it would get blown away last night. I was really quite scared to go to bed last night with all those tornado beeps that kept going off on the tv. Something about air signatures that the radar could detect. I don't think they really formed any like we imagine a tornado must look like, but all the same it was scary.

I had something happen to the ridge vent on top of the house -- that silvery thing along the top edge of the roof peak. I think it got loose because last night we went into the attic and could see water was dripping through it! Oh, not fun, not fun.

 

[Virgo10]

Well that was the night from HELL! Around 1:30 a.m. my weather radio went off. I started listening, mostly still asleep, and it informed me that there was a tornado in the NEXT TOWN! Needless to say, I came to full consciousness in a nano second.

The town they were talking about was Polk City, just north of us about 6 miles away. I staggered out to the TV and flipped on the news to find out that, yes, it was in Polk City but more like 10-15 miles from us. As with so many towns down here, you have the populated area and then you have a land mass that makes up the town. This was about as far away from us as you could get and still say it was in Polk City.

I was so unnerved by all of this, that it was nearly 4 a.m. before I got back to sleep. Today will not be a high productivity day. I've only been up for an hour and I'm ready to go back to bed.

There were so many warnings last night. Hope all the Disers that live in and around this area are OK.

I HATE TORNADOES!!!

Tropical Storm Public Advisory


Statement as of 8:00 am EDT on June 13, 2006



...Alberto nearing the northeast Gulf of Mexico coast...

a Hurricane Warning remains in effect for the Gulf Coast of Florida
from Longboat Key to the Ochlockonee River. Preparations to
protect life and property should have already been completed.

A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect south of Longboat Key to
Englewood...and west of the Ochlockonee River to Indian Pass.
A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for the Atlantic coast
from Flagler Beach Florida northward to South Santee River South
Carolina.

For storm information specific to your area...including possible
inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued
by your local weather office.

At 800 am EDT...1200z...the center of Tropical Storm Alberto was
located near latitude 29.5 north...longitude 84.2 west or about 50
miles... 80 km...east-southeast of Apalachicola Florida and about 75
miles...120 km...west-northwest of Cedar Key Florida.

Alberto is moving toward the northeast near 9 mph...15 km/hr...and
this general motion is expected to continue until landfall around
midday today.

Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph...100 km/hr...with higher
gusts. There is now only a slight possibility that Alberto will
become a hurricane prior to landfall.

Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 175 miles...280 km
from the center.

The latest minimum central pressure reported by the Air Force
Reserve hurricane hunters was 995 mb...29.38 inches.

Coastal storm surge flooding of 7 to 9 feet above normal tide
levels can be expected mainly to the east and south of where the
center makes landfall.

Storm total rainfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches...with isolated
maximum amounts to 10 inches...are possible over portions of
Florida and southern Georgia through today. Storm total amounts of
3 to 5 inches are expected over South Carolina and the coastal
plains of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia through
Wednesday.

Isolated tornadoes are possible over portions of central and
northern Florida...southern Georgia...and southern South Carolina
today.

Repeating the 800 am EDT position...29.5 N...84.2 W. Movement
toward...northeast near 9 mph. Maximum sustained winds...65 mph.
Minimum central pressure...995 mb.

The next advisory will be issued by the National
Hurricane Center at 1100 am EDT.

 

[safetymom]

Sorry to hear about the night you had. I should get a weather radio. I slept right through so if anything had been going on here I wouldn't have known it.

 

[mom2of2]

I'm right there with you Kathy. Guess I should get one of them as well.

 

[Ted and Holly]

Sorry to hear about the night you had. I should get a weather radio. I slept right through so if anything had been going on here I wouldn't have known it.

Me too! And I am just around the corner from Virgo!

 

[Virgo10]

Come on you people without the radios. Off you go to Radio Shack to get a radio today or tomorrow. Even if it's right only once, it will be worth all the aggravations of waking us up during the night for a false alarm.

 

[ducklite]

My weather radio went off at least half a dozen times between midnight and 5:30 this morning. Due to where I live I get the warnings from Everyhwere from Daytona to Tampa. Ugh.

I think the most unnerving one was around 4:00am tornado warnings in Winter Garden.

I need to set that thing to leave me alone during "watches" and only wake me up for "warnings." And not to bother me with tropical storm/hurricane updates, I mean DUH, I kind know that it's coming my way...

Anne

 

[icebrat001]

A weather radio, sounds like a good idea, but I wonder if I would hear it. I can sleep through a 6.0 earthquake with no problems.

 

[Virgo10]

A weather radio, sounds like a good idea, but I wonder if I would hear it. I can sleep through a 6.0 earthquake with no problems.

Trust me, you'll hear it!

 

[safetymom]

Maybe we could start a phone chain. The one with the weather radio calls the next person and wakes us up.

 

[mom2of2]

lol! sounds good to me. I only want to know if it's going to happen...not that it "might" happen.
It's absolutely pouring right now, my yard is littered with palm frauns and someone else's garbage can.
My pool is also getting very full..........nothing that a great big cannonball wouldn't fix though!!!!!

 

[safetymom]

Pat, We just got that heavy downpour. But the sun is trying to come out now. The landscapers came in the middle of it. No way to cut the grass when it was raining like that.

 

[Feralpeg]

I can honestly say that today was one of the most miserable days I've ever had. The wind was blowing and the rain was very heavy. We had to walk across the campus several times. My shoes are wet (only brought one pair with me). I was wringing water out of my shorts. I had on a poncho and had an umbrella, but it did very little good. The umbrella kept turning inside out. As soon as we got back to the hotel, I jumped into a hot shower. I was absolutely chilled. Although it is still raining, it has really let up. We will drive home tomorrow. I hope it is clear!

 

[ducklite]

Peg,

I'm looking at a partly cloudy sky here right now, with lots of blue trying to poke through. We'll probably get some off and on showers for the rest of the night, and there's still a good breeze, but nothing unmanageable. I'm thinking it's very likely I'll take out the roadster tomorrow--no way I was driving her yesterday or today!

Anne

 

[Figment22]

Well, Alberto's moved on up into the Carolinas. We've had several tornado warnings in the surrounding areas in the past few hours, which I hate, and lots of rain. We too, needed the rain in SC but I now have three rivers in the open area behind my back yard. Too much, too fast. I think it's going to be a LONG night here.