Tropical
Storm Andrea ready to pummel Florida with intense rain
Tropical
Storm Andrea is set to wallop Florida with torrential rainfall as it
prepares to make landfall Thursday.
CNN,
6
June, 2013
The
first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season made its debut
Wednesday by pummeling Cuba with heavy downpours.
As
of 2 a.m. ET Thursday, Andrea was 240 miles west-southwest of Tampa,
Florida, and was headed north at 10 mph, the National Hurricane
Center said.
Follow
the storm on CNN.com's hurricane tracker
The
center of Andrea is expected to make landfall on the Florida
Panhandle late Thursday before cutting across southern Georgia and
moving up the East Coast on Friday and Saturday.
Forecasters
don't expect Andrea to strengthen to a hurricane -- which would
require sustained winds of at least 74 mph. But its greatest trouble
will be water.
Andrea
is expected to unleash 3 to 6 inches of rain over much of Florida and
southeastern Georgia and as much as 8 inches in some areas. The
eastern parts of North and South Carolina could see up to 4 inches of
rain, the National Hurricane Center said.
"The
combination of a storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry
areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters," the
hurricane center said.
The
Florida peninsula could also see a few tornadoes Thursday.
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