Tropical Storm Elsa – Day 8
Position: 32.1N 82.3W [10:00PM CDT 0300UTC].
Movement: North-Northeast [025°] near 16 mph [26 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 45 mph [ 85 kph].
Wind Gusts: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1006 mb.
Currently about 80 miles [ 125 km] Northwest of Brunswick, Georgia.
At 10AM CDT Elsa is coming ashore in Taylor County, Florida.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from Little River Inlet, South Carolina to Great Egg Inlet, New Jersey including Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds, Chesapeake Bay south of North Beach and the tidal Potomac south of Cobb Island and Delaware Bay south of Slaughter Beach.
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from north of Great Egg Inlet, New Jersey to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, Long Island from East Rockaway Inlet to the eastern tip along the south shore and from Port Jefferson Harbor eastward on the north shore, New Haven, Connecticut to Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts including Cape Cod, Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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