Tropical Storm Nestor caused severe weather in Florida.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Nestor was located at latitude 29.7\u00b0N and longitude 85.1\u00b0W which put it about 5 miles (10 km) west of Apalachicola, Florida.\u00a0 Nestor was moving toward the east-northeast at 23 m.p.h. (38 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Ochlockonee River to Suwanee River, Florida.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nestor began a transition to an extratropical cyclone as it approached the coast of Florida.\u00a0 Strong westerly winds in the middle latitudes created significant vertical wind shear.\u00a0 In addition, the circulation around Nestor pulled cooler, drier air into the western and southern parts of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The effects of the upper level westerly winds and cooler, drier air caused the strongest rising motion to occur in bands well to the east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms occurred in bands southeast of the low level center.<\/p>\n
The vertical wind shear was strong enough that rotation developed in some of the thunderstorms over the Florida Peninsula.\u00a0 Several tornado warnings were issued on Friday night because radar indicated likely rotation.\u00a0 There were reports of property damage due to possible tornadoes in Cape Coral in Lee County, near Winston in Polk County, in Plant City in Hillsborough County and in Seminole in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Storm Nestor officially made landfall on St. Vincent Island west of Apalachicola on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Many of the stronger thunderstorms had moved east of Florida by Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 There were still bands of showers and thunderstorms moving over the Florida Peninsula.\u00a0 Flow diverging from a surface high pressure system centered over the northeastern U.S. was converging with the flow around the northern part of Tropical Storm Nestor.\u00a0 The convergence was generating a large area of rising motion.\u00a0 Showers and thunderstorms were occurring over northern Florida, southeastern Alabama, southern Georgia and parts of South Carolina.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nestor will move toward the northeast as an extratropical cyclone during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Nestor will move across southern Georgia and near the coast of South Carolina and North Carolina.\u00a0 The low pressure system will continue to drop rain over those areas.\u00a0 There has been below normal rainfall over the southeastern U.S. in recent weeks.\u00a0 So, the rain is unlikely to cause flooding in most places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Nestor caused severe weather in Florida.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Nestor was located at latitude 29.7\u00b0N and longitude 85.1\u00b0W which put it about 5 miles (10 km) west of Apalachicola, Florida.\u00a0 Nestor was moving toward the east-northeast at 23 m.p.h. (38 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[576,577,384,1755,1761,51,98,1758,1757,1754,1759,1760,1756,1762,99,1753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}