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HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
515 PM EDT WED AUG 30 2006

...TROPICAL DEPRESSION ERNESTO CHURNS ITS WAY NORTH ACROSS CENTRAL
FLORIDA...

 ...AREAS AFFECTED...
THIS STATEMENT IS FOR RESIDENTS OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...INCLUDING
MARTIN...SAINT LUCIE...OKEECHOBEE...INDIAN RIVER...BREVARD...
OSCEOLA...ORANGE...SEMINOLE...VOLUSIA...AND LAKE COUNTIES.

...WATCHES/WARNINGS...
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT NORTH OF SEBASTIAN
INLET...BUT HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR AREAS FARTHER SOUTH.

AN INLAND TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR VOLUSIA AND
BREVARD COUNTIES.

...STORM INFORMATION...
AT 500 PM EDT THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION ERNESTO
WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 27.6 NORTH...LONGITUDE 80.8 WEST OR ABOUT
25 MILES WEST OF VERO BEACH FLORIDA AND ABOUT 55 MILES SOUTH-
SOUTHWEST OF CAPE CANAVERAL.

THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH NEAR 14 MPH. MAXIMUM
SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 35 MPH.

...PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
RESIDENTS OF VOLUSIA AND BREVARD COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN VIGILANT
FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF MINIMAL TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS THIS
EVENING...MAINLY IN GUSTS. ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EAST CENTRAL
FLORIDA...TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED.

MARINERS SHOULD REMAIN IN PORT UNTIL ERNESTO EXITS THE REGION
TONIGHT...AS WINDS AND SEAS REMAIN ELEVATED TODAY AND THIS EVENING.

...WINDS...
THE CIRCULATION OF ERNESTO REMAINS WEAK...BUT MAY RESTRENGTHEN
SLIGHTLY AFTER MOVING BACK OFFSHORE THE CENTRAL FLORIDA COAST THIS
EVENING. MINIMAL TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS...WITH OCCASIONAL WINDS
NEAR 40 MPH...MAINLY IN GUSTS...WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS VOLUSIA
AND BREVARD COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STRONGEST WIND
GUSTS WILL LIKELY OCCUR NEAR THE COAST AS OCCASIONAL SHOWERS SPREAD
ONSHORE.

ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...WINDS MAY GUST TO 25
TO 35 MPH DURING TIMES OF PASSING SHOWERS THIS EVENING.

...STORM SURGE AND STORM TIDE...
STEADY ONSHORE FLOW WILL ADD LESS THAN 2 FEET TO THE HIGH TIDE CYCLE
NEAR MIDNIGHT. RISES WITHIN THE INTRACOASTAL WATERS SHOULD BE
MINIMAL...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF BREVARD COUNTY.

...INLAND FLOODING...
A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA.
RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL OCCUR IN A SMALL REGION ALONG
AND EAST OF THE TRACK OF THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION...WITH ISOLATED
AMOUNTS UP TO 6 INCHES POSSIBLE. LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING
MAY OCCUR IN AREAS WHICH EXPERIENCED REPEATED HEAVY RAINS.

...TORNADOES...
AN ISOLATED SHORT-LIVED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY
EVENING...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE COAST.

...MARINE...
TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS
THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS WILL BRIEFLY REACH 30 TO 35 KNOTS WITH
OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 40 KNOTS IN SQUALLS...PRIMARILY IN RAINBANDS AND
NEAR THE CENTER OF THE DEPRESSION AS IT MOVES OFFSHORE. SEAS WILL
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BUILD TO BETWEEN 6 AND 9 FEET AND CONTINUE INTO
TONIGHT ALONG THE TRACK OF THE DEPRESSION.

...NEXT UPDATE...
THE NEXT HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
IN MELBOURNE WILL BE ISSUED AROUND MIDNIGHT OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS
WARRANT.

A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT CAN BE FOUND
ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE WEB SITE AT

WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MLB/GHLS/HLS_MAIN.HTML

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