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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1102 AM EDT WED AUG 30 2006

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COASTAL VOLUSIA-COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-
COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET OUT TO 20 NM-
FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH 20 NM TO 60 NM OFFSHORE-
FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH OUT TO 20 NM-INDIAN RIVER-
INLAND VOLUSIA-MARTIN-NORTHERN BREVARD-NORTHERN LAKE-OKEECHOBEE-
ORANGE-OSCEOLA-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD-SOUTHERN LAKE-ST. LUCIE-
1102 AM EDT WED AUG 30 2006

...TROPICAL DEPRESSION ERNESTO MOVING UP THE CENTER OF THE
FLORIDA PENINSULA...

AT 11 AM EDT...THE CENTER OF CIRCULATION OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION
ERNESTO WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE.

AS ERNESTO CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTH AT AROUND 10 MPH...RAIN BANDS
WITH EMBEDDED RAIN SQUALLS WILL COME ASHORE THE COAST FROM FLAGLER
AND ORMOND BEACHES SOUTH...AND MOVE QUICKLY INLAND TO THE INTERIOR
COUNTIES FROM WESTERN VOLUSIA TO OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES.

THROUGH 1 PM...ALTHOUGH ERNESTO HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED TO A TROPICAL
DEPRESSION IT WILL STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING RAINBANDS WITH
EMBEDDED HEAVY SHOWERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH OVER THE BREVARD AND
VOLUSIA COUNTY COAST. RADAR WAS DETECTING BRIEF...HEAVY RAIN COMING
ASHORE FROM MOSQUITO LAGOON IN NORTHERN BREVARD TO PALM COAST AND
FLAGLER BEACH WHICH ARE LOCATED NORTH OF DAYTONA BEACH. RADAR
RAINFALL ESTIMATES HAVE BEEN TO 2 INCHES IN CELLS LOCATED EAST OF
MOSQUITO LAGOON AND CAPE CANAVERAL.

LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL SWEEP ACROSS INTERIOR SECTIONS MAINLY
NORTH AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 4.

ANOTHER AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 30
ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION ERNESTO WILL
PUSH QUICKLY ACROSS MARTIN...OKEECHOBEE AND SAINT LUCIE COUNTIES

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WIMMER