Tropical Storm Colin to Land in Florida, Georgia on Monday
Mary Greeley News
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June 5, 2016 – mysanantonio.com – A tropical storm dubbed Colin has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is anticipated to make a landfall in Florida and Georgia by Monday afternoon, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Sunday.

A large portion of Florida’s western and Panhandle coast was already under a tropical storm warning when the National Hurricane Center announced that a quickly moving depression had become a named storm. The center said it is the earliest that a third named storm has ever formed in the Atlantic basin.

It is the latest in a series of severe whether events across the country, from record-breaking heat in the West, flooding in Texas and storms that are expected to cause problems in the nation’s capital and mid-Atlantic region.

The storm was moving at a speed of about 12 mph (19 kph) and was expected to pick up the pace later Sunday.

“It’s going to impact most of the state in some way,” Gov. Rick Scott said in a phone interview. “Hopefully we won’t have any significant issues here, but we can have some storm surge, some rain, tornados and some flooding.”

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The National Weather Service in Mobile issued a flood warning for the Shoal River near Crestview and warned of possible widespread flooding in streams, creeks, and canals. Wind gusts threatened to bring down trees and branches and cause power outages.

The Georgia coast and the north Florida Atlantic coast were placed under a tropical storm watch Sunday evening.

Sand bags were being distributed to residents in St. Petersburg, Tampa and nearby cities.