Posted on 09/21/2007 9:16:30 AM PDT by stm
EUSTIS, Fla. — Severe weather, including a possible tornado, damaged about 50 homes in central Florida before the system became a subtropical depression Friday and had parts of the Gulf Coast under tropical storm warnings.
One person suffered a minor cut in Eustis, and no other injuries were reported in the area about 30 miles northwest of Orlando, Lake County sheriff's Sgt. John Herrell said. Crews went door to door to make sure everyone was safe after the storm.
"It's amazing — we're completely blessed," said Brett MacLaughlin, who safely rode out the storm with his mother and stepfather in a bathroom as tree limbs crashed through windows outside. "The entire neighborhood is very blessed."
Radar indicated a tornado touched down late Thursday from a storm system that crossed through the state before spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said.
That system developed into a subtropical depression hours later, with tropical storm warnings posted from Apalachicola in Florida's Panhandle westward to the mouth of the Mississippi River, including New Orleans, the National Hurricane Center said.
At 11 a.m. EDT, the depression had top sustained winds of about 35 mph and was centered about 45 miles southwest of Apalachicola. The depression's center will be moving nearly parallel to the coastline Friday, forecasters said. Rain and wind from the system were still over parts of Florida.
Herrell said 20 houses were uninhabitable and about 30 other homes have broken windows, debris from fallen tree branches and roof damage. He said the second story was shorn off one house, but the residents escaped unharmed.
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I guess Bush restarted his Magical Hurricane Machine...you know the one he used to level New Orleans two years ago.
I live in Hudson, just north of Tampa. About 7 last night we were on the porch and all of a sudden it was like a hurricane. The rain was going sideways, in huge quantities, and the trees were bending from the wind.
All night we were getting really wild lightning and thunder. This was a good one.
It amounts to a lot of rain and some wind.
After going thru 7 hurricanes (Camille, Agnes, Eloise, Elena, Kate, Erin and Opal), this one is just some welcome rain.
I agree. I don’t even start getting nervous until it becomes a Category 2 hurricane. After Ivan, everything is a piece of cake.
I live in Destin....I noticed you left Ivan off that list.
I thought that boy was gonna suck the roof off my house.
I don’t think I’ll even turn off the sprinklers for this one.
So how many of these “sub-tropical” depressions have ever been counted before this year? I’ve never heard of this before. I guess it helps to inflate the storm count for the year by doing this.
We just got "sideswiped" by Ivan so I didn't count him. He did knock out our electricity for a couple days from falling trees pulling down power lines.
Does it have a name?
(If not I suggest Maria. You know like: "They Call the Wind Maria.")
ML/NJ
“Ten” right now. It won’t get named until it becomes a tropical storm. Right now it’s just a tropical depression. No biggie.
I think my neighborhood was completely blessed more than his neighborhood. We didn't see any storms at all.
My local paper has a daily weather map; this storm was already named Jerry here.
Jerry will be the name of the next TS or hurricane when it does form.
I’ve been hoping it comes in far enough east to come through Nashville, we haven’t had squat for rain this year and my lawnmower work is zero.
STD — mostly because it has no organized center yet, I believe.
bump
Subtropical Cyclone:
A non-frontal low pressure system that has characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones.
The most common type is an upper-level cold low with circulation extending to the surface layer and maximum sustained winds generally occurring at a radius of about 100 miles or more from the center. In comparison to tropical cyclones, such systems have a relatively broad zone of maximum winds that is located farther from the center, and typically have a less symmetric wind field and distribution of convection.
A second type of subtropical cyclone is a mesoscale low originating in or near a frontolyzing zone of horizontal wind shear, with radius of maximum sustained winds generally less than 30 miles. The entire circulation may initially have a diameter of less than 100 miles. These generally short-lived systems may be either cold core or warm core.
Civilization ends when the power goes out...
I just hope those feeder bands don’t get too crazy.
I gots football games to watch this weekend.
I doubt it will form much of one either. Right now it’s just a mass of clouds and rain.
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