HURRICANE IRENE tracking models AT THIS HOUR are showing a slight easterly shift after Tuesday evening, August 23rd. However, the entire southeastern United States at THIS HOUR is still in the high strike probability cone. With most of southeastern Florida and the Atlantic Coasts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas in the highest probability area of involvement, persons in these areas should be monitoring local information broadcasts hourly.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami has published a MAJOR event for Irene as a Category 3 hurricane or higher as it approaches southeastern Florida, eastern Florida and the Georgia and Carolinas coastline. Persons in some of these areas can expect exceptionally high tides starting late Wednesday into the weekend, storm surges, high wave action, rip currents, beach erosion, wind damage to buildings and other structures, tornadoes spawned by the outer bands of the storm, lightning, extremely heavy rains, power outages due to downed trees, lowlands flooding and road closures.
This is a serious storm situation. The track will place this storm over very warm waters for a longer period of time and this will allow Irene to gather strength fairly quickly.
We will post additional details as necessary.
For up to the minute official advisories and information, please visit the NHC website in Miami:
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“THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ADVISORY. These updates and advisories are based upon information from our own computer models, NOAA, Local Weather Data Centers, deep water Buoy Data, and other publicly available sources. FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR PROPERTY AND PERSON, please refer to your Local, State, and Federal Authority updates for Official Advisories and Orders. For up to the minute advisories and official updates, it is essential that you monitor your local Emergency Government, NOAA and Local Media Broadcasts. Please do not make personal safety decisions based upon information presented here in this Unofficial Advisory.”
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