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| Tropical Storm Debby heads for Flor |
| Tropical Storm Debby heads for Florida coast
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-June-2012
2:39:35 AM |
| ropical Storm Debby meandered slowly to the Florida coast on Sunday, bringing strong winds and waves that forced the closure of about a quarter of offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico and spawning tornadoes that killed one person.
Debby, the first named storm of 2012 to enter the Gulf of Mexico, was centered about 115 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola, Florida and was nearly stationary, the National Hurricane Center said in its 7 p.m. CDT (0000 GMT) update.
Debby, no longer expected to gain hurricane strength, packed winds of 60 mph, the Miami-based center said.
Citing a “significant change in the forecast track,” the NHC said Debby is expected to hit the Florida Panhandle near Panama City on Thursday as a tropical storm. “This forecast remains uncertain due to weak steering currents,” the NHC said.
The NHC had previously predicted that the storm would track westward toward the Louisiana coast as a weak hurricane, spurring Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to declare a state of emergency.
Debby has already disrupted nearly a quarter of Gulf offshore oil and natural gas production as big offshore operators like BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell evacuated workers from offshore platforms in the path of the storm.
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