(August 20, 2008)—Tropical Storm Fay has struck the Florida Keys and the Florida mainland and residents were waiting and watching Wednesday to see what the storm does next.
In a briefing Wednesday morning at the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, Gov. Charlie Crist said Fay was virtually stationary, but is expected to move into the Atlantic later in the day.
Late Wednesday morning, Fay’s center was about 125 miles north of Cape Canaveral and the storm was moving toward the north at about 3 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of near 50 miles per hour.
No significant change in strength was expected over the next 24 hours as Fay begins a gradual turn toward the northwest.
The main threat at this point is rain.
Fay is expected to produce rainfall accumulations of as much as 12 inches over east-central and northeastern Florida and as much as six inches over southeastern Georgia.
Isolated tornadoes are also a possibility over portions of northeastern Florida.
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