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Florida Division of Emergency Management - State Watch Office
DAILY SITUATION REPORT: 0700hrs EST to 0700hrs EST
Published:
Thursday, September 02, 2010
READINESS STATUS
State Emergency Operations Center:
Watch Officer:
Duty Officer:
Eric Conklin
Patrick Fuller
Level - 3 Monitoring
[email protected]
850-528-7526
850-519-6738
[email protected]
Operations Officer:
Alacia Fowler
850-413-9900
[email protected]
Plans Officer:
Donald Kunish
850-413-9921
[email protected]
Meteorologist:
Amy Godsey
850-617-9121
Public Information Officer:
Lauren McKeague 850-528-8975
[email protected]
ESF- 8:
Jon Erwin
[email protected]
850-251-2856
[email protected]
County Location
Status
County Liaison Officer - Roy Dunn:
Leon
Office Admin
Region 1 - VACANT
VACANT
See Regional Coverage
Region 2 - Bryan Lowe:
Off - In Region
Off and Monitoring
Region 3 - Jim Britts:
VACANT
See Regional Coverage
Region 4 - Paul Siddall:
Pasco
Scope of Work
Region 5 - Jim Roberts:
Orange
ESF Meeting / Office Admin
Region 6 - Lee Mayfield:
Lee
Regional Meeting Prep
Region 7 - John Scott:
Palm Beach
Regional WebEOC / EM Mtg.
Regional Coordination Team
COMMUNICATIONS: State Watch Office
Phone:
800-320-0519 or 850-413-9900
Email:
[email protected]
Website:
http://www.floridadisaster.org
SLERS:
DEM Statewide
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/FLStateWatch
EM Constellation:
https://seoc.floridadisaster.org/emconstellation/login.aspx
SECTOR STATUS
Status
Airports Status:
All Airports open.
Border Security:
No issues reported.
Communications:
No issues reported.
Cyber Security:
No issues reported.
Energy Status:
Nuclear Power Plants Status:
R2
R3
R4
R5
R6
R7
No issues reported.
One or More Nuclear Power
Plants Are Operating At Less
Than Normal Capacity.
Public Health Advisories:
Seaports Status:
R1
No issues reported.
All Seaports are open.
Transportation Status:
No issues reported.
OPERATIONS SUMMARY:
Region 1 coverage provided by Region 2 Bryan Lowe.
Region 3 coverage is as follows: Region 2 Bryan Lowe is covering Baker, Union and Bradford; Region 4 Paul Siddall is covering Marion,
Alachua, Levy and Gilchrist; Region 5 Jim Roberts is covering Flagler, Putnam, Clay, St. Johns, Duval and Nassua.
The Florida State Emergency Operations Center has returned to a Level 3 Monitoring Status.
Crystal River NPP Unit 3 is in an extended outage.
St. Lucie NPP Unit 1 is now operating at 85%.
Florida Division of Emergency Management - State Watch Office
DAILY SITUATION REPORT: 0700hrs EST to 0700hrs EST
Published:
Thursday, September 02, 2010
METEOROLOGY:
STATUS BY REGIONS
Threat
R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
R6
Lightning:
R7
L
Flooding:
Damaging Wind:
Tornado:
Hail:
Tropics:
Heat:
L
L
L
Rip Currents:
M
L
H
Space:
L
L
L
L
L
H
L
H
Low
Lake Okeechobee Status:
14.08 feet which is at normal level for this time of year
METEOROLOGY SUMMARY:
State:
Large ocean swells and breaking waves up to 10 feet in the wake of major Hurricane Earl will bring another day with a very high risk of
dangerous rip currents for all beaches along the Florida’s Atlantic coast. The beaches across the Western Panhandle are a
moderate risk, and all beaches from the Eastern Panhandle through the Peninsula Gulf Coast have a low risk of rip currents today. The
weather pattern will remain very similar to yesterday as a high pressure system sits over the region. The subsiding nature of the high
pressure system will inhibit shower development across much of the state, and all areas have less than a 20% chance of rain today. A
few showers have developed early this morning along the Florida Straits and very scattered showers have developed offshore of the
Peninsula east coast in the broad circulation round Hurricane Earl. These showers have the potential to affect isolated areas along the
Florida Keys, as well as some areas in coastal Northeast, East Central, and Southeast Florida this morning. Southeast Florida is the
area most likely to see a stray shower or two throughout the day today, although any shower that does develop will be very small and
short-lived. Overall, most areas across the state will not see any rainfall and can expect mostly sunny skies today.
Tropics:
Major Hurricane Earl has increased to Category 4 strength with maximum sustained winds near 145mph. Earl made its closest approach
to the Florida coastline this morning and is now on its way northward, away from the area, and the center of Earl is expected to pass
dangerously close to the Outer Banks, North Carolina sometime tonight. Earl will then begin to weaken as it moves northeastward
offshore the eastern U.S. coastline. Tropical Storm Fiona currently has maximum sustained winds near 50mph. Fiona is not expected to
gain much more strength over the next few days and is not expected to reach hurricane intensity. Fiona is expected to pass just west of
Bermuda on Saturday. The vigorous tropical wave in the central tropical Atlantic became Tropical Storm Gaston yesterday afternoon
and currently has maximum sustained winds near 40mph. Gaston is expected to continue moving towards the west for the next few
days and approach the Leeward Islands sometime next week. Gaston has the potential to strengthen and may become a hurricane late
this weekend. A strong tropical wave that recently emerged off the west coast of Africa has a 10% chance of developing by Saturday
morning. However, conditions are favorable for slow development after that as the system moves westward through the tropical Atlantic.
Lake Okeechobee: average elevation is at 14.08 feet today, which is about normal for this time of year.
Space Weather: is expected to be very low today. The Space Weather Prediction Center has placed a 5% chance of weak geomagnetic activity over the next 24 hours.
Patrick G. Fuller
Digitally signed by Patrick G. Fuller
DN: cn=Patrick G. Fuller, o=Florida Division of Emergency
Management, ou=Operations,
[email protected], c=US
Date: 2010.09.02 09:33:32 -04'00'