I've been saying Mobile Bay to Pensacola Bay for days... though agree with many in "spirit" the "tropical storm weather" associated with Debby made landfall in Tampa, Port St. Joe, etc.......and points up and down the Florida coast. A strong squall line/band is moving across Florida with severe weather towards the East coast of Florida.

But, we go with the exact center when we talk "landfall" however...........the problem with messy, poorly formed tropical storms is they don't have the worst weather in an "eye wall" around the center of circulation.

This happens all the time. Sometimes it slides into swampy, low areas and other times it hits densely populated areas....

I wish there was a way to handle tropical storms like this that was different from the way we track and cover hurricanes or well formed tropical storms.

Deaths have been reported across a wide area. Will the name be retired now?

Dry air wrapping around Debby have created one heck of a dry line racing through Florida ...now on it's way to Fort Pierce....

And, suddenly she appears "gone" like "poof" in the night.. but she is still there ....even though she is hard to find.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/gmex/flash-avn.html

Glad I'm not writing the discussion tonight, can't wait to read it... need good discussion out of the NHC.

A storm that will need to be reviewed in retrospect to learn from the mistakes made...

Tornado Warnings abound currently......