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Conditions deteriorating rapidly here in the last 20 minutes. Very dark, rumbles of thunder, heavy rain and lots of wind. Tornado warning about 20 miles due south of where I am. Rougher looking band heading ashore in Pinellas. Anyone out there have a current report? News said 60mph wind gust out there!
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EaglezFan42
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Conditions deteriorating rapidly here in the last 20 minutes. Very dark, rumbles of thunder, heavy rain and lots of wind. Tornado warning about 20 miles due south of where I am. Rougher looking band heading ashore in Pinellas. Anyone out there have a current report? News said 60mph wind gust out there!
Lamar... it's been quiet here in St. Pete (Bay Pines/Madeira Beach area) for the past hour or so... but starting to hear the thunder and see dark clouds moving in off the Gulf with this next band.
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NPR16
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Pouring like crazy!!!! here!!!! I would say we have had gusts to TS strength and many Doppler indicated spin up Tornadoes. No verification of touchdowns as of yet.
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Location 51 miles S.E. of Tallahassee, 7 miles N.E. of Keaton Beach as the crow flies.
We've had about 3 inches of rain in our area in the past 24 hours. It's letting up now and the winds are picking up.
Steady winds at 15 to 18 mph, getting gusty though. Wonder if that's all the rain we'll see here from Debby?
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It's been pouring off and on all day here in Pinellas county. Seven inches in my gauge till this point.
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Lamar-Plant City
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Location 51 miles S.E. of Tallahassee, 7 miles N.E. of Keaton Beach as the crow flies.
We've had about 3 inches of rain in our area in the past 24 hours. It's letting up now and the winds are picking up.
Steady winds at 15 to 18 mph, getting gusty though. Wonder if that's all the rain we'll see here from Debby?
I really doubt it at this point. She seems to want to get 'up close and personal' with the Big Bend/Panhandle area.
Love the picture of Ballast Point. Looks like tide there is 3 or 4 feet above normal at least. We are up to almost an inch and a half in the rain gauge (that's 0.9 since my last post) but still haven't had and REALLY heavy weather. Had to clear my gutters with a metal pipe. Hearing thunder. The storms to my west seem to be pulsing a bit. They were really strong about 2 hours ago, but wound down a bit. Now on the upswing again....just in time to arrive here.
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Littlebit
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Sunshine Skyway Bridge has been closed due to high winds. It takes 40mph sustained winds to force it to be shut down. Wind here in Plant City is beginning to pick up a little. Just got a gust of 21.5mph. Not bad, but highest one yet.
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MichaelA
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Just back from Floral City. What a drive down I-75! About 40 minutes at 30-40 MPH in torrential rain from SR50 to the I-75/I-275 apex. Home to a flooded back yard and an overflowing rain gauge which means that over 6" of rain since this morning here in central Pinellas County. Glad to be home safe and glad I got to spend some time with my mom.
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EaglezFan42
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Here are some photos coming in from friends across St. Pete...
Gulfport: (Bay is to the left in the image) 
Pinellas Park:
Here in St. Pete, it's been off and on for the past few hours.
Strong bands coming onshore every 30-45 minutes.
St. Pete streets flood in a normal summer afternoon thunderstorm, so many roads are impassable already.
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MichaelA
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Where is that in Pinellas Park? I'm in SE Pinellas Park (near Park Place Mall) and there is no flooding here.
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EaglezFan42
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Where is that in Pinellas Park? I'm in SE Pinellas Park (near Park Place Mall) and there is no flooding here.
Belcher and 142nd Ave... I guess that's more Largo area... I'm not too familiar with that area.
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MichaelA
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Yeah, that would be Southeast Largo just north of Pinellas Park's city limits. It is a low area that doesn't drain well.
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Cindi
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Windy, rainy, and nasty outside right now. Small branches down and sproadic power outages in the area.
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Littlebit
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Lamar, check channel 10 news. Tornado warning and rotation heading towards Thonotosassa, pretty close to us. Eastern Hillsborough county needs to pay attention, they said.
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Just had a few palm fronds fly off and hit the pool screen. I live in South Lakeland. Wind is not too bad, but rain is getting heavier. Hope our big oak in the front makes it through the night. There is some really ugly stuff coming our way. We just got a wind gust of 35mph.
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This is really going into the record books especially with respect to rainfall here in bay area. And just in past hour a Tornado came ashore near Tierra Verde and St.Pete beach areas. It was caught on camera and looked fairly large and quite a bit of damage in the the area. It came right over my house but thankfully it just lifted before reaching us but measured winds 51mph and tree limbs are down in my yard.
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Lamar-Plant City
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Lamar, check channel 10 news. Tornado warning and rotation heading towards Thonotosassa, pretty close to us. Eastern Hillsborough county needs to pay attention, they said.
Been watching most of the afternoon. We have been fortunate here. Nothing too bad, but I dumped 2.1in out of the gauge an hour ago (since 9am) and we have a heavy line over us right now. No thunder with it but sound like lots of wind (I need a wind gauge!!).....and now the rain has slacked off so the line is past (see my signature at the bottom). Could be an interesting drive to Zephyrhills in the am.
Michael, glad you had safe travels to mom's and back! Been a lot of bad weather along that route today! Seems the big question now is how quickly Debby is going to fling herself upon the shores of our state. says Thursday, but I don't there is any way it takes that long. BayNews9 Viper says late tomorrow...probably somewhere in between. Stay dry, all!!
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gsand
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Palm Bay here...light rain, 1.2' since 9 am. Light winds now, but a few gusts up around 15-20 or so, baro 29.84.
Melbourne radar is showing a line approaching the Brevard-Osceola border, can hear thunder in the distance. Tornado watch and Sig Weather Warning.
Stay safe and dry everyone!
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JoshuaK
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Lakeland area here; last night in South Lakeland at work it wasn't too bad, steady rain at 11PM, then no rain from 12AM to 4AM, then steady rain from then on till now. Commute to and from work showed light street flooding on Hwy 98, with several retention ponds about to burst their banks. A fair amount of 3-6" branch and twig debris on the north side of town, also noted someone who had erected several tent covers in their backyard only to have them scattered all over the place this morning.
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