Invest 93-L Located Over Eastern Florida Near Daytona Beach: It appears that we have a tropical storm forming over eastern Florida this afternoon as weather observations, satellite imagery and radar loops indicate that a low pressure system (Invest 93-L) is increasing in organization and is now well defined. There is the potential that Invest 93-L could be upgraded to Tropical Storm Julia as soon as 5 pm EDT/4 pm CDT today given the overall look of this system and the fact that it is now producing tropical storm force winds along the northeast Florida coast.

It is expected that Invest 93-L/Julia will push north-northwestward right along the coast of northeast Florida this afternoon into tonight and could be positioned over southeastern Georgia or northeast Florida during Wednesday.

For those of you across the Florida Peninsula and southern Georgia – isolated supercell thunderstorms embedded within the heavy rain bands could produce brief short lived tornadoes and some wind damage reports this afternoon into tonight across central, eastern and north Florida and southern Georgia.

In addition to this, heavy rainfall with total amounts of 3 to 5 inches are expected across central and north Florida and southeastern and eastern Georgia the rest of today through Wednesday. The highest rainfall amounts could occur in an area along the eastern and northeastern Florida and southeastern Georgia coast from Cape Canaveral through St. Augustine and Jacksonville to Brunswick.

If Invest 93-L is upgraded to a tropical storm later this afternoon, I will post another update sometime this evening with information on this.

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