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Hurricane Milton Local Statement Advisory Number 21
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL  AL142024
510 AM EDT Thu Oct 10 2024 /410 AM CDT Thu Oct 10 2024/

This product covers eastern Florida panhandle, Florida Big Bend, southeastern Alabama and southwestern Georgia

**MILTON MOVING OFF THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. GUSTY WINDS COULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON** 


NEW INFORMATION
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* CHANGES TO WATCHES AND WARNINGS:
    - All watches and warnings have been canceled

* CURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS:
    - None

* STORM INFORMATION:
    - About 330 miles east-southeast of Panama City or about 260 
      miles east-southeast of Tallahassee
    - 28.5N 80.5W
    - Storm Intensity 85 mph
    - Movement Northeast or 55 degrees at 18 mph

SITUATION OVERVIEW
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...MILTON MOVING OFF THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. GUSTY WINDS COULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON...

At 5 AM EDT, Hurricane Milton is moving off the east-central 
coast of the FL Peninsula near Cape Canaveral as a category 1 
hurricane. Milton will continue to move east through the remainder 
of the day. 

Milton remains a very large system with strong winds on the north 
side of the system. As Milton moves off the coast, all tropical 
warnings will be cancelled and replaced with a wind advisory across 
the FL Big Bend and south-central GA through this afternoon. 

Dangerous marine conditions will continue with building waves and 
strong winds persisting into Thursday afternoon or evening. This 
will result in high surf at all area beaches through Thursday along 
with deadly rip currents along all area beaches for the rest of the 
week.

POTENTIAL IMPACTS
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* WIND:
Little to no additional wind impacts expected.

Elsewhere across eastern Florida panhandle, Florida Big Bend, 
southeastern Alabama and southwestern Georgia, little to no impact is 
anticipated.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS
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* ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- For information on appropriate preparations see ready.gov
- For additional disaster preparedness information see redcross.org

NEXT UPDATE
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As it pertains to this event...this will be the last local statement 
issued by the National Weather Service in Tallahassee FL regarding 
the effects of tropical cyclone hazards upon the area.

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