Tropical Storm Andrea

The National Hurricane Center has highlighted an area in the Gulf of Mexico south of Tallahassee and west of Tampa Bay as having a closed center of circulation, and winds were sufficient enough to give it a name, Tropical Storm Andrea. (BTW, the naming of hurricanes is standard NHC practice to keep hurricanes in both oceans organized during the peak tropical weather/hurricane season, and naming snowstorms is just the Weather Channel promoting its own crap.)

As of 11:00EDT/10:00CDT tonight, Andrea has a pressure of 1002 MB, and sustained winds of 40mph. Andrea was moving north at 6mph. Some bands of rain from Andrea are reaching the west coast and Keys areas of Florida, including one band producing waterspouts and possible tornadoes near Marathon, Florida.

This is the current track highlighted by NHC:

That would put the storm moving very quickly, making landfall somewhere between Tallahassee and Tampa Bay, and then racing up the eastern seaboard as a post-tropical system that could dump heavy rain. Eventually, the low will move back over the ocean, but will likely not redevelop into something new.