Tornado Updates

The Florida Peninsula is on alert for a high impact cyclone that is expected to carry the name of Milton. Computer forecast models are in increasing agreement that the system is going to strengthen in the Gulf of Mexico.

The broad tropical disturbance we have been discussing for days is consolidating quickly in the western Gulf of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center has designated it Tropical Depression Fourteen.

Tropical Depression Fourteen formed in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, eventually eyeing Florida next week as a tropical storm or even possibly as a hurricane, with days of torrential rains and triggering a risk of flooding and gusty winds.

It’s now the second weekend of recovery and resilience since Hurricane Helene tore through Florida and the Southeast, killing at least 232 people with hundreds more still unaccounted for from the deadliest mainland US hurricane since Katrina.

Some hospital associations around the country are warning that they face a disruption of intravenous and peritoneal dialysis solutions due impacts on a medical production facility in North Carolina. Baxter International, an Illinois-based healthcare company, said its facility east of Asheville in western North Carolina suffered significant impacts from Helene, with many roadways and bridges left impassable following the storm.

John Zara said he and his family are busy mucking out their Swannanoa, North Carolina, home after they were saved from the roof during Helene’s horrific flooding.

Country music icon Dolly Parton, her East Tennessee businesses and Walmart are partnering to donate millions of dollars to assist victims of Hurricane Helene floods.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is installing a one-mile-long boom in Douglas Lake to collect debris that was washed into the lake by Helene.