Hurricane warning issued for Florida's east coast

Friday, September 24, 2004

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MIAMI (AP) A hurricane warning was issued this afternoon along Florida's east coast from Florida City in Miami-Dade County to St. Augustine, and including Lake Okeechobee, as Hurricane Jeanne continued moving toward Florida and the northern Bahamas.

The warning means that hurricane winds are expected in those areas within 24 hours.

Jeanne is now centered 225 miles east of Great Abaco Island and about 400 miles from Florida's southeastern coast. Movement remains to the west at about 12 miles an hour, with top sustained winds still at about 100 miles an hour. Forecasters say there could be some slow strengthening.

The big question remains just when Jeanne is going to begin its expected turn to the northwest and then north. The center of the official forecast map shows landfall south of Cape Canaveral early Sunday morning, though the wider forecast cone covers an area from South Carolina southward to about the Miami area.

With tropical storm-force winds out from center up to 150 miles, Jeanne will cover a much larger area than just the landfall target. Forecast models vary, with some showing the northward turn before actual landfall. But others show a track across the Florida peninsula before the turn occurs.

With that in mind, the official track shows a turn to the north as Jeanne's center makes landfall, then going up Florida's east coast to the Jacksonville area by Monday morning.

Jeanne centered at latitude 26.4 north, longitude 73.5 west.

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