WATCHES/WARNING???

[bucman1]

When will watches and warnings go up in the Florida penninsilar?

[caneseddy]

probably tomorrow at 5am or 11am

[bucman1]

Where do you exspect them to be?

[Derek Ortt]

Looking like Saturday at 11 p.m. or even as late as Snday morning.

if the models are correct, Monday night or Tuesday morning

[arkess7]

Where do you exspect them to be?

I would think the whole west coast of Florida.

[floridahurricaneguy]

Agree most of west coast including Tampa will get Hurricane watch. Then I think closer it will be just north of tampa and southward to somewhere will get TS warning and rest Hurricane.

Matt

[jpigott]

i think its too early to say for sure that hurricane watches and warnings will be posted at all for FL, b/c if Wilma spends a significant time over the Yucatan her core could be ripped to shreds and all that may be left is a TS

[Brent]

Based on the current projected track, probably late tomorrow for the watch. I would say if the track stays the same we'll see a hurricane watch from around Tampa Bay all the way down through the Keys, and for the east coast... probably from around Daytona Beach southward through Miami...

[Canelaw99]

Max Mayfield, at his 11:30 press conference, just said that on the current track, watches, etc. probably would go up for the Keys Sat. night. The current TS windfield goes out about 200 miles so they'll be the first to feel the TS winds and will need to be under a watch early because of that.

Trust the NHC. They've got a good handle on when to put up watches/warnings to give people enough time to do what they need to do. Additionally, all of us in FL have had a couple of extra days so by the time the watches/warnings are up, there shouldn't be much left preparation-wise.