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    Maps show Tropical Storm Debby's path and forecast

    By Emily Mae Czachor,

    22 hours ago

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    Debby wreaks havoc in Florida, heads to Georgia and the Carolinas 03:57

    Tropical Storm Debby was moving slowly early Tuesday, bringing torrential downpours across parts of southeastern Georgia and coastal South Carolina, the National Hurricane Center said. Debby first hit land Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane over Florida's Big Bend coast.

    The storm "is expected to produce potentially historic rainfall totals of 10 to 20 inches, with maximum amounts of 30 inches, bringing areas of catastrophic flooding across portions of eastern Georgia, the coastal plain of South Carolina, and southeast North Carolina through Wednesday," the hurricane center said.

    "On the forecast track, the center will move across southeastern Georgia this morning and then off the Georgia coast later today and on Wednesday, and approach the South Carolina coast on Thursday," the Miami-based center continued. "Some slight weakening is possible today. Some re-strengthening is possible on Wednesday and Thursday when Debby is off the southeastern U.S. coast."

    Debby slammed into the Big Bend coast, where the Florida panhandle meets the peninsula, near Steinhatchee, a small oceanside town about 70 miles west of Gainesville, at around 7 a.m. EDT. The hurricane center said it was was tracking slightly inland in the Big Bend region about an hour after landfall, with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. That marked a marginal decrease in power, as meteorologists estimated that Debby struck the coast with 80 mph winds.

    By 11 p.m., sustained wind speeds had fallen to about 45 mph, with higher gusts, as the tropical storm churned along its anticipated northeastern route.

    As of 2 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Debby's center was some 25 miles west of Brunswick, Georgia and was moving northeast at 7 mph and still had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, the hurricane center said, adding that some "slight weakening is possible today.  Some re-strengthening is possible on Wednesday and Thursday when Debby is off the southeastern U.S. coast.

    "Tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 200 miles east of the center."

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    Storm surge forecast

    The map below, updated late Monday night, shows the highest potential peak storm surge heights including tides. Forecasters noted that the timing of peak surge and high tide in a given area, and whether they coincide or not, will ultimately determine how destructive the inundation will be.

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    Heavy rainfall totals dominate the forecast

    Debby was moving slowing early Tuesday, and the hurricane center said anticipated rainfall totals along its path are massive in part because the storm is lingering over each place it passes.

    As Debby shifts farther east, the storm was expected to touch an expansive spread along the southeastern U.S. through the Carolinas before dissipating.

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