Tampa At Huge Risk From Tropical Storm

Facebook Tweet LinkedIn

Tampa will be hit by a tropical storm that could become a hurricane. It will be battered with winds as high as 74 miles per hour and a storm surge that may be several feet high. St. Petersburg, in the same metro, is barely above sea level. One of the effects of these storms in cities like Tampa is that they could ruin home prices.

According to Fox 13, “Additionally, a Storm Surge Watch has been issued for the west coast of the Florida peninsula from the Aucilla River northward to the mouth of the Suwannee River. This includes Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor.”

The storm could also slow down as it moves toward the coast, and warm water could make it much more powerful.

There have not been many storms of any strength that have hit the US so far this hurricane season. It is supposed to be among the worst in several years, both in terms of the number of storms and their ferocity. The only real threat was from Beryl, which became a Category 5 hurricane and eventually hit Houston as a Category 1. Even with lower winds, it caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage and knocked out electricity to over one million homes. Miami could not have survived Beryl.

Tampa has at least one very rough day and perhaps longer.