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National Situation Update: Sunday, June 11, 2006

Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED).

Tropical Depression One

At 5 am EDT the center of Tropical Depression One was located near latitude 23.5 north longitude 87.0 west or about 335 miles west-southwest of Key West Florida and about 445 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola, Florida.

The depression is moving toward the northwest near 9 mph and a motion to the northwest or north-northwest is expected during the next 24 hours.

Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph with higher gusts in squalls mainly to the northeast of the center.  The depression could become a tropical storm later today. Estimated minimum central pressure is 1003 mb/29.62 inches.

The depression is expected to produce total rainfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches over the Florida Keys and western portions of the Florida peninsula through Monday.

Preparations and Preparedness:

• Thomasville is at level 3.
• Georgia Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is at a normal level, with no FEMA Liaison Officer (LNO) on site, but one in the wings if the EOC activates, and no requests for Federal assistance
• Florida EOC is at a level 2, partial activation.  FEMA LNO is on site.  There have been no requests for Federal assistance.  No evacuations are planned at this time.  Decisions regarding future plans will be made after the 11 am forecast today.
• Alabama EOC is not activated.  There is no FEMA LNO, though one is on standby, and no request for Federal assistance
• Mississippi EOC is not activated.  There is no FEMA LNO, though one is on standby, and no request for Federal assistance
• In Louisiana, the Deputy Director, Gulf Coast Recovery, has been in direct contact with Governor Blanco and participated in a conference call with her to discuss whether they should continue to monitor or declare a state of emergency.  No decision yet.  The Deputy Director is also contacting  Mayor Nagin and the Parish Presidents to keep them in the loop. 
• A mission assignment has been issued to ESF-1 to pre-position 50 busses at the Carville Staging Area in Louisiana for four days, complete with drivers and logisticians.  This MA is a flexible response measure so the busses can be redirected to other states if not needed in LA. 

Logistics:

• Louisiana
  • Deployed  25 truckloads of Emergency Meals (Feeds 125,000 persons 2meals /day) to Camp Beauregard
  • Deployed 6 Heavy Generator with accessories to Camp Beauregard as requested by TRO

• Alabama
  • Advanced delivery time table, based upon availability of resources and transportation assets at LC-Ft. Worth
  • 97 truckloads In-transit
  • 60 truckloads remaining to be delivered
• Mississippi
  • Advanced delivery time table, based upon availability of resources and transportation assets from LC-Ft. Worth
  • 40 truckloads In-transit
  • 30 truckloads remaining to be delivered (National Hurricane Center. FEMA Regions 4 and 6) 

Significant National Weather

West: Isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop over the Pacific Northwest.

Midwest: Behind the cold front along the Kansas-Oklahoma border, northern Arkansas and Tennessee most of the Plains and Midwest will come under "cooler" Canadian high pressure. The northern portion of this air mass is so chilly that 30s are likely from northern Minnesota to northern Michigan overnight and a frost advisory or freeze watch is in effect for parts of the Upper Midwest for this morning. Thunderstorms, some strong-to-severe, are forecast from eastern Kansas and Missouri to Kentucky and across the high Plains from the Black Hills of South Dakota to western Kansas.

South: The frontal system across the nation's midsection will drop southward through the Tennessee Valley and Carolinas producing scattered strong-to-severe thunderstorms. Isolated thunderstorms are possible over south Florida and the moist tropical air on the east side of the storm will present the potential for heavy rainfall by late today. The heat will remain over the southern Plains this week with temperatures 5 to 17 degrees above average.

Northeast: The wet low-pressure area off the Canadian Maritimes will produce showers over northern New England. (National Weather Service, Media sources)

Tropical Activity

Atlantic: No tropical storm activity.

Caribbean Sea: The only significant activity is Tropical Depression One as discussed above.

Pacific: No tropical storm activity. (USDOC/NOAA/NWS, National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center, and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

Earthquake Activity

•  A light earthquake occurred at 4:25 am (EDT) today. The magnitude 4.5 event was located 134 miles North of Fairbanks Alaska at a depth of 9.3 miles.(Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program)

Preliminary Damage Assessments

No new activity (FEMA HQ)

Disaster Declaration Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)