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MIAMI -- Fred is still highly disorganized but may restrengthen into a tropical depression or storm today, with landfall in northwest Florida, Alabama, or Mississippi Monday. The system is about 390 miles south southeast of Pensacola.
A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for portions of the north-central Gulf Coast from the Alabama/Florida border eastward to Ochlockonee River, Florida.
Fred could bring rain to the Keys and parts of South Florida Sunday, as well as seven inches or more in parts of the Big Bend and Panhandle Sunday night into Tuesday.
Meantime, hurricane forecasters are also watching Tropical Storm Grace, which remains disorganized as it approaches Puerto Rico. Grace is moving more slowly across the eastern Caribbean at 16 miles per hour but could bring heavy rains and mudslides to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti, which suffered a magnitude seven earthquake early Saturday morning.
The long-range track shows Grace in the southern Gulf Thursday.
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR GRACE AT 8 AM ET:
WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* U.S. Virgin Islands
* Puerto Rico, including Vieques and Culebra
* Dominican Republic from the southern Haitian border to Samana
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for...
* North coast of the Dominican Republic from the Haitian border to
Samana
* Entire coast of Haiti