{"id":346379,"date":"2026-07-20T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346379\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:36:09","slug":"florida-officials-monitoring-tropical-disturbance-expect-no-major-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346379\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida officials monitoring tropical disturbance, expect no major emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/05\/25\/inside-floridas-new-emergency-operations-center-rated-cat-5-hurricane\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/2026\/05\/25\/inside-floridas-new-emergency-operations-center-rated-cat-5-hurricane\/\">new emergency operations center <\/a>is up and running and leaders say the state is monitoring Tropical Depression Two, but they\u2019re not sounding any alarms just yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Five trucks are staged in Central Florida just in case of an emergency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During this storm, the state government is taking a back seat, but preparing to swoop in should the situation call for it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida\u2019s emergency management director Kevin Guthrie says they\u2019re expecting the only impact to be heavy rainfall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBut right now we\u2019re just looking at rain impacts, two, four, six inches of rain, maybe some isolated areas that get a little bit more than that depending on where bands set up. But that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking at right now. We\u2019re certainly not looking at anything that\u2019s going to activate the EOC to any certain major level,\u201d said Guthrie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They\u2019re asking people to do three things: receive emergency alerts, listen to local emergency management and then do what they say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s always a good time, again, to make sure you have your kit, you have your plan, your vehicle is at least halfway full with gas,\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cSo, if you are taking an action plan, you can do it and then evacuate tens of miles, not hundreds of miles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Guthrie says he expects most impacts to be focused on the panhandle, and specifically along and near the Gulf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If conditions do warrant, Guthrie said they\u2019ll move those trucks that are staged in Central Florida to Tallahassee with the ability to deploy the rest, but they hope that won\u2019t be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida\u2019s new emergency operations center is up and running and leaders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141841,28,129934,120487,30,29,82064,532,141840,141408],"class_list":["post-346379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-emergency-management-director","tag-florida","tag-florida-emergency-management","tag-florida-emergency-operations-center","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-storms","tag-florida-weather","tag-tropical-depression-two","tag-tropical-storm-bertha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}