No tornadoes and maybe a tropical storm

A tropical storm may form over Florida in the next several days.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical storm could form around Florida over the next day or two, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Wednesday in an Atlantic tropical weather outlook at 5:30 a.m. EDT. The NHC said showers and thunderstorms were currently located over the Bahamas, central and eastern Cuba and southeastern Florida. Over the next couple of days, the system could drift slowly westward over the Florida Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico where several of the key U.S. oil and natural gas fields and refineries are located.

Tropical storm could form around Florida: NHC

In other weather news. No tornadoes confirmed in the first 6 months of 2006 in the northern part of tornado alley.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Hastings are feeling lucky this year. The 30-county area they serve in central Nebraska and north-central Kansas hasn’t had a confirmed tornado for the first six months of this year. That hasn’t happened since 1950. local6.com - Weather - No Tornadoes Confirmed In Nebraska-Kansas Area This Year

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