End of Debby and Flooding Threats on East Coast

The National Hurricane Center announced the conclusion of tracking Hurricane Debby, which formed a week prior and became the fourth named tropical storm of the season. Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in the Florida Panhandle on Monday, resulting in four fatalities in Florida and an additional four as it progressed up the East Coast through the Carolinas. As Debby moved northeast, it brought torrential rain that led to small stream and river flooding in the Appalachian region of the Northeast, with flash flooding warnings issued from Interstate 95 to coastal communities extending into Canada. By late Thursday, Debby was downgraded to a tropical depression and transitioned into a post-tropical cyclone by Friday, with heavy rainfall still affecting parts of New England and southern Quebec. At the time of its last report, Debby was located approximately 140 miles east-northeast of Montreal, Quebec, with sustained winds of 35 mph and moving at a speed of 39 mph. In Charlotte, North Carolina, residents braced for flash flooding, while Duke Energy reported over 24,000 power outages in Mecklenburg County as of Thursday morning. As of Saturday morning, Poweroutages.us indicated that 42,186 customers in New York and 23,752 in Vermont were without power due to the storm's impact. Debby made its initial landfall in Florida's Big Bend area before weakening as it traveled across Georgia and South Carolina, marking the only other Atlantic hurricane this year aside from Beryl, which affected the Caribbean and Gulf Coast in late June and early July.