Areas of coastal Florida from Escambia to Franklin counties have been placed under a tropical storm warning by the National Weather Service. Meteorologists anticipate with "high confidence" a storm presently churning about 620 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River will become a tropical system within the next 12-18 hours, said Jason Beaman with the Weather Service in Mobile, Alabama. The storm, which will be dubbed "Nestor" if it reaches tropical storm strength, is expected to bring no more than 2 or 3 inches of rain to coastal areas in Florida as it moves west, said Mark Wool, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee...
