This is audio from an Oct. 22, 2019 meeting.

This is audio of Jim Tucker from the Oct. 22, 2019 Fort Walton Beach City Council meeting.

Listen to an interview with MWS Mobile meteorologist Jason Beaman

A burgeoning tropical system is closing in on Florida’s Gulf Coast, which should begin experiencing tropical-storm-force winds and mounting storm surge Friday night.

While the system, dubbed Potential Tropical Cyclone 16, has the 40 mph winds to qualify it as a storm, it still hasn’t gained the well defined center that would earn it the name Nestor. However the National Hurricane Center in its 4 a.m. update said it is “a little better organized,′ since the last advisory on Thursday.

The restaurant reopened the next day, Oct. 12, when inspectors returned and observed no violations.

The high-priority violation stemmed from seven live roaches found in four different locations in the restaurant — the service counter, supply hallway, mop sink area and by the hot water heater. One of the basic violations was also for five dead roaches found inside the restaurant.

The intermediate violations were for an accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the ice machine in the service area and no paper towels or mechanical hand-drying device at the handwashing sink and no paper towels in the men’s bathroom. The other basic violation was for the interior of the microwave in the food preparation area being soiled with “encrusted food debris.”