the hurricane warning stop at the border of louisiana and mississippi, then down to the south. here s the latest on the storm. this is the latest image that we got in from radar out of the new orleans area. the well defined eye. we have dual eye walls. we have the inner one, and then we have this outer one. if you were watching us at the top of this hour when we checked in with morgan and his crew in houma, louisiana, he s starting to get towards that outer eye band. the winds are going to really pick up. gusts to 80. when you go through this outer band that s when the power outages become widespread. the power is going out in chauvin and soon in areas like houma. and when the inner band goes through, there could be 130-mile-an-hour wind gusts. that would be a second hit where morgan and his crew is. that will be about two or three hours from now. we will stay with him and his crew as long as we can. as long as they are safe. the extreme wind warning is
strong category 3. not much of a different between the two. the hurricane center has it a 130-mile-per-hour landfall. if you re going to have 130-mile-an-hour winds, that s tornadic-type winds. extreme wind damage. then storm will weaken as it heads north. even if baton rouge we could have significant tree damage and power outages. new orleans, you re maybe just far enough away to not have significant wind damage from this storm. the landfall is west of grand isle. it could be as far west as morgan city or as far east as grand isle. but the storm surge is pretty much set in stone. along with it, all the heavy rain with this storm. that area of pink is of greatest concern. that s where emergency management told people if you re not protected by a levee, get out. even areas outside of new orleans, if you re not protected by the federal levee system, you
including this ef-2 in blum, texas, with 130-mile-an-hour winds. they believe this was a tornado, too, right here, sparking tornadoes in van buren, arkansas. homes and buildings ripped to pieces in foreston, texas. let s get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee, timing this out again tonight for us. ginger? reporter: birmingham, alabama, in a flash flood emergency, david. and there is a tornado warning just between there and montgomery. so, alabama getting hit hard, but that watch extends all the way into the florida panhandle. that includes pensacola, back to gulfport, so, anyone there along the gulf really needs to be on alert tonight. and it s not just the tornadoes and damaging wind. it s all that rain. the flash flood threat will go through tonight. that front eventually settles and much colder air starts to dig in behind it. david? all right, bracing for more tonight. ginger zee, we ll see you in the morning on gma. in the meantime, we re going to turn to that breaking
done. we don t know the scope until we get aerial pictures of grand bahamas. outer air pacts. 35 to 40 miles per hour. that is not devastating. it will continue throughout the day. as long as we get movement to the north, we ll push water in. we could get some storm surge along florida s eastern coast. tuesday and wednesday and finally wednesday and thereafter it moves away from florida but typically cyclones that move away from florida and north could impact the carolinas with 130-mile-an-hour wind. we re here for the next two days and then getting up into georgia and the carolinas. we should have another cone.
the u.s. so, here s the forecast track and timing. it has slowed a little bit, so, that by sunday afternoon, maybe early monday, it s just off the coastline as a category 4 storm with 130-mile-an-hour winds. likely making landfall monday or tuesday. but a lot of uncertainty here. the two most reliable computer models, the european model and the american gfs are completely different. the gfs comes here and then goes north. the european goes towards miami and scoots up the coastline. so, we ll hope to get better grasp on this tomorrow, they re going to launch extra weather balloons tonight, more recon aircraft, so, the confidence in the forecast should increase tomorrow. but one thing is for sure, a high impact storm is likely to come to florida. so, residents here need to be prepared over this weekend. tom? rob marciano and his team tracking it all. rob, thank you. as we said, florida is in a state of emergency tonight, as hurricane dorian barrels towards the mainland. people are al