Storm team 8 meteorologist steve jerve. 80 Miles Per Hour winds for hermine shortly before landfall looking at it on the satellite imagery probably within the hour. Our effects will be mostly wate especially high tide flooding coming up in the Early Morning hours, but there it is, 80 mileperhour winds moving north, northeast at 14 Miles Per Hour. It will eventually move inland you can see north of valdosta, georgia,ak Tropical Storm and long term up the east coast as a tropical depression, could be a rainmaker in sections of the southeast, again 80 mileper hour winds. A Tropical Storm warning is still in place in Citrus County. Theres an intense line of thunderstorms offshore continuing to race to the east and northeast. The areas in red taking out polk cotyut include pinellas and hillsborough until 8 a. M. Tomorrow. In the rain bands you can see a tornadoes and there was damage on the beach as a result of likely Straight Line wind associated with these thunderstorms and heavy rain squ
Schools and some workplaces closed today due to the rain yesterday and the possibility of seeing more today. You can see how large the system is. From the yucatan peninsula up through jacksonville, florida getting some impact from Tropical Storm hermine at this point. The official advisories, see this red area here along the panhandle . Thats a hurricane warning meaning hurricaneforce winds within 36 hours. Closer to home, you see that we have citrus, hernando and pasco in the orange shade. Thats meaning you could feel Tropical Stormforce winds late tonight and in through the Early Morning hours of tomorrow. Heres the reason why. Notice the forecast, just came in about an hour ago. Finally the system is picking up some forward speed. It was stationary yesterday. 60Miles Per Hour sustained winds and notice by 2 00 this afternoon, stronger at 65 Miles Per Hour winds. During the afternoon and evening, this is going to race toward the panhandle of florida and may make land fall as the cate
Last. We have teamov cerag heavy storms bear down on tampa y. Laur Shayla Reaves is live at Bayonet Medical Center for an update on the evacuation. Alcides segui is live for us in largo. Ssell first well check in on dave for the latest on the Tropical Storm, what its doing, where it is and what we should be doing. Dave just hanging tight and waiting around. We have a lot of rain offshore. We had, of course, the tremendous amount weve had yesterday. Thats still sitting around in many spots but this mornin i dont think the break is going to last forever, though. As you start to see slowly, the main bands of rain inch closer and closer to the coastline and ashermine moves toward flid t,c going to sweep through the. So while were starting quiet, as the day moves along, theain will pick up. On . See that tpil storm thats where the center of the system, you would see a symmetrical setup but its not. As it moves northeast, being on the eastern side a the way up the west c tampa, youre going t
Inching ever closer to florida moving in on a section of the panhandle around big bend. Scooting back and forth with new information coming in, and it came in just a few minutes ago, we are analyzing over in the we weather center. And this shows the wind speeds up and the pressure dropping. This storm is now predicted to be a hurricane before it land fall close to or just east of af app apalachicola, we are g stay kind of on the wet and unstable side tomorrow and so be watching for additional bands of rain developing around tampa bay. The winds will pick up in speed intensifying, we will see with the long fetch that is going to pile up the water. Our coast line and Continental Shelf goes out abo about 90 mils and if you go a b west wind, you get flooding, like splashing water i the Hurricane Hunter plane was crosscrossicrisscrossing and a line there, and back to by lox i they go. We are confident on this track, this is being picked up by a a right hand turn like charlie did. I mean, th
dave problems with an aging sewer system. Has the cities of Saint Petersburg and largo especially concerned about Tropical Storm hermine. And all this rain. Is already causing problems. The city of largo says the extreme heavy rain has overloaded parts of the sanitary sewer system. Getting into the pipes. This is all happening before the storm has even made landfall. The city is asking people to conserve water. Cut back on the nonessential activities like doing laundry and washing dishes. In other parts of largo, we spotted neighborhoods underwater. Similar problems in st. Pete, where they are . Also asking residents to conserve water. Because of similar sewage problems. Heres what mayor kriseman had to say and now to pasco county where Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in hudson has been undergoing an evacuation. Due to an electrical fire. Hundreds of patients are having to be moved in the middle of this storm. And fox 13s Shayla Reaves is at the hospital right know if everyone is