right now but a very impressive rain field. like you said, the real threat here, even if the winds get to 45 or 50, the real threat to puerto rico and the virgin islands will be significant rainfall. this could ramp up way over 10 inches of rain just because of the size of the storm right now. puerto rico is that island right there, so this is much larger than it even looks, and where it was yesterday, much larger than that. it is forecast to travel over the east side, but it s so wide it will be like a bowling ball over the entire island and over the bvi as well. 45, maybe 55 miles an hour as it gets over warmer water. the hurricane hunters have been out there all day today looking for it. there is nothing really out there to say this is getting bigger, this is getting stronger, estronge stronger, here is the eyewall. an interesting little spin in
into charleston on the harbor, water over the battery. getting up over 9.92 feet. that place is third behind hugo. and then, of course, matthew. the extent of the wind and rain field expressing itself outward. it is interesting to note, still a tornado watch in effect for parts of georgia and the carolinas. another record, in a 24-hour period the number of tornado warnings in florida, the record was 47. they issued 69. for the first time ever in history, a tropical storm warning. far north georgia encompassing much of eastern alabama, suburbs of atlanta all the way into south carolina. again, coming up in the next hour, we ll talk more about that, wolf. sustained winds are at 50. by stock market morning down to 40, continuing to lose its strength. thank goodness there will never be another harvey or irma. those names will be retired. good point. we ll check back in the next hour. more on the breaking news.
they saw such heavy rainfall, 26 inches in 24 hours, it is still raining there. not not those types of rainfall amounts. here s the latest regarding tropical depression harvey. so an inclination from a category 4 hurricane made rainfall around corpus christi, around houston and galveston and all those areas and transitioned that broad rain field over towards louisiana/texas border where we re seeing high level rescues in beaumont/port author. some of the refineries and oils and they ve had to pull back or stop production. you ve no doubt seen the gas prices at your local gas station rise. and now we ve got the flood threat running up and down the central and lower mississippi river valley. it looks like some of the