making a land fall close to wilmington. that s the eye wall itself. so somewhere about 170 miles from you, john. 155 from wilmington being right there at oak island. when i heard you were at oak island, i thought you were looking for the gold up in new brunswi brunswick. i didn t know you would be in the thick of it. charl ton to 20. there is the center of the eye. now i put it into motion for you. now this is 11:00 tonight. there is our john berman right there. winds are going to be offshore for you, john. that s not a surge wind. the surge at this time will be over here because that s the wind going on shore, pushing that water on shore in what i m calling a catcher s mitt. the problem for you, john, as i move you ahead to 9:00 and all the way to 5:00 tomorrow
i do. i think if anybody loses passion in their life, if there s not something that they feel a purpose for, i think it really takes away a life drive. i think if you don t have a reason to get up tomorrow, if you don t have something that you think is a meaningful contribution to this life, i think your whole purpose, your momentum, your whole drive goes away. and, i you know, i m starting to make changes in my life now that anticipate what i know is coming. what is coming? ( laughs ) well, i wasn t exactly eye candy when i started television. ( laughs ) so, as each day goes by, i m looking more and more like an old catcher s mitt. so i m starting to do things behind the camera.
i do. i think if anybody loses passion in their life, if there s not something that they feel a purpose for, i think it really takes away a life drive. i think if you don t have a reason to get up tomorrow, if you don t have something that you think is a meaningful contribution to this life, i think your whole purpose, your momentum, your whole drive goes away. and, i you know, i m starting to make changes in my life now that anticipate what i know is coming. what is coming? ( laughs ) well, i wasn t exactly eye candy when i started television. ( laughs ) so, as each day goes by, i m looking more and more like an old catcher s mitt. so i m starting to do things behind the camera.
potential eye wall landfall. but the storm surge spread all the way to almost pensacola through glve shores and glve port. this is an area that really is susceptible to surge because it act like a catcher s mitt. all of the water comes up and has to stop. not like a glancing bowl from irma or maria. 85 miles per hour when it made landfall but still the potential for today for tornadoes. certainly tornadoes. and coming on shore water spouts even maybe a bigger story for all of those populated areas along the beach. here comes the rain. this is just today and where the rainfall goes today and a fast moving storm and 25-mile-per-hour forward speed storm or call it 23. the rainfall is going to spread out and rain quickly.
across the area, even though you re 100 or so miles away from the landfall. seven to 11 feet here from biloxi, back to new orleans. that s the surge. now, i know katrina had a 20-foot surge, so this isn t katrina, but 11 feet, that is a big surge for a coastal community. this is like a catcher s mitt. all this water is going to pile up and run up the rivers and that s where the surge is going to be the worst. here s where the radar looks like right now. we re going to move you ahead now. kind of advance the radar all the way through tonight and even up to mobile. very heavy rainfall. flash flooding when it comes to fresh water rainfall flooding likely in alabama, georgia, kentucky, tennessee, all the way up to west virginia. now we get to the wind speeds. biloxi, gulf shores, only in the 50s by 7:00. look at this, 11:00 tonight, biloxi you may have a wind gust of 123. it s a forecast wind gust. computer model, i get it, but that s what the computer model is thinking right now. let me t