to the shore and full impact has not happened yet. fok weather alert system, that 5:00 a.m. update comes in, you will have the latest information. cody in weather command was letting me know that was the velocity scan looking for rotation within super cell thunderstorms, for a tornado threat cody said that was up to 8000 feet, further you get, the beam gains elevation, that is 8000 feet, 141 mile per hour. and where deep convection is happening inside the intensification of the storm. betting person would say category 4 is awfully close and could be happening in the next
what we consider the dirty side of the storm, the northeast of the center of circulation where that eye sits. these wind gusts continues to climb. don t pay too much mind to the drop in the data there. that s just bad data that s come in in the last couple of minutes. you can see consistently up to hurricane force strength. potentially, we ll see that as this storm comes closer. ian: jane this particularly buoy is referenced in the latest discussion from the national hurricane center, the advisory that they put out. cody, what d you say? about 30 miles or so from the inner core? this isn t even sampling the worst, of course, as we re waiting on the hurricane hunters to do that, but you do see, jane, some gusts approaching 70 miles per hour as measured by the buoy and that s not even close to the worst that idalia has to offer. jane: still to come. we re going to continue to track hurricane idalia expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall in florida. we are awaitin
of water with that. so here you go. we ve got that big update in from the national hurricane center at 2:00 am. we went from a category two storm up to a category three. the wind speed jumped about 10 mile-per-hour in intensity, now up to 120 and we had a feeling that this was coming because of the data that we were receiving from the hurricane hunters, the air force reserve out of biloxi, flying into this system and what they found was a much stronger idalia. it made that full inner core earlier this afternoon. this is new video from from treasure island. it s at pinellas county in florida and you can see, yes, some of the water rising at safety beach, the last time we checked, cody was 2.2. ian: 2.2 feet of water, so clearly that is enough in an area that is brutally susceptible to storm surge to start causing at least some nuisance problems. we may see this get worse on