cat 4 status before it makes landfall. jane: you can see the deeper convection bubbling up on the southwestern side of the eye. you know, as that continues to wrap around, we consider the dirty side of the storm up across the northeast. that s going to help bring in the tightening of that eye circulation, the intensification happening especially as that pinhole potentially gets a little bit smaller but you can see already the outer rain bands making their way on shore. the 60 mile-per-hour gusts as you mentioned there in sarasota. this is a classic textbook form of what you would consider a major hurricane. you know, you get those outer rain bands that continue to shift in, and it s within those individual bands and now you have smaller, you know, more isolated threats of wind gusts, tropical storm force winds, but also, too, the tornado threat. we don t want to forget there s a tornado watch in place for the western coast of florida up around the big bend as the bands shift their wa