narrowing as to what the path will be. we are confident it will be hit in the big bend of florida, as you can see there. the impacts, look how large the system is on the satellite image. there are feeder bands moving right now into key west, and they are moving into naples and those feeder bands have the risk of tornadoes and flooding rains and the storm surge is not just going to hit where the hurricane hits, it s going to impact the entire west coast of florida as far south as the everglades, which are south of naples on this map. even the florida keys will see a bit of storm surge from this, so the storm surge warning, josé, extends well south of the hurricane warning. the hurricane warning ends in tampa bay. the storm surge warning continues down the coast. john, because you are really the voice on these issues, i would ask you, because we have folks that live in that area, and maybe that are mostly
westward north of downtown l.a. you re looking at the tropical rain bands. these are feeder bands well to our north. this is intersecting this mountain range. this is what s been happening all night. it s been pushing up this moisture right along the mountain sides there and extracting all of the available rain that s in the atmosphere out of it. we ve produced rainfall totals that have exceeded over half a foot of rain as we ve already mentioned. that is going to be concerning. another 2 to 4 inches possible. lower elevations, half an inch to an inch. certainly we don t want to see more rainfall on top of what s already taken place. this is southern california. that extends into nevada. that s where post tropical storm hilary. it extends far north of montana. the storm system continues to just wallop the western half of the u.s. we ll start to see a drying
replacement cycle. what that means is the heaviest con injection near the center is spreading out. once it spreads ut and it gets better organized, it collapses again and gets stronger. but not only does it get stronger, it pushes those winds outward. as you mentioned just moments ago, it is getting bigger. i mean, hurricane-force winds are about 80-milewide swath, and that will grow in size. that s going to affect more citizens and residents in florida. other problems we re having right now, these feeder bands have been moving in and producing numerous tornadoes with damage and broward county, downed trees, even north of miami we had plane damage as well. we had one north of naples, so we got a tornado watch that is in effect for a very large area. but what s significant about this, it s in effect until 5:00 a.m. in the morning. that is staggering. these tornadoes are not like the ones we see in the southern plains. they re not monsters. they re spin-ups, maybe ef1s or
expected to make a direct impact, it could get a 12 foot storm surge. the net effectiveness, it could be devastating and could cause widespread power outages. for that i m now joined by brian reuter who is with florida light and power. thank you so much, sir. i keep hearing dave, i m sorry. i keep hearing widespread power outages. what does that mean? good morning, john. yes, thank you. you know, there certainly is the potential with a storm of this magnitude for us to experience widespread power outages in this territory even as the feeder bands have impacted the territory over the last 24 hours. we ve seen that. we ve managed to restore 120,000 customers already in between the storm bands. at the present time we have 50,000 customers up. so 50,000 customers out. 120,000 who were out but are now
day. so the ground is already saturated you drop the last few days with the feeder bands leading up to this you look at some of the estimates online it s 15 inches of rain. you drop that on an already sat temperature rated ground here in southwest, florida. we recall going to have extensive flooding. i m sure we have it already day breaks and start to get rainfall. that is the biggest concern on top of the window and on top of the other it rain. people don t realize the rain we already have and dropping 15 inches on top of that pretty catastrophic when it comes to flooding. carley: that s a great point. influx of new residents tampa s mayor told the new residents to listen to the old timers. listen to the old timers, listen to the people who have been around mother nature wins every time.