clearwater, florida not too far from tampa, florida where you might just call this the calm before the storm. dorian is a category 4 hurricane right now with winds in excess of 130 miles per hour. this could very well be by the time it hits florida, we re told that could be late sunday night into monday morning. if it follows its current trajectory, with winds excess of 157 miles an hour. already this has turned slightly eastward and shifting more to the carolinas. they re not taking chances in florida, closing down the orlando international airport as of 2 a.m. monday and already seen one county, brevard county recommending an evacuation. that s the 10th largest county. and now to an update. this is ken graham, the official clock on the wall 11 a.m. eastern time. let s get the latest information on hurricane dorian. look how healthy on satellite. you still see that eye of the hurricane right there in the middle and we re noticing a lot
so far, as you know, with the exception of brevard county, kind of in the middle of the florida east coast. there have been no mandatory evacuations delivered from florida. officials now, even there, it s for low lying beaches, cape canaveral, some of the others. by and large they avoid that i m told because they don t know exactly where to tell people to go. it s possible the storm of this size could hang for a while. if they went further inland it doesn t mean they re getting away in florida, they don t know where to go. how would you advise people who are being told to go, where do they go? we start losing time as thee speed up. we were given more time with this hurricane so during the briefings and talking to everybody from here at the hurricane center, we re talking about the timeline. think about this. that s 8 a.m. tuesday. this is 8 a.m. wednesday.
of convex around the center. the other thing we look at, the health of the storm and outflow. you see the high clouds moving out from the center, just a textbook situation of a very strong hurricane here. that s why in the latest update, this is brand new, we re now up to 150 miles an hour on the wind and slowing down, too, moving west at 8 miles per hour. we re getting information from the noaa hunters and the hurricane hunters, flying right into the eyewall. with the hurricane hunters and p-3, we have a radar on board giving us information about the structure of the storm and helps us determine, looking at the winds with the instrumentation and the storms and helps us with the intensity forecast. you can see in the eye here and we also look for different patterns around the outside to look for eyewall replacements as well. a lot of information coming in here and as a result, higher winds and we ve updated the forecast as well.
going to feel the disturbance and it s going to take it to the north. it s too close and too early to tell which side of the track it s going to be. neil: but landfall anywhere would be a monday event? how would you describe it? devastating with a major hurricane. for the bahamas we re talking conditions going downhill even tomorrow. very devastating in the bahamas. i can t emphasize that enough. 24 hours of rain and battering storm surge, even staying off shore, this is tuesday, not even making landfall in florida, but could get the impacts. depending on the fracture. south and north carolina, again, it depends on that track. neil: ken, thank you, i know you ve had little sleep. and the national hurricane
be careful. neil: they don t know where to go. following the katrina model where the hurricane hopped the state and get into the gulf, going in land is pointless advice so a lot of them, maybe i will stay until i know for sure whether where this thing is headed. you can t wait too long. if you wait to the last minute and everyone is trying to evacuate it will be difficult to get out so that is when places run out of gas so you cannot wait. right now you know you can go west. if you look at if you go west you are in better shape. i follow every day, listen to local law enforcement, they will give you what they think with every community will be different. do you get a sense floridians are so used to storms and