Storm team 8 meteorologist steve jerve. 80 Miles Per Hour winds for hermine shortly before landfall looking at it on the satellite imagery probably within the hour. Our effects will be mostly wate especially high tide flooding coming up in the Early Morning hours, but there it is, 80 mileperhour winds moving north, northeast at 14 Miles Per Hour. It will eventually move inland you can see north of valdosta, georgia,ak Tropical Storm and long term up the east coast as a tropical depression, could be a rainmaker in sections of the southeast, again 80 mileper hour winds. A Tropical Storm warning is still in place in Citrus County. Theres an intense line of thunderstorms offshore continuing to race to the east and northeast. The areas in red taking out polk cotyut include pinellas and hillsborough until 8 a. M. Tomorrow. In the rain bands you can see a tornadoes and there was damage on the beach as a result of likely Straight Line wind associated with these thunderstorms and heavy rain squ
Completely. Flooding at ashley drive, dale mabry at san miguel. I downgraded this one, manhattan at delprado because a crew said they were able to get through. Use caution there. Also caution here, gandy at west shore. Previous flooding reported here, previous flooding reported as well, manhattan to gandy boulevard. Railroad crossing is blocked state road 60 road. It is blocking traffic. Avoid in and out of pinellas. This is just area where were seeing bad flooding, shore acres completely impassible. Workers and residents only allowed and well update you on a few other spots. Dave i can tell you, more heavy rain moving through the metro area for the height of the let me start up in pasco county. We have that Flood Warning out for 7 15 and a lot of times when you get a Flood Warning, theyll say for this area, for that area. Its for the whole county. Weve had six inches of rain so obviously flooding is an issue as more rain comes along this morning to the east of 75. A nice break from sp
Panhandle, big bend region of florida, expected to make land fall later tonight as a category one hurricane. You can see hurricane warnings posted for areas north of the tampa bay area. And then as we head into friday, it will continue to move away from us and then up the east coast as we head throughout Labor Day Weekend. So at this point, its looking like this could be the first hurricane to hit florida in over 10 years. Hurricane hunters were out investigating this storm the today. And thats why they were able to upgrade it hurricane. They found wind gusts up to 86 Miles Per Hour. So it has strengthened in the gulf over the course of the last 24 hours. And now its moving more quickly as it heads towards the panhandle of florida. The other big story is, with this tropical system, we have to be mindful that we could see quick spinups or isolated tornadoes. We have parts of the tampa bay area under a tornado watch. Polk county, Citrus County, hillsborough county, up through county, tha
Making landfall somewhere around midnight in the panhandle and shoot off to the northeast. Were on a Tropical Storm warning coastal areas through Sarasota County. There youll see the Tropical Storm warnings in place. Now, heres where were talking about. The Tornado Warning in effect for southwestern Hernando County and also central pasco county. Its in effect until 6 00. So the next half hour. Theres the line were talking about. Just a few light strikes in there. But its a lot of wind sheer within here. Itself. Thats dangerous part of the storm. Over to vipir, you can see the path and where that effected area is. This may not be the last Tornado Warning. We had two others earlier today. That was another line that came through with this. G ar velocity relative to the radar site. You can see the sheer, little less than 60 mileperhour its moving rapidly north at 45 Miles Per Hour. Well zoom in and see some cities on that if we could to see whats in the path of this storm. Right along 41 t
Before flames erupted. The mosque caught fire minutes after the anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. The gunman behind the pulse nightclub shooting went to the mosque at least two times prior. One neighbor says shes seen a rise in hatred against that mosque since june. They are driving by honking, cussing, its ridiculous. Its ignorance, what it is. Investigators are now looking into the possibility that the fire was a hate crime. The st. Lucie county sheriffs offi investigate. Were making calls to find out what started a fire at bellas restaurant on south howard avenue. Firefighters were called to the scene around midnight. So far the information is limited but the restaurant doesnt have any obvious signs of damage. As soon as we learn more well pass it along on air and on line at abcactionnews. Com. Today detectives are expected to release surveillance pictures of the suspect who fired a shotgun at a couple during a road rage incident in pasco county. Jake everett and his girlfriend were