where phil keaton is. phil keaton needs to go inside because there s been tornado warning issued. the video box on the side of the screen until a split second ago, the video box was of the area where the this is our local weather guy here talking about specifics of tampa, we have been stealing their local they are radar that s ground base there to which we use our afill affiliates for access. we thank our friends, sky tower hurricane watch weather here. it s right over marco island now and because of that they re about to be in the eye there in marco island. inside the eye of hurricane irma in just a matter of minutes and then by tonight at 8:00 o clock, this thing ought to be slightly north of fort myers, by tomorrow morning it should be north of
like i said, severe turbulence and a lot of rain, and it was a small eyewall, so we had to work really quickly to drop the weather instruments. usually in a storm you have an eye that might be 30 nautical miles, so you have more time to work on dropping your weather instruments. in this case, everything happened so quickly with the small eye like that. there s a lot going on, and we were just having to work as a crew together and deal with the task at hand and just back each other up all the way. so it was a pretty intense ride, but overall worked out and we got some good data out of that. i was expecting this going in to patricia, but this was definitely the most severe storm i ve flown to date. normally when you break out in the eye, you have what we call a stadium effect, so you see the whole eye wall from inside the eye, which is a very good
so i was expecting this going in to patricia, but this was definitely the most severe storm that i ve flown to date, as far as turbulence. and you were flying, i know, low, in order to get your instruments, in order to get all the data. what could you see when you looked at the surface of the ocean. normally when you break out in the eye, you would have what we call a stadium effect. so you d see the whole eye wall from inside the eye, which is a really good picture, and you can look straight up, sometimes, see clear skies, but we didn t have any of that. we could just see lightning flashes and that was pretty much it. all right, captain allen, thank you so much for being with us. you re welcome. thanks for having me. all right. i want to go now to meteorologist jennifer gray. jennifer, how bad is this going to be? this could possibly be catastrophic, especially for the town that this eye crosses over. and it is doing that as we speak. the good news about this storm, if the
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some tornadoes, lots of hail. all the way from nebraska, texas, all the way to buffalo, new york, is where the slight risk is today. 48 million people live in this area today. we ll keep you advised this afternoon if we get any tornadoes on the ground. they need it the least, as if anyone needs it, but they need it the least. thank you. as chad mentioned, very important to remember the 1:00 eastern hour, the people who actually braved that vehicle, the storm chasers who just got inside the eye of a tornado with their big darth vader-like vehicle is going to talk to us what it was like and whether they would do it again. we re going to take you back to boston. the marathon bombings, we ll see where this case stands and where the story stands and if, if there s a possibility anyone else was involved. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule.