a lull, but not of urine areas inland. it s as brutal as it gets. we have a major hurricane, category three, overland, producing dangerous winds, almost like a tornado strength, and flash flooding. let me show you the latest. landfall is at 3:00. landfall was at 150 miles an hour. now we brothers winds down to a category three, a little bit, so it s not as extreme, but still bad. there are still trees breaking, roof, flus, and shingles falling. this area here is what we call an extreme wind warning. it goes from arcadia up to sebring. this is where it sounds like there s a freight train outside your house. you re in your safe room with your kids, a typically a closet, an interior room, and blankets and pillows on top of yourself, and a mattress on top of you, and you are sitting there listening to the wind. you ve probably lost power and internet. just waiting it out, wondering when it s going to be. that s what s happening here now in south central portions of florida. there are three
an extremely dangerous hurricane, currently a high-end category 3. and across florida, people are bracing for a life-threatening storm surge and catastrophic flooding. and even before the hurricane makes landfall, authorities are warning residents to be on alert for tornadoes overnight. tropical tornadoes will occur very quickly. they will happen overnight tonight. they will occur during heavy rain. you will not be able to see them coming. if you get a weather alert, stay in an interior room of a secure structure, away from windows and doors, and protect your head and body from any debris. we want to show you these images. they showcase the impact earlier after a tornado hit the north perry airport, causing significant damage to several aircraft and hangers. right now, vietnam is being pummeled by typhoon noru. the storm made landfall earlier
and stay there. this wind is going to do a lot of damage. roofs coming off, a lot of things are going to be flying around. so for people that are in the areas that are not in evacuation zone, but you re in the path of the eye wall, you need to treat this like a tornado. go to an interior room, stay in that area and don t come out. if the eye passes over and things get better, don t think it s over president backside of the storm is going to be worse. kpr some comparisons, people who remember hurricane charlie, you can put hurricane charlie in this eye wall. this is a much bigger storm that s going to hit a lot more areas and you ll see a longer duration of wind. and the primary thing now is there s little time left to take these steps to protect yourself to survive this storm. whoa, whoa, whoa. i want you to say that again. what did you say about charlie versus this storm? the amount of wind from hurricane charlie would fit in the eye of this storm.
you have to know that. you don t want to go to the basement if you re in a low elevation. interior room, you want to be pillows, blankets, a mattress. you go into the bathroom and put a mattress on top of you and you wait and pray and hope for it to pass. that s the situation that many people are going through in this area right now. the wind gusts, they re going to pick up. a lot of our wind centers are going to break. they re going to stop working. we ve had numerous gusts to 60 to 70 and we re not going to see many reports above 100. and as far as the hurricane goes, we just did get the new update at 11:00. as i said, it s not much of a forecast anymore since it s making landfall, but it is still a category four. did not go up to a category five. after the storm is over months from now, they ll go back through and look at all the data
a category 4 or 5 hurricane is a substantial storm, and, you know, the main thing we are warning or residents to do, if you haven t evacuated, you must shelter in place. it s too dangerous to be on the roads now. we re asking residents to shelter in place, stay in an interior room away from windows, and, you know, we re monitoring the storm, we have a plan in place once the storm does pass through. our emergency operations? respect will have strategic teams assessment teams that we can deploy throughout the city. we have a plan in place, we re just waiting to get thus the