It is starting to develop a centric eye wall, which means it is close to that eye wall replacement, which means we could see temporary weakening as we head through the next hour or so but after that, it is likely that will intensely, rapidly intensify and continue to work its way toward the gulf coast, as a category 3 storm, as we head through the rest of your friday, expected to make landfall later this evening. So well show you here, its exact track, as it continues to track really to the north of Corpus Christi, is where we are expecting that heaviest impact as a category 3 storm, before it swoops down, back into the gulf of mexico, as a Tropical Storm early next week. So heres what were tracking in terms of rainfall, because weve been talking about it all day, flooding will be the primary threat, as we head through the next couple of days. So here are those impacts again. A major impact for wind. This will be a category 3 hurricane. Winds in excess of 111 miles per hour, storm surg
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Morning. First were going to go to rob schmitt live in Corpus Christi. Rob, how is it looking where you are . Rob well, i can tell you guys Corpus Christi didnt get nearly what some of these coastal communities, smaller towns that took the eye got. Here is one example of some of the damage. And hopefully this is about as bad as it gets here in Corpus Christi. We just simply dont know yet. This is a big bring. Check out the side of this wall right behind me here. This entire wall came crashing down somehow during this storm. Let me get rid of that. You can see the mess behind me. This entire wall this is about 6 or 8 units behind me. Look up at the roof behind me here. Can you see the roof going up and down in the wind . Its incredible. I dont think the roof is going to give but it wouldnt have taken much more for this entire. Look at that that is something else. So something brought this wall down. I guess you have to assume it was the wind. Look at that roof go up. That is just amazin
And winds to be extremely lifethreatening conditions along the eastern coast prevent water levels have risen to 2 feet and will continue to rise to was much as 12 feet near to the right of the center where it comes to shore. We are expecting the center to come to shore in the Corpus Christi to port oconnor area near midnight tonight. Winds have increased to 125 Miles Per Hour, upper level in the upper end of category 3. We also expect to have serious flooding in the area of landfall because the storm is going to be stalling near the same area for the next three days or longer. Rainfall totals to 1525 inches, locally 35 inches. It will cause tremendous flooding in the areas near the coast and just inland. When the next 23 days, the area along the lower to middle texas coast will have lifethreatening conditions. All preparations should now be complete in the warning area. At the National Hurricane center, im at rappaport. Trace thank you, add rappaport giving us an idea how bad this coul