hug the coast following right along with that jet stream is. now it looks like it s going to be picking up some speed and then pulling away from the coast, but you can better believe there is going to be a rip current here. you may see bands of heavy rainfall. we re going to see it gradually weaken. it is currently a category 2. we anticipate by morning it s going to be a category 1 hurricane, but still the impacts are going to be felt across this region. cape hatteras, moorhead city, wilmington, myrtle beach, south carolina, hurricane warnings in effect until we see hurricane dorian go down on its last legs, perhaps by the morning hours a much weaker system. natalie? many people will be breathing a sigh of relief when that happens. all right. karen, thanks so much for bringing us the latest there. well, some of the worst destruction we ve seen so far has been in the abaco islands of the bahamas. paula newton and her crew made it to abaco and saw the
under a tornado watch. but just outside wilmington we have a tornado warning and south of kingston we have a tornado warning as well. charleston, we saw a 55-mile-per-hour wind in the is going to be starting to continue to ramp up. right now this is the latest from the national hurricane center. 50 miles east/southeast of charleston, south carolina. 110-mile-per-hour winds. moving north/northeast at 8 miles per hour. now here s what we look at. here s wherewe we we were talki about the tornadoes. national severe prediction center issuing an enhanced risk for severe weather cape hatteras, moorhead city, wilmington and a little further to the north. we ve got a slight risk, this is where we could see severe tornadoes. nantucket is under a tropical storm watch. we have tropical storm watches up into the del mar peninsula,
and then it will just run right along the coast from charleston right on through wilmington and up through cape hatteras, like moorhead city and the like. here is the storm right now off shore, daytona beach right there. there s the center of the storm. the eye, i believe, is getting smaller, which means the winds will eventually pick up. we re at 105 right now. whether you get the eye, middle of the eye or not, it s not that important because it s the eyewall that has all the wind. that eyewall from side to side is 50 miles wide, a 25-mile radius from the middle to the outside. so brunswick, 40-mile-an-hour, daytona, 37. these are the exact gusts we just had. up toward savannah and charleston, not quite picking up around 80-mile-per-hour gusts. up the beach to myrtle, that will be 70 or 80 miles per hour. that s justf it s just offshore. john, everyone here will pick up these 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts.
coach beaches coast beaches of florida. charleston, georgeton, myrtle beach, wrightsville beach. moorhead city. we could get a landfall here. by then it would be around a category 1 or a category 2. they still obviously can get some damage from those. so here is kind of how i m looking at it. florida impacts, moderate storm surge concern. as far as inland flooding and winds go, i don t think we re going to see a lot of significant damage not with that offshore track. our friends in georgia, same thing for you. storm surge. i don t think the high winds are going to quite get into the georgia coastline. there is a little better chance that the higher winds could get into areas of south carolina, especially myrtle beach toward the north carolina border. i have wind possibility impacts in the moderate range along with the storm surge. i don t think the rainfall is going to be too big of an issue there. north carolina, very similar to
tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night. and then as we go the storm about the time it gets even to jacksonville, we expect the next turn, that s when it will make the northeasterly swing and where it makes that northeasterly swing, how far to the east it makes it will determine if we get a landfall or not here in eastern north carolina. it s looking better for georgia. coastal south carolina, you still could get hit. we re not completely taking you out yet. your forecast, at least as far as direct impacts go, is looking a little bit better. the only thing you re going to get, though, is going to be the storm surge no matter what. here s some of our computer models as they bring it up here off the coastline, too, of south carolina, then notice a bunch of them do bring it over here, near atlantic beach, moorhead city, the lower half of the outer banks could possibly etch gven direct hit. this is the biggest impact we re going to have in florida over the next 24 hours. the storm surge