a second landfall, as i was mentioning. we have a new report that has come in from noaa. nbc meteorologist bill karins is with us now. what did you learn from it? they said the northern eye wall was moving on shore. however strong nate is, we re going to find out in the next hour and a half. if we don t hear of really high winds or no recorded high winds in the next hour and a half, that s better news for everyone in alabama and north georgia that has to eventually go through the storm, too. still reporting 85 mile-per-hour winds. this graphic over here is the satellite view of the storm. i m going to put on the current stats. this is the 11:00 advisory just in, says 85 mile-per-hour winds, a solid category one, it s moving to the north at 20 miles per hour, still moving pretty fast, 60 miles east of new orleans and about 30 miles south
a.m., we ll be talking power outages, the storm is moving fast. we ll have power outages all through the state of alabama. much of the state will wake up in the dark tomorrow morning. you were talking about biloxi, let s go straight to biloxi, mississippi. how does it look there, kerry. there s a breeze, certainly a strong one, we re not talking about hurricane force winds yet. as bill was talking about, along the coast heres harks been the idea of a nighttime storm with a storm surge, that s why they have a kerr few in this area, and many areas, along the coast, a curfew is in place, most people seem to be abiding by the curfew. one of the biggest concerns, this is a nighttime storm, there would be a storm surge of up to 11 feet, that somebody would be out in the water, in their car driving unaware of how quickly the water was rising or driving down a road, getting hit by some of that water as it was rising or driving into it.
it the strongest winds we ve seen with the storm. we haven t heard of a lot of power outages up to this point. this will be the first real strong bands. and if we re going to get those power outages, it s with this band as it s now shifting on shore. now beginning to arrive in biloxi and pascagoula and everywhere in between. it will move up the i-10 shortly. once you get done with this heavy band and the strong winds there s nothing much behind it. the winds die off pretty quickly on the back side. we ll continue to monitor with our strongest wind gusts. these are the current gusts. really nothing that s going to cause any problems whatsoever. but now we re biloxi was up to 54. now we re at 46, richard. so we ll wait and see. that strongest band is coming on shore. i hope we don t see any strong winds with it. i hope that maybe the winds aren t going down to the surface. but we ll find out shortly. you talked about biloxi and that beautiful bay. we re going to talk to the mayor. st
perhaps ten feet. you saw the reporting from kerry sanders and kristen dahlgren, you saw the wins mods moving pretty much parallel to the kcoastline there. as we compare this to harvey, give our viewers a contextual understanding with nate, again thinking of harvey. very different storm. harvey did most of its damage from the rainfall, the storm stalled, dropped 40 upwards to 50 inches of rain and caused floodi flooding. in this case we have a fast-moving storm. the winds are coming mainly out of the east here. but once the band that we talked about passes, the winds will indeed come out of the south. that s what will drive the storm surge ashore and is always the case with hurricanes, that s our greatest threat along the coast. hey, ed.
cities there on the gulf coast. we re worried about biloxi. we re worried about mobile, pascagoula. also in our eyesight we ve got many other cities. new orleans it appears they may have dodged a bullet right now. already getting some information. nbc news just speaking with alabama power. their spokesperson telling us that 3,000 customers are experiencing power outages in all the greater mobile area. they re saying it s also fewer outages than there were at 9:30 p.m. eastern on saturday. the state they re saying had been dry for the past couple weeks so there s not a lot of muddy saturated ground. that is also good. which would make it more likely that power lines could go down. however, the outer bands of the storm have started to come through. no big sustained winds. they have crews on standby. bill karins still with us. you re telling to us look out