And a Forward Movement which i like. Because the faster this thing goes, the faster it gets out of here. Now moving north, northeast at 12, the pressures, continue to fall as well. Again, its been since 2005. Since a hurricane made land fall in florida. That streak may end tonight as this become as minimal hurricane early tomorrow morning. Youre looking somewhere just east of apalachicola. Thats where storm surge are going to be. We still are going to deal with Tropical Storm force winds from pasco county north. Your current wind sustained from that buoy showing 63 mile per hour gusts. Sustaid winds are at45. Tropical storm warning Pasco Hernando Citrus County. Coastal flood advisoriesllsboro. Wi anticipation of high tides we will talk more about that. It is we the forow s laterhis tel n. And limited with flooding a lot cleared out overnight. From yesterday. But we do have one big thingo note out of Pinellas County. Skyfox took this earlier shot mlk street completely bl off due to lots
News channel 8s Meredyth Censullo is in pasco county. Jamel lanee in Pinellas County. And our ryan hughes in Sarasota County this morning. We want to start with leigh to get the latest from the tampa studios on the storm. Its still a Tropical Storm and still has winds of 60 Miles Per Hour. But look how big this is. This is the center of circulation and seeing rounds of rain coming in near the coastline from it. And the latest advisories remain. Hurricane panhandle and northern portion of the big bend of florida. But closer to home, a Tropical Storm warning. And that means that we could feel Tropical Stormforce wind speeds in citrus, hernando and pasco within 36 hours. Heres the latest forecast. 60Miles Per Hour sustained winds. One big change, picking up forward speed finally. Yesterday, it was basically stationary and now its moving north, northeast at 12 Miles Per Hour. This afternoon, 65 Miles Per Hour winds, getting stronger. After midnight, it could strength on the a category one
We continue to follow trough hernando. Tropical storm hernando. Im gee. A huge storm pushing through georgia into South Carolina. Extends from virginia down to the middle of the gulf of mexico. It did make landfall at 1 30 this morning at a category 1 hurricane with 80 winds along the panhandle of florida, making it the first hurricane to make landfall in florida in 11 years. I can barely believe it. The Flash Flood Watch does continue through the evening. We have, obviously, a saturated ground, plus we have the threat over the next couple of hours of high tide combined with downpours. These are the feeder bands that in the clouds in citrus and hernando county. Were seeing popup showers worsen the flood threat. We do have some clearer conditions finally through most of pinellas, hillsborough, and northern portions of polk county. The heaviest rain that came through pinellas, hillsborough, and folk county is in sarasota, highlands and desoto and pu this is tropical downpours. Huge rain
And how long it will hang around. Gentleman i just got email my day labor day soccer tournament schedule. Fields are saturated our viewing area saturated. Its water polo tournament now saturated, thats an understatement at this point. Yeah, we continue, were still watching the rain on skytower radar. Its going to continue throughout the afternoon. Has to been shifting a bit further to the south. But behind the main band, wee actually watching these smaller areas redeveloping. Pete beach. Still rough. It is. Its rough. Going to get better though. A couple of concerns we have for the afternoon, one of course any more rain, just aggravates fresh water flooding situation. Number two we do have high tide. Weve been on air long enough high tide to low tide. Tide coming back in again. So at the time of high tide we may see a be a normally high they wont a bad as they were this morning. Weve seen this before. Where you have that wind coming miles an hour. It still causes problems in some areas
To buy it. They said no, they want us off the property. Reporter tonight this mother is hoping for a miracle. Im lost. Im homeless. I dont have anywhere to go. Reporter in tampa, clifton french, abc action news. Well, judge university in the last hour we got a call from the bank. They are giving this family an extension until at least october 7th while they investigate what happened. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. Good evening, everyone. This is a look at category 4 hurricane matthew. Stngerhing is a beast getting new ren is actabout to fly in right now. We will see if it potentially could become category 5. This will be a major issue for the island of jamaica sunday into monday. There is the latest track. Afterwards, theres the big question. Once it exits cuba, is it going to be more of a westerly track, northerly track, easterly or stall out . Stalls out for a three or four day stretch out in the bahamas. Obviously a lot of this can change. We will