least half over land. take a look at fort pierce. melbourne has a high tied at midnight. worst possible outcome for this. west palm is going to have hurricane force winds but on the backside it should not have the storage surge. everyone from the eye northward is going to have hour of hour of pounding surge, heavy rain and hurricane force winds that extend from the coast inland 60 miles. that s well past i-95. here is jacksonville. never in the history of the tropical season in the tlabtic have a hurricane that makes land fall north of daytona. if the system stays over water it is going to continue the fuel the storm. that is its gasoline. if it moves inland it could create wild impact. catastrophic area but only for six or eight hours. this is going to stay over
is your tornado watch in effect for parts of missouri and of course arkansas until about 3:00 local time. but as we zoom in towards cincinnati, arkansas, take you back a few frames, you can see the line of storms coming through, it came through very quickly. three people dead, destroyed a number of buildings. a lot of power outages. and the storm did come through as a very quick rate. about 40 miles per hour. the individual cells racing to the northeast at about 50 miles per hour. the storm system is not done just yet. it s going to cause more problems out ahead of the boundary, places like st. louis in the afternoon, perhaps maybe even over towards along the i-44 corridor, maybe even st. charles before the afternoon is out. it is going to be a pretty interesting situation. the reason why we re seeing will will unfold is simple. we ve got a lot of muggy air coming in from the gulf of mexico that s been spun around by this area of high pressure. at the same time, enough frontal boundary