very studio our meteorologist bill karins warned us this would come ashore as a category 4. he was right. and he hasn t left. and he is back with us tonight. hey, bill. hey. just before i get to the new update from the national hurricane center that just came out, we do have a tornado warning in effect now for the hilton head area and the buford, south carolina area. that s just one of the hazards that we have here. we do have this tornado watch that s going to go through the night. and that s with this little storm cell coming in just in the north of savannah. again, it hasn t produced a tornado but it could, and i m sure a lot of people had their little alerts on their phones going off in that area near hilton head and the buford area. here s the new update from the hurricane center. we re at 75 miles per hour. we re at the weakest we possibly can be for a category 1 hurricane. and after this it will drop down to a tropical storm. it s still accelerating to the northeast at 20 mile
yes, the most destructive winds are done. a scary night through much of georgia. macon georgia, it will begin to weaken. the area hit hard this morning, tallahassee included towards the measurement cobeach. panama beach they re done. we still have storm force warnings up through the carolinas. winds now at 90 miles per hour. that s good. 17 he-mile-per-hour winds. let s weaken it as fast as we can, try to spare people more misery. through 2:00 a.m., eye just south of macon. the center of circulation. over augusta as the sun comes up and rains through the carolina. still isolated power out ands with winds 40 to 50-mile-an-hour. we do have flood watch up the east coast. we could have minor problems was that already. the rain shield from atlanta
hilton head and the buford area. here s the new update from the hurricane center. we re at 75 miles per hour. we re at the weakest we possibly can be for a category 1 hurricane. and after this it will drop down to a tropical storm. it s still accelerating to the northeast at 20 miles per hour. and is now getting very close to the macon area. and eventually by tomorrow morning it will be near augusta. and it s still a very big large rain shield with this. here s the new forecast path. again, we re not expecting a lot of damage from here on out. so it doesn t really matter where the center goes over. we may actually see stronger gusts along the coast with that southerly inflow coming off the water tomorrow morning. so lake charleston could have and hilton head 40 to 50-mile-per-hour winds coming off the water and the surf will be all turned up also. but the storm path will take it into the carolinas here. winds not a big deal as we said, 40 to 45-mile-per-hour winds, that s not going t
hurricane force winds in geor a georgia. it is really important. it will still produce those hurricane force winds into georgia. not just the damage winds along the coast. you saw how large the rain shield is. you ll get the winds inland. the idea it s going go into central georgia. we ll still see high winds. at what point does it stop worrying you. at some point it becomes a normal stand that a normal city is handle. at that point it does. one of the worries that i have is once you get inland, we have such a focus on the winds, but if you think about the flow around the hurricane, even when
around counterclockwise with the storm. it seems to remain a constant as the storm moves up. why is that? the thunderstorms that are regenerating themselves. normally, if you get a storm that is a cat 4 or cat 5, kit are the ring around it. but what we re having is we re having a sheer. so what shear is fast upper-level winds that destroy and eat away thunderstorms. that s happening. and also there is dry air. so we get these thunderstorms that are forming, popping up into the atmosphere. and they try to wrap back around. notice they make it about halfway with the bright yellows. and then the dry air gets sucked into that. wow. and then they collapse. and also that shear kind of blows the top off of them too. it doesn t allow the thunderstorms to wrap around the back side. i mean, if i stand in front of this, and you only watch the top side of this, you re like wow. how impressive is that rain shield and those wind gusts that we just saw tampa and lester and allen. and now all th