You can see the intense bands of heavy rain, thunderstorms strong winds spiralling in around the center of hermine and if we close in you can see that eye wall is now brushing the coast near appalachacola and to the east hitting florida for the first time in nearly 11 years that a hurricane has made landfall and you can see the intense of bands of rain wrap around the center of the storm and that is where the most intense part of the storm is always situated so it is happening right now with that landfall located in the big bend of florida. The last time a hurricane made landfall was 2005 that was hurricane wilma and this is the first u. S. Landfalling hurricane in two years. For us we have Tropical Storm watches in effect for the entire jersey shore as well as the delaware beaches and extends down into maryland and virginia, a watch means the potential is there for winds to be sustained over 40 Miles Per Hour, the possibility of Power Outages and Tropical Storm warnings in effect from
Florida and after its done with the Sunshine State its headed here to wash out our Holiday Weekend unfortunately. Thursday night jim is off im Rick Williams and the big story on action news is tracking hermine behind me is what it looks like from nasa satellites in space. And this is what it looks like from appacola the Florida Panhandle as the storm is lashing the gulf coast at this hour. We have Live Team Coverage this evening as Tropical Storm hermine watches have already been posted for our area action News Reporter christie is at the jersey shore where there is a costal concern this evening, and lets begin with metrologist adam joseph and the power of Storm Tracker six double scan as hermine is about to strike the u. S. And adam you have the latest. Live double scan to the south of tallahassee and winds sustained at 80 Miles Per Hour, you can see the intense bands of heavy rain, thunderstorms strong winds spiralling in around the center of hermine and if we close in you can see th