significant event as far as the water push goes. i want to remind our residents to take hurricane dorian very seriously. it s a category 5 very powerful storm. it can be tempting to look at those spaghetti models and that track and hope for that turn to the north. jacksonville, florida, is one of the biggest cities in the u.s., and it could be directly in dorian s path. cnn s dianne gallagher is there. reporter: hurricane dorian may still be days away from actually passing here around jacksonville, but officials are not taking any chances. a local state of emergency goes into effect at midnight in jacksonville, and mandatory evacuations kick in at 8:00 a.m. for zones a and b as well as naval station mayport. several of the surrounding counties also have mandatory evacuations in effect in preparation for whatever this unpredictable as far as local officials are concerned hurricane may bring. they re not quite sure what the impact will be, but they look at the path, and they know t
current projections, but once recently, too, that are bringing again, our biggest concern is the water up much higher. that is that storm stays a combination of all these offshore and as it starts to things is going to cause binge problems on the florida move up, it s going to be coastline if it keeps heading west. pushing an awful lot of water i m going to watch it closely. until it starts making that, you off the ocean into the inlets, into the sebastian river inlet and the lagoons. it may have the possibility of know, strong north turn, we need to assume it s going to touch overtopping some dunes. the coastline. so we just want to make sure that this is going to be a we don t want to be caught off guard by a storm that is this strong. mike, i ve been out there fairly significant very wet, very significant event as far as with you covering these storms, riding through these storms, the water push goes. documenting what happens. i want to remind our one thing that i ve learned
hours as we approach landfall. the storm in the textbooks is a perfect looking hurricane. all four quadrants have filled out. we ve got a well-defined eyes. . they re already seeing wind gusts in excess of 35 miles per hour along the coast, 33 in apalachacola. we re expecting a landfall between 1:00 and 3:00, yet to be determined, but the strength of the storm is going to be unfortunately the legacy of it. storm surge is going to be an issue. tampa bay, we re talking about 3 to 4 feet, but as we get up northward to horseshoe bay, fish creek, saint marks, we could have a storm surge up to 14 feet, that is above your homes in some cases. that is going to be extraordinarily dangerous. the storm surge, the water push is what kills the most people in these hurricanes. flooding is going to be a big
guys have been talking about is our biggest concern as we continue to watch this storm. some of that flooding in grand isle, normally you are concerned about surge coming in off the gulf. a lot of that water its coming until from a bay north of the grand area. the winds wrap around the system and come in from the north. that s where most of of those what for concerns are. we have the same concern for new orleans and for a lot of the areas around lake pontchartrain. lake pontchartrain is north of the city as well and we could see that water push back in. as of 9:00 we only received a handsful of requests for state resources which were being taken care of. we were prepared for a cat 2 at one point, even a category 3.