doppler indications and they put the tornado warnings out, and the sirens go out and people are woken in the middle of the night. you live anywhere, there s a possibility of tornadoes, you should have the tornado warning on your phone or the weather radios to go off to alert you to get you to safe rooms. they re doing that right now in pine bluff, arkansas. for today, we re going to have additional strong storms as they push to the deep south. that will be areas of western tennessee, all of mississippi, louisiana, and the areas around houston, too. we ll have to watch out for the strong storms. east coast is fine todayment tomorrow we get a few storms. by wednesday, the storm system is gone, a little bit of early rain in northern maine. that s it. we get a little bit of a break. nothing too severe during the middle of the week. the bigger story looks like thursday into friday. we get more rain in the south, another santa ana wind event, get ready for preemptive power outages in areas o
the aftermath of harvey and i thought the local the were not calling in the calvary cast enough. what are your biggest concerns at this hour this morning? safety, people stand in place. because all the people we can communicate perfectly with now, that s 3 million people, without power they don t have the quality of information they had yesterday. so those that do, with the weather radios and iphones and all of those advises, they should stay connected. but, unless we can continue to communicate with folks, people are going to get nervous and looking for signs to get on the road. it is imperative that the keep the road the clear because all those troops i m telling you about, they ve got to get in. saturday morning i left shreveport, louisiana and power
matter the strength or size of storm, it has to do with the counterclockwise as i understand and as it moves over land we get the possibility of weak spin-offs of tornadoes, the problem is a lot of are rain rafts, we can t see them coming you have weather radios, you want to make sure they are on. the problem, eric, we tell people to go to the lowest portion of the home with tornado and with storm surge the highest level of the home, so it s just there are no words except prayers right now and hopefully people are listening to their local officials. eric: prayers and thoughts of nation for the people of florida. arthel. arthel: florida keys are now seeing the first effects of hurricane irma as the eye of the storm moves closer to the coastline, adam housely live in key largo florida with the latest, hey, adam. hey, arthel. the conditions are continue to go deteriorate over the last five hours, six hours, the winds now are consistently 30 to
moisture from the gulf of mexico. so that s my one message right now, is maybe it s not raining right now, but every single pore cast that i have looked forecast that i have looked at is saying that it is going to rain, and we could see historic flooding over the next five days. okay, karen, that one was for you. let s take a look at some of the wind gusts we have seen, upwards of 130 miles per hour. this is a category four storm. this was a major event for the folks in texas, and the threat is not over yet. we still have a tornado watch in effect for southeast texas including houston, texas. we do have tornado-warned storms north of beaumont, okay? we have some rotation indicate here. these are typically weaker tornadoes, on the weak side, but in katy, texas, we ve got damage from a tornado that went through this morning, and that threat is ongoing through this evening. we ve got the fact that some of these could be rain-wrapped, you re not going to see them coming. so noaa weather
tornado watches but we have just spotted on doppler radar a tornado warning for north carolina. that s east of ashville. so we are still looking at the potential of severe storms tonight and overnight if you live in the south. no weather radios on. make sure you are listening to your forecast. then we have the cold side of the storm the purples and pinks, freezing rain and/or sleet. difficult if not impossible to travel on. winter weather advisories posted from the midwest to the great lakes to the northeast to new england where in some cases we could get upwards of a foot of snow. the ice accumulation is what i m concerned with. we could see a quarter of an inch to half an inch of ice on the power lines on the roadways heading into work tomorrow be be so careful. you cannot travel on ice. there s a look at your future radar as this storm moves in to canada. but we are still going to see the remnants of the cold front moving eastward and the potential for rain, freezing rain, a mixture