The vast majority stretching over 220 plus. severe wind gust reports. some of these the strongest hurricane wind gusts across areas of mississippi, kentucky, the state of tennessee as well. very strong wind gusts in praise with the storms. look at the lightning data. able to tabulate 106,000 lightning strikes and it speaks to the height of this. the weekend and it moves away off the eastern 1/3 of the u.s. notice quite a bit of rainfall observed here. flooding widespread whether it s arkansas, wisconsin, as far north as iowa. we ve seen as much as 5 plus inches come down. we ve talked about the tornadoes. the preliminary number puts us at 292. 80 is the beginning of march. almost matching what we expect in the entire month as we approach peak season. laura? pedram we know you are
Sustained winds of 165 miles, or 265 kilometers pr hour. if maria makes landfall in puerto rico as a category 5 hurricane, it will be the strongest storm to ever hit that island. one official there issuing a dire warning, evacuate or die. and our reporters are across the region covering this storm. meteorologist derek van dam is in san juan, puerto rico and joins us now live. derek, good to see you. what are conditions like on the ground there as puerto rico awaits the inevitable direct impact from hurricane maria, and what s the speed of those winds right now? reporter: rosemary, just within the past hour we have seen conditions deteriorate very quickly. the national weather service out of san juan reporting that hurricane wind gusts have reached the far eastern sides of this island territory and where i m standing now easily tropical
First responders can no longer respond to emergency calls once those winds reach that tropical storm force. mr. mayor, we re going to continue checking with you. we appreciate that and hope the folks in port saint lieu see and all over the east are heeding that kind of warning n to take this lightly at all. this is a deadly storm already. the death toll still rising as we re finding out more about what s happened in the caribbean. we ll continue to check in with you in the hours and days ahead. i want to go to tom sater, though, just for an update. i believe you have some new information about key west and shft force of the winds that have finally hit key west. key west is now reporting, anderson, our very first hurricane wind gusts. at 74 miles per hour. anything at 74 miles per hour or greater is hurricane strength. so it s begun. i want to take a look at our track, which we will get a new one at the top of the hour. but notice the cone of uncertainty. we continue to watch the st
We have the updates coming at the top of every hour, or thereabouts. steve just got this latest 7:00 a.m. update, any changes? it s right on target. they said between 7:00 and 8:00 the eye wall will come ashore. you can see on our satellite and as it cycles through onto the adar imagine this is coming on shore and thrashing areas of the keys with hurricane wind gusts, a 94 miles per hour wind gust just recorded in key west. we will see these wind gusts up to 115, possibly 130 miles per hour through about 9:30 this morning. they re calling it an extreme wind warning, meaning do not be outside at any cost here as we have a very dangerous situation unfolding here. this is the brunt of the storm here for the next several hours in the keys, this is as bad as
Monthly bills by over three hundred dollars. go to lendingtree.com right now. harris: in just the last little while we know that the first hurricane wind gusts at that official force was reported. details on that. the smith short-lived station which is out in the florida keys, 74 miles an hour gusting at 119 when gus just a little time ago. let s bring in meteorologist adam from the fox extreme weather center. adam, how do they know that this is one wind gust? adam: when it meets the criteria. we have those stations all across the united states. the ones out there, honestly, cut catching the winds off the water. you get those wins and that is just what it is.