morning of a possible tornado or at least a funnel cloud touching down. and we know that some of these tornadoes have actually started to rip through apartment complexes here removing roofs and people had to be evacuated from those apartment complexes. so these isolated tornadoes, this stinging rain, this powerful wind, this is what we can expect for the rest of today, craig. all right. simone, thank you. the national hurricane center has just issued its latest advisory on hurricane dorian. al roker standing by once again for us. before we get to the advisory, you ve been talking about the tornadoes for the past few hours. looks like we ve seen a few of those touchdown. we have and there are more tornado warnings. this is something we talked about yesterday that we were concerned about. it normally happens when you have a vigorous hurricane just offshore. this whole area for myrtle beach up to fayetteville, consistencyton, cape hatteras is
with you. that s really been one of the epi centers with some of the earliest flooding in new bern and now with the location she is now where those volunteers and others are staging in order to try to go out in their boats and continue to rescue people as they have been. extraordinary work, the kind of thing we saw in houston and harvey. one of those gust of winds that s coming by. it s a kind of a stinging rain. there is a little bit of debris in the air. also, you are conscious of the the possibility for any kind of flying debris. there is a couple of light posts that have some metal on top of it that has flown off for one or two of them. so just keeping an eye on that. i want to check in with chad myers at the weather center to get an overview of where this storm is right now for anybody in this area listening and
significant emergencies. but beyond that, port lavaca is a ghost town. as you can see here, harvey wash ago shore with the significant winds and the sideways, stinging rain and water from the storm surge flooding this part of town. whoooo. going somewhere? here s some advice. tripadvisor now searches more. .than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird s words. tripadvisor.
wind damage and power outages, we ll start to notice those as early as tomorrow morning. and tomorrow afternoon, flooding rains, start to push inland. also start to notice major wind damage, more power outages and then we get to the peak of the storm. that s monday night. wind gusts, 80 miles per hour. sustained winds 40 to 60 miles per hour. wind and rain, combines with the soft ground and the leaves on the trees, and that s why so many trees will come down. combine that with high tide at 6:00 to 9:00, and coastal flooding is a huge concern. we go into tuesday, the storm is not going anywhere too quickly. it sits over pennsylvania, the torrential rains, flooding rains continue for unland towns, rivers start to overflow their banks, and the tide cycles come and go, and the winds will be sustained up to around 30 to 40 miles per hour with highest gusts as well a lot of stress on
the water behind me is raging already, and i m standing at a line i don t know if you can see it, in the sand where high tide came earlier this morning, up to here, and they expect it to be deeper into town, about six blocks or so in that direction into town before this is over, irene came to the edge of the dunes here, this storm expected to go even deeper into the town. one of the barrier islands where there is a mandatory evacuation in place. we have been driving around, and for the most part, people are heeding the warning. today, there is somewhat a spectator event. a lot of people taking pictures. i have to believe they will be out of here by 4:00 this afternoon when the wind picks up, when the water picks up and it starts to rain, things will change dramatically. mandatory evacuation order in