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Afternoon. hurricane force winds in tampa by tomorrow evening. rainfall could be looking at 6 to 8 inches of rain and the storm surge 5 to 8 feet. now we move to naples, farther south, tropical storm winds arrive early tomorrow morning. hurricane force could arrive shortly after sun rise on sunday. then we talk about rainfall. this is where we could look at really heavy amounts of rain. we re talking near a foot of rain and some of the areas outside of naples could pick up 15 inches of rain. storm surge is going to be a big factor. 10 to 15 feet nor region. here s a look at the radar going forward to show you where those heavy rain bands are going to be. on sunday we expect it to cross over the kees and continue up the west coast, we re talking naples, fort myers, into tampa and pushing up jacksonville into georgia. it s going to take strong winds into places like south carolina ....
Is near daytona beach. to give you a sense this storm is out there, it is coming, it is coming fast. but it has been calm in a lot of parts of florida today, here in fort myers other than occasional bands of rains over the last hour or so it s been sunny outside, folks have been walking around. but they know based on the new tracking we got this morning that this storm has moved west of fort myers, naples, tampa, all are in the line of sight of this. we re watching to see if there s any movement in this storm because that could have a big difference. i want to bring in randy kay. you ve been driving around and one of the things in fort myers a lot of people thought they were going to ride it out. and now that it shifted west they they re going to shelters. we were able to stop by a shelter and there were so many people out there. we were going up 75 north and ....
yeah, we started in the cafeteria with the open area in there. we then opened to back corridors that had safe passage. then eventually we had to open the full upper level. there s absolutely zero gas out there. if someone shows up at your door, and is utterly desperate what do you do? half an hour ago we had a couple out of naples. they were headed north. they ran out of gas. they came off the highway looking for a place. we have them in, set up for the night here. obviously we can t turn someone like that away. charlie hit here. this one, the path changed in the last 48 hours. it looks like a direct what s going through your mind as you re preparing for this storm and the responsibility of all of these souls in here? for me it s keeping a real positive atmosphere in there. they re going to be scared. the ones who have been here through andrew and they talk all of the different storms and their experiences so as long as we can keep it happy and positive, then i m doing what ....
Around miami we re looking at 4 to 6 feet. areas of key west, 5 to 10 feet. naples, 10 to 15 feet. so that s going to be the highest point. but as you go further north, places like tampa could look at 5 to 8 feet. so you have to understand what this means in terms of real scale things. take a home. if you talk about storm surge that s 5 to 10 feet, not only does it cover at least human beings but at the 10 feet point you ve entirely covered the first story of a building. in some cases we re talking 15 feet, that creeps into the second story of a home. but the other thing you have to keep in mind too are the waves that are mixed in. this is where you get big innone designation. the other thing to note, it s not just the water. it s everything the water has taken out. so you have strong currents from the waves that could be knocking ....
Likely going to take its first landfall over the florida keys, where that is to be determine preponderance of the evidence we have to the wait to find out how quickly that storm makes the sharp turn to the north to tell where it s going to go. it s likely to go along places like naples, fort myers, into tampa and then move all inward and push into the states like georgia, alabama and tennessee. it will reintensify back to a category 4 storm. look at how warm the water is in this region, upper 80s, that is the perfect fuel for a storm like this to be able to intensify, that s what we expect it to do before it makes landfall. we ve been hearing a lot of this. what is the timing for a lot of the citys in florida. let s look at tampa, tropical storm winds will have arrived in some of these areas by tomorrow ....