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This literally is the final minutes of preparation time for anyone in this area, and if anyone still remains in that area, they should still get out while they can. even if i was as far inland as tallahassee at i-10, i would consider getting out of there, because youre not going to have power for weeks after the storm goes through. if you can live with that and you dont want to worry about trees falling on top of your car, things like that, just get out of there. theyre going as far as tallahass...

This afternoon. its going to move very quickly. the good news from this, its not going to linger but were still going to feel the impacts of a devastating major hurricane. then it will continue to quickly move northeast as a tropical storm. remember, were going to see rainfall in areas hard-hit by florence the last couple weeks. heres one of the computer models showing a landfall around 3:00 p.m., this is just one reliable forecast model, when that makes its northeast turn that were going to see...

Its deepened over the last couple hours. its almost to a cat 4 with 125-mile-an-hour winds. the rain band is not far from the coast. this literally is the final minutes of preparation time for anyone in this area, and if anyone still remains in that area, they should still get out while they can. even if i was as far inland as tallahassee at i-10, i would consider getting out of there, because youre not going to have power for weeks after the storm goes through. if you can live with that and you...

Whats the best way to explain that kind of thing to the folks watching? >> thats one of the situations. theres several different things with hurricane michael. the pressure was in the top three lowest pressures we have had u.s. landfalls. theres some famous storms in the past we can think of over the years. the other part of it is since records go back to 1851, the hurricane center, you cant find another category 4 that hit the panhandle. history making, very devastating storm and one we will ne...

Panhandle of florida tomorrow probably midday. this will move quickly. that is the good news but this could be a very destructive, bringing catastrophic wind and rain and storm surge to this vulnerable area. listen to your local officials, local weather forecasters. hurricane watches and warnings are posted for the panhandle of florida. the big bend is where we could get the incredible amount of storm surge on the northeast quadrant that will impact this area over 12 foot storm surge, that could...

Apalachicola. a lot of wind and not a lot of you were level winds hinder this storm from strength. 91 mile-per-hour. cat 2 is 96. we expect this to be a category 3. a major hurricane when it makes landfall sometime tomorrow. now we are predicting midday in the afternoon. exact timing not still yet to be determined. next advisory we get at 8:00 a.m. we will watch that. here is the track. center of the storm making landfall sometime perhaps around the 1:00 p.m. hour around the florida panhandle. t...

There is the track, the new track in the next couple hours but the bottom line is we are running out of time. this will make landfall tomorrow. computer models are in good agreement it is going to be a florida panhandle landfall but the impacts being felt along the west coast of florida as well as inland. hurricane warnings posted for parts of georgia and alabama and you can see the sea surface temperatures, the warm waters we look at in terms of how much power the storm could get as it moves no...

Panhandle on wednesday. what are you watching right now? >> im watching this go from a 1 to a 2 to a 3 before landfall, kate. this will be a major hurricane making landfall, plus or minus 100 miles from panama city. it could be over to the right, apalachicola, or to the left, probably pensacola. but were only 48 or 54 hours from landfall. you go, wow, that really happened fast? the gulf of mexico is not very big and its very warm. so the hurricane hunter aircraft have been in it, seeing the rain...

Environment, not a great environment to strengthen but as it moves north and east ward it will have a chance to catch up and perhaps the strengthening storm as it makes landfall, again, we think probably wednesday morning, wednesday afternoon, wednesday evening and then eventually its going the move across the southeast but its going to be a quick mover, thats the good news but we are still dealing with category 2 hurricane, upwards of 100 miles per hour sustained winds for florida panhandle. no...

We have hurricane huntner here and maximum gusts around 61 miles per hour. we like to look at the ska getty plots from pensacola and notice the curvature of the models where we do not want it to go. to the carolinas. they we want to see a faster moving storm to keep our rain totals low. but this will be adjusted over the next couple of days. when you look at some of the computer models, and where it may make landfall, again, this should slide quickly across the panhandle, but i still wouldnt be ...