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Portion of the cone, but keep in mind, were talking about at least, again, a category 2 storm, if not potentially stronger than that as it makes landfall. and as you slow a storm down, it has a better chance of seeing some development as you go through the next couple of days. as far as where the system is headed after that, pushing up towards the mississippi valley, still a lot of uncertainty with that piece of the track, but we do expect this to be increasing to hurricane strength as we go thr...

Our models are all over the place. it is further off toward the west around mobile. pushing its way to the west of new orleans thats why we have a cone. the cone encompasses all of that and anywhere across the gulf. stronger storms especially some of the thunderstorms we are seeing right now hold and it looks very much like this is very much in the beginning tof the storm holding together and beginning to wind up. these two models i reference post very different pictures for rainfall totals whic...

West coast of florida. so, as far as specifics go, on the end of the forecast, when it gets closest to the united states, it should be somewhere very near key west as we go through about midnight sunday night into monday. it will be closest to tampa, it appears, monday morning. notice the cone of uncertainty still has tampa in it, orlando is now out, but all of a sudden, we have new orleans a possibility. so, the intensity forecast, veronica, three to four days in advance are usually horrible. >...

And the center of the storm coming right of new orleans. but i dont want to you focus on the center of the storm because anywhere within this cone is where we could see a landfall. they are saying category 2 upon landfall, but there is a chance we could see a stronger hurricane. thats what the national hurricane center is warning folks about this. this is a preliminary advisory. we could potentially see a stronger, major storm. just want to show you one of our tropical storm models that puts out...

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There is that cone of uncertainty. he could move a little bit more to the left or right. certainly over the next 12 to 24 hours, trying to get this right so that we know exactly where this storm is going. still a little bit of a landfall close to new orleans. they a tattoo or a cat three storm, no, but its going to slow down and bring incredible amounts of rain. up to 18 inches of rain. that is not good news. we are also going to see potential for tornadoes. tornadoes around the orlando area, sc...

We do not know what it is doing next. >> you are right to throw some caution in there. we have a big old cone that in is a tropical storm. we have hurricane hunter planes investigating the system, and it is 75 miles wet of the leeward islands. the biggest blow up of activity in terms of showers and thunderstorms is southwest of the center of the storm. this is a large system, though, 200 miles away from the center of the storm we feel the effects on both sides. already, we are seeing rain shower...

Bill: yeah. jamie: i would bring my raincoat. 40% of the all u.s. hurricanes hit florida. 83% of all category 4 or higher hurricanes strike florida or texas. i was thinking about them with that cone going west, now east. since 1852 the tampa area has been hit by 27 hurricanes including six during the months of august. at least where youre going they have experience. stop at home depot on the way to the hotel. bill: maybe she continues to go west. if it doesnt hit tampa it goes somewhere else. le...

There is tampa still in the cone. we will see rain and wind from the system. the worst of the storm looks like it has shifted west ward. we think the center likely right now across pensacola but look how close new orleans is. they do not need a strike of a hurricane on wednesday afternoon. we will continue to watch the situation obviously tampa a little bit better situation for them. new orleans not so much. people need to watch this carefully. isaac is threatening the national public conventi...

To flooding. so their contingency plan, they might have a plan, but you can bet its not to be right there in the way that we tend to think of the convention unfolding. lets look at the storm now. this is really a tough situation for them. we have a weak tropical storm. its only 40-mile-per-hour winds at the current time. its moving west through the caribbean. and its brushing puerto rico and the virgin islands with gusty winds but not too dangerous. they declare a state of emergency really so th...