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Look at this wind field. tropical storm force winds extending out 175 miles. a strong system. so without a doubt, we have some time to go with this. we still need to be careful. flow around this system like this. youll still have on shore flow on some of the beaches and the panhandle. the water will be slow to come down. some places more water on the way. think about how large this system is. we have tropical storm warnings on the atlantic portion of this storm from georgia and into the carolina...

Youre a hurricane spinto georg, the flow will provide on shore flow. weve been talking about this storm surge. you get the on shore flow continuing, you can still push water in. the places that have high water will continue to rise in someer. ill look at some of the data. one thing we have been trying to communicate is the storm surge isnt just coastal. you can see some of your barrier ie labslands here. follow it up for miles and miles. look alt tt the rises on these rivers. its inland. were se...

>> it is. bill: how did you make out after florence? >> the way the storm came in, we took kind of the eyewall coming in and we actually fared pretty well. we had minimal roof damage, shingles, gutters, that type of thing. the biggest impact, we had an unusual backside storm on shore flow that caused a surge after the eyewall passed, which is unusual, normally we get the surge on the incoming wall. got about six feet there, covered most of the island. low tide came out and took it out and came b...

Hours ago and the storm has moved 150 miles is all in the last 30 hours inincredibly slow moving storm. big gauges. here is our concern rivers at major flooding. thats the purple, moderate flooding is the red. take a look at what happens major flooding going on down across south carolina, north carolina, in across parts of virginia. the rain thats going to fall. going to down all the rivers and seeing a lot of rivers well above their record levels that they have ever seen and likely stay that wa...

High tide with that persistent easterly wind with this stationary tropical cyclone that continues to pile up that water and the more that falls upstream, it just cant go anywhere with that on shore flow blocking it and thats just exacerbating the flooding situation up in new bern and now developing here in the wilmington area with this prolific rainfall continuing. >> i want to show our viewers one of kind of the before and after shots that youve posted. when i show them, its -- this is union po...

Ripping down the street and thats why its so dangerous in areas like new bern as well and this rain just continues to fall as we said earlier, theres nothing more dangerous than a stalling out tropical cyclone as we saw last year with storms like harvey, once these storms stall out, these rain bands just hammer the same areas over and over again and you have on shore flow as well piling the water in these inlets and all that river flooding, flash flooding, storm surge and every high tide cycle i...

Rick leventhal in wilmington beach california. we are back with rick reichmuth with the fox news weather center in new york with where florence is and where its going. >> good evening, bret. just right there now, its moving here getting close to the south carolina border. winds down to 70 miles per hour, the strongest sustained winds, gusting to 85. we still see this on the shore flow, not going down towards myrtle beach, off storm flow, that storm surge pushing the way to the beach, all the ene...

Falls. here is the other issue that can happen in these situations. the longer you have those winds, the further inland that surge can actually move into the inland basically. so you can have storm surge a mile inland where you keep those hurricane force winds open. places well inland could still see storm surge from this. >> so pick a spot. lets take wilmington. how long will they be suffering in terms of hurricane force winds and in terms of just the pounding rain? >> yeah. you look at it over...

Damage. and even further east surprisingly, too, including the marathon area. isla but the brunt of the wind came in at big piney key where they had 130 to 150 miles per hour. you can see the storm surge damage, you can see debris. docks and homes all over the homes. a storm surge that was several feet deep. and we wenld through summerland key. we found a man that rode out the storm in his home, and he was inside the eye of that hurricane. the backside of the winds came through at 150 miles per ...

Gow from having a tee-shirt on to putting a jacket on t. rain bands are making their way out of the tampa bay area. hopefully, you guys will be in the clear pretty soon. we will check in on that. darah dallof, thank you so much. appreciate it. for the latest on irmas track. we want to go to meteorologist bill karins who has been standing by. bill. >> good morning the storm is finally winding itself down. it is still a huge tropical storm. that will be the legacy of the storm. today we have life-...