Right now at right now at ten, we are tracking hurricane hermine as it nears landfall at this hour. See how the bay area is coping with all the heavy rain and flooding. Our crews are all over the bay area for you tonight as places on flooded streets and the approaching high tide. Not worth it. Dont try. Stay inside. Wait it out. Anchor high water in parts of Pinellas County floods cars and makes some rds impassable. We were going tell you about the other big conorrn f this area tonight. Announcer youre watching fox 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Good evening. Welcome tonight im mark wilson. Im kelly ring. Were of course tracking lets get over to paul for the very latest. I know some of you this morning were waking up looking at the radar saying it looks like this line is going to stay out in the water and not bother us all that much. By noon it began to move to the coastline. Then it gradually moved inland and really got going, producering heavy rain and squalls around tampa bay. Wind gusts in pinellas over 70. Strong storms into del rico and zephyrhills. Now fast moving elements mov north. For this moment most of the bay area is quiet. Not a lot going on. But theres another one of those lines kind of lurking right off the coast. It is rotating around the center of hermine which is approaching appalachia cola and way up into big bend. Well show you the rotation from that storm. This is something you really dont want to see. Do you not want to see a hurricane intense tying just before it makes landfall. Its having bigger impacts on the eastern and northern gulf. Well zoom in. For a long time there was no sign of an eye at all. But during the last couple of hours, the eye is evident. And the pressure continues to drop. We want to get this hurricane on land as soon as we can because every single second its over water it still has the opportunity to strengthen. Its still strengthening now. It will make landfall probably shortly after one, 2 00 in the morning. We continue to be on the bad side. That is the east and southeast side. These feeder bands wrap around the hurricane and this one here contains obviously you can see contains very heavy rain and it does include strong winds between 40 and 60 miles an hour. So the deal tonight is going to be to watch and kind of see how these storms eventually impact us. I think they will. But already theyre on the coast. Theyre onshore in levy county. Theyre on the coast of citrus. Theyre approaching hernando. Off offshore pasco and getting very close to Pinellas County. Citrus county will have a flood situation later tonight around high tide. 3 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. With strong southwest winds. Theyll have storm surge issues if home oe sasa and along the coastline. On top of that, theyve got to al winds. If you are watching us in spring hill, Newport Richey, anywhere in pinellas, this line is going to head your way. Theres not a lot of lightning. And this is mostly straight lined winds. But it would not be a surprise to get a quick tornado. This is one of those nights where you got to make sure you have the Weather Radio or the sky tower app available to alert you if by chance theres a Tornado Warning issued. You dont want to be in bed sleeping and have a tornado so go to bed tonight but make sure somewhere you wake up in a case of a severe thunderstorm or Tornado Warning. This continues to the southwest. The problem for later tonight and tomorrow is that models tend to indicate this line getting kind of stuck over us for a long time. So we may see persistent bands of rain coming nnly later tonight but for a time tomorrow. Winds have diminished a little speed. Clearwater, 26, gusting to 45. St. Pete, 29 gusting to 36. Gusting to 38 in sarasota. When the squall line or the bands come true, we could easily see wind gusts of 50 to 60. Thats a lot of wind. And wind gusts now around the big bend. Crystal river at 20. Cross city 21. Tallahassee sustained 24. Notice the north wind . That means the hurricane is going this way. North wind on the back side and south wind on the east side. And the wind gusts over the water now running about 45 to 55 miles an hour. Here is the latest position. This is the 10 00 advisory. 29. 4. 84. 5. Top winds are 80. Moving north northeast at 14. Pressure 984. By this time storms in South Carolina and its moving away. Even when its up here there could be trailing areas of moisture that will give us showers and thunderstorms during the day then its long gone by the weekend. The Tropical Storm warning will stay up for awhile longer. Probably at least until tomorrow morning because of strong gusty winds on the backside. Tornado watch is up until 11 00. That makes sense as well. The storm surge around tampa bay but the biggest concern is our north counties. Were watching this closely. This could be a significant situation with a southwest wind Crystal River all the way down into homo sasa could see water levels six to eight feet above average. That would cause major flooding. Obviously move away from the center and the risk of flooding begins to decrease. The times of high tide to our north. Again, in Citrus County its about your spot. The bottom line is, after midnight, the water levels start coming up as we pass low tide and start heading to high tide. Around the bay area, high tide generally 3 15 to 3 30ish. And tides will be running above normal with flooding about one to three feet. Wind gusts on friday generally about 40 to 45 from the southwest around tampa bay. And maybe 55 to 60 up in big the 11 00 advisory coming up. But i think the number one thing for tonight, of all the things you do, is Pay Attention to that band of line moving onshore. The line of storms. It will contain strong winds, isolated tornados. And well be tracking it all night long. Anchor thanks very much. For updates download the sky tower radar app from the app store. It will really help out and give you a radar in the palm of hand. Schools canceled tomorrow. Citrus, hernando, hillsborough, pasco and manatee. Some other closings that are crawling across the bottom of the screen. Across our area the wind and rain knocking out power to thousands tonight as crews rush to turn back on the lights. Here is a look at the latest numbers. Tico last check has 19,000 customers in the dark. And they join close to 22,000. Duke energy customers. And 16,000 Florida Power and light customers still waiting back on. Anchor the sun has gone down but the surf was still up on Treasure Island tonight. In Pinellas County high winds brought high waves and strong gusts blew the roof of a mobile home in sarasota even without making a direct hit theres plenty of impact from hurricane hermine all over the bay area. And there are a lot of reports of tree limbs down and minor wind damage too in the plant city, dover and valrico areas. These pictures of downed Facebook Page by viewers in plant city. Weve got live coverage from citrus, pasco counties. Josh is first where theyre expecting high storm surge this evening. Reporter right now judging by the radar app were being brushed by one of those rain bands. Thats the story in Citrus County. On and off. The big concern is the overnight and Early Morning hours when we reaching eight feet and that could cause major problems. Theres been a local state of emergency declared here in Citrus County tonight. Weve seen a few flooded roads here and there and high water in areas. Right there behind me the road is closed. Again, the big concern, thats really the overnight hours when those high tides hit. Thats when things will get really crazy. Really scary. I do want to show you a few things we saw today. Winds knocking down tree limbs in the roadway. Residents were clearing out due to rising floodwaters. Some even parking their car high on the ground. Listen one resident as he describes what it was like. Its pretty bad. Weve had it this high if not higher before with storms. But the worst weve had here was a no name storm up about four feet. County. Schools are being shut down and for those living in the low lying areas, the places that normally flood, the recommendation tonight is to evacuate. Again, the big concern, that is the storm surge that has yet to come. That is likely three, four, 5 00 in the morning. Well see that. Of course were going be staying out here all night and keeping a close eye on that storm surge on those flooded roads. Ill be updateing my twitter account throughout the night with pictures a well let you know exactly what happens. Right now it looks like at host leer in Citrus County the worst is yet to come. Back to you. Anchor we just hope that everybody heeds the warnings and just safety. If they have to get out, get out and dont question it. Josh cascio well talk to you soon. The city closed bay shore boulevard between plat street and bay to bay because of possible flooding. If you live and drive around south tampa theyre asking you to avoid bay shore. Anchor and the Sunshine Skyway bridge has been closed much of the day because of the high winds. This is a live look from our fdot and the florida Highway Patrol says theyve had winds averaging 46 miles an hour. Gusting to 56 throughout much of the day into the night. So you are guy have to use other routes. Halfway there so to speak. Could be a long night for some folks in the bay area. Residents in one pasco county neighborhood are going to keep an eye on flood creep ever so close to their homes. Were live with a look at the conditions in pasco and what one county commissioner is hoping to do to try to help them. Its the final days of the ford freedom sales event. And the deals just got better. 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As hurricane hermine churned off the coast, it didnt take long for strong storms to lead to flooding in portions of Pinellas County. In tarpon springs, several roads bracken with dead cars. Ended up getting water inside my engine and my car wouldnt start. I had to push it over. Not worth it. Dont try. Stay inside. Wait it out. Reporter in largo and clearwater, 11 inches of rain in 24 hours in some parts literally backed up Water Treatment systems. In some cases in largo, raw sewage gushed from crews worked to street as much water as possible. That is raw sewage. You dont want to go near it. You dont want to have kids playing in it. Just stay away from that completely. Reporter meanwhile on Clearwater Beach people should have been staying away from the water but we found several people taking a major risk and swimming in the pounding waves. For those that kept a safe distance though it was a chance to watch mother natures power. A lot of waves, a lot of really nothing bad. Reporter because of those sewer system problems, officials are asking people to conserve water in clearwater and largo. So dont takes a many showers. Also watch how many laundry loads you do as well theyre saying to help alleviate some of that stress on the system. Live in Clearwater Beach, evan lambert, fox 13 news. Thank you very much. Its so amazing. Take us back a week ago. Were talking about the storm that wouldnt leave. Tonight and you have this perfectly formed hurricane thats involved much of the southeast. Paul said we have to watch it. We led the newscast for a week over literally a little spin. And people saying what are you doing . This is ridiculous. And we did it for a week straight. This is why. Once it becomes a depression in the gulf, all bets are off. Now we have an intensifying hurricane approaching the panhandle and weve got damage in the bay area. Today very active indeed. You talk about a bad day. Well put this into motion today on the serrato beach cam. Just multiple band of very heavy rain and late in the afternoon we had this one squall line go by. That produced winds up to 70 in pinellas. Confirmed 62 in downtown st. Pete. Kind of bent over some street signs. There you go. Just a windy, wet, wild day today. Its not when you get a big hurricane and hurricane intensifying to your northwest and you are on the east side, you are going to have impacts because, you know, the hurricane spins and you get these feeder bands that kind of rotate around the center. Everything is always tilted at least usually to the righthand side. And were kind of in the bad spot. We said this a number of times going back a week. Maybe on the east side not good. For the most part all we had was off and on rain. Are those lines. When they go by, thats when things really get bad. That happened a couple of times today and will probably happen one more time tonight at least. So heres the center. You can see a developing eye. Its getting awfully close to land. As i said at the top of the ten, we want to get this thing on land as soon as we can. Every second its over water is another second that it can intensify. These colors are not radar temperatures of the clouds. And the red and the purple are cold cloud tops indicating the higher thunderstorms and, in this case, the more severe thunderstorms. And they kind of match that squall line approaching. So this line i moving our way. At the same time, the individual rain moving about 45 miles an hour to the northeast. At the same time, the line is southeast. The problem with this line is a lot of the highresolution models eventually move it our way then kind of drape it over the peninsula for a long time. For at least three to six hours and that could bring with it more significant rain and strong and gusty winds. So that is the key to the forecast for tonight is the positioning of this line after midnight biel be on it well be on it all night long tracking it. You wont miss a thing. Now youve got the storm up by josh cascio did his live report up in Citrus County with the rain beginning. His weather goes downhill. Weather in coastal citrus goes downhill. Its approaching hernando now west of pasco. Then west of pinellas. Weve had bands, a quick shower move through the bay area. Watch it here. Whip by and south tampa it got windy and gusty for five minutes. That went from here to pasco and it was gone. Thats how fast this stuff is moving. Can see pretty much the eye well over 200 miles away and its going through all of these squalls. You talk about a powerful radar. Were doing it up here and we can see way up in the big bend from tallahassee to apalachicola. I mean, that is a classic radar presentation of a developing and intensifying hurricane as it moves well to our north and northwest. So well continue to track that. Continue to be gusty. 45 clearwater. Receive the st. Pete. Gusting to 32 in tampa. Obviously lower speeds as you move inland. Tropical storm warning is in yellow and includes all of our viewing area. The stats on hermine, 29. 4, 84. 5, rapidly moving northeast. Whats kind of interesting is take a look at this. Talk about forecasting issues this weekend . I mean, that is the ultimate spet models. Theyre dealing with this up in the northeast labor day weekend. Well try to figure that out in the days ahead. Theres the tornado watch up. Again, one more look at the tides. The critical high tide for Citrus County is about 3 30 to 545 in the morning and around the bay area 3 30 and tides running about two to four feet above normal. So rest of tonight. There will be more bands of rain some thunderstorms and obviously in the band stronger winds. We stay near 80. Tomorrow, still no picnic. Breezy with occasional rain and storms and not raining all the way. Really is going to depend where the line is. There will be sunshine i think away from the line. 84. We slowly improve on saturday but still were in the soup. Variably cloudy. Showers and thundershowers. We finally say goodbye to hermine over the weekend. To the beach. With temperatures in the low 90s and the rain chances at about 30 percent. A lot going on. Another update coming up at 10 50 p. M. See you then. Take a break. We appreciate it. Coming up next were going to lock at whats going on in the panel handle. Hurricane hermine making landfall in a couple of hours. Were going to have a live report from there coming up im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Theres a race going on right now. The worlds clean energy super powers either going to be germany, china, or us. And im going to make sure its us. From 500 million solar panels installed by the end of my first term, to precision manufacturing. We can do this, millions of jobs right here in america. Now at 10 26 hurricane hermine making landfall right now in the panhandle. Fox is live in conditions, how are they . Reporter we are seeing the wind and the rain from hurricane hermine. Still overwater but expected to make landfall here in the northeast part of floridas gulf coast in just a few hours. We are dealing with some Power Outages already in the area. About a mile away we can tell you that a hotel there did lose power. Even here indowntown, a block power for a few minutes and then everything came back on. As expected, businesses here in the downtown area did close their doors early. Accept for one restaurant. There was one restaurant and you can see them right down over there that are still open. And people are making their way in and out of there. Now one of the major issues here as this storm makes landfall is going to be the life threatening surge and f