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Of the country, jim. >> texas and louisiana, some severe weather popping up there? >> absolutely. rough morning, jim and kate. looking at heavy downpours in texas right now and you can see that it's really coming down south of san antonio. so if you're driving across texas, this is just like yesterday. the rain doesn't seem to want to stop and not only are we getting rain but seeing frequent lightning strikes with the system. you can see it advancing along i-10 to nurps and looking at the chance for thunderstorms later today. putting the map in motion, see the heavy rain working to the northea...

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Still going outbound at the moment because of how the winds are going. the river here as dropped marketley over the last 12 hours. let's bring in karen mcginnis and talk more about where irma is, where it's headed and how strong it is. >> michael, yes, there are a lot of interesting die namics as there have been for days with irma. there's a lot of interest information we can glean from this radar. first of all, irma is just over lake land, that's between tampa and orlando, 25 miles to the south of lake land. what we can see are some of the really strong bans just about over the central portio...

Towards jacksonville. they are very strong. we've got dry air intrusion, that means the system is not sitting out over the open water so it's not tapping the warm moist -- moij coming in from the gulf of mexico but it is being enhanced by being picked up, carried over the atlantic and enhancing some of those storms moving through. still the risk in this upper right quadrant for the potential for tornadoes, that is one of the most dynamic areas. specifically from about jacksonville all the way towards the cape, that's where we're looking at wind gust from 60, close to 75-mile-an-hour. tampa's i...

Check on everything else tomorrow. as far as things are concerned right now, i can tell you that it's started to feel like it's starting to pick up here in downtown tampa with the winds and rains coming around -- the rain coming around. sometimes it kind of takes your breath away. but yeah, so far -- but not as much as we thought it was going to be doing earlier in the night. michael. >> yeah, steph i know what you mean it picked up here in the last couple of minutes or so and it's howling down the river. appreciate that stephanie elam here in tampa, florida. we came to tampa early yesterday m...