Hurricane Isaias Strengthens to Category 3 Before Friday Night Landfall
Forecasters say warm water and favorable winds could push Isaias to Category 3 while residents along Florida’s coast prepare for flooding and power outages.
- Hurricane Isaias strengthened into a major Category 3 storm Friday morning with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, heading toward the Florida Panhandle for a late Friday landfall between Pensacola and Destin.
- Earlier this week, the National Hurricane Center predicted wind shear would weaken Isaias to Category 1 status, but the storm intensified and shifted east toward Navarre, Florida instead.
- The Alabama Emergency Management Agency warns that storm surges could reach six to nine feet along the coast, with four to six feet in Mobile Bay, alongside heavy rainfall and damaging winds.
- Alabama Governor Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency for 40 counties on Wednesday and ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal visitors; Attorney General Steve Marshall activated price-gouging laws with fines up to $1,000.
- Moving north into Tennessee by Saturday, the storm approaches the near-anniversary of Hurricane Michael, which devastated Panama City Beach on October 10, 2018; Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson said locals remain acutely aware of the potential for catastrophic damage.
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Hurricane Isaias strengthens into Category 3 storm ahead of landfall • Oklahoma Voice
Hurricane Isaias strengthened into a Category 3 storm Friday morning hours before an expected landfall somewhere in the Florida panhandle. The storm system had sustained winds of about 120 mph and was 245 miles south of Pensacola mid-Friday morning moving north at 15 mph. It is moving largely along the same track as before but […]
Hurricane Isaias, which formed in the Atlantic Ocean, has reached the third category on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the US National Hurricane Watch Center reported. The speed of wind gusts within the hurricane is 54 m/s and is moving northeast at a speed of 26 km/h, TASS reported referring to the US National Hurricane Watch Center. Isaias is currently located 310 km south of the American city of Pencasola in Florida. Earlier, the US Department of …
Hurricane Isaias Strengthens to Category 3 With 120 MPH Winds
نُشر هذا المقال أولاً عبر Cedarnews.net. لمتابعة المزيد من الأخبار والتقارير الحصرية، زورونا على موقعنا. Hurricane Isaias strengthened into a major Category 3 storm Friday morning, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, the National Hurricane Center announced. In its 7:20 a.m. CDT update on October 9, the center said an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft confirmed the strengthening. Isaias was approximately 240 miles south of Pensacol…
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The BladeIsaias closes in on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane
Isaias has strengthened into a powerful Category 3 hurricane as it surges toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center says Isaias’ maximum sustained winds have increased to 120 mph. That classifies it as a major hurricane. The first…
In the most recent newsletter the system was located about 100 miles from Pensacola and is expected to cause cyclonic swell of at least 9 feet.
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