WINDS WILL ROLL IN SHOULD A
TORNADO HIT YOUR HOUSE I JUST
WANT TO TALK ABOUT RIGHT HERE
THAT'S THE AREA OF ROTATION,
THE WAY THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
ORIENTED THIS IS LIGHT RAIN
HERE IS AN UPDATE COMING
THROUGH HERE IS VERY HEAVY RAIN
THE CIRCULATION IS RIGHT THERE
IN THE BACK END THAT'S THE PART
WHERE THE TORNADO POSSIBLY
COULD BE THAT IS THE STRONGEST
AREA WE HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR
THE OTHER STORM THAT PROMPTED
THE TORNADO WARNING IT IS RIGHT
HERE MOVED ON OUT IN TO THE
EVERGLADES, I EXPECT THEM TO
EXPIRE THAT TORNADO WARNING OR
CANCEL IT WE'RE ASKING THE
NATIONAL WEATHER THE HURRICANE
CENTER DOES THE HURRICANE
WATCHES AND WARNINGS THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOES
THE TORNADO WARNINGS AND THE
NATIONAL STORM PREDICTION
CENTER DOES THE TORNADO WATCHES
WE'RE UNDER A TORNADO WATCH BUT
SEEING NOW TORNADO WARNINGS
HERE.
YOU HAVE QUITE A LOT TO
KEEP UP ON THE.
CAN YOU TELL US HOW COMMON IT
IS TO HAVE THOSE TORNADOES
DURING A HURRICANE?
IT IS FAIRLY COMMON BECAUSE
WE GET TORNADOES IN STRONG WIND
FIELDS AND UNSTABLE AIR WHEN WE
HAVE THUNDERSTORMS WHEN THEY
GET CLOSE THE LAND SLOWS DOWN
THE WIND IT IS A LITTLE
DIFFERENT DIRECTION THE WIND
ABOVE THE GROUND.
A NEW TORNADO WARNING COMING
OUT THIS MIGHT BE THE STORM WE
WERE TALKING ABOUT NEW A NEW
TORNADO WARNING FOR THIS STORM
THIS IS THE STORM WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT AND THIS TORNADO WARNING
COVERS BASICALLY PORT
EVERGLADES, FORT LAUDERDALE
DOWNTOWN, AND IF THIS STORM
FOLLOWS WITH THE LAST STORM'S
TRACKS RELATIVELY SPEAKING IT
IS GOING TO GO BASICALLY IN
THAT GENERAL DIRECTION SO IF
THE RAIN FALLS HEAVY IN YOUR
FORT LAUDERDALE, AS FAR AS
NORTH COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD IF
THE RAIN GETS HEAVY I WOULD GET
INTO A CENTER ROOM THERE AND
LET THIS THING PASS.
BUT THE DECEPTIVE THING IS AS
SOON AS THE RAIN ENDS, IF THERE
IS A TORNADO THAT'S WHERE THE
TORNADO IS SO YOU CAN'T SAY THE
RAIN ENDED LET'S GO OUT AND
LOOK AT IT BECAUSE POTENTIALLY
THERE IS THE TORNADO.
THAT AREA YOU GET WITH ONE OF
THE THINGS THAT THE LOT TO DEAL
WITH.
HOW MANY MORE SHOULD WE
ANTICIPATE? LET'S SEE -- YOU
CAN SEE THEY ARE LINING UP IN
AN ARC WITH THE ROTATION AROUND
IRMA.
THERE IS ONE POTENTIAL TORNADIC
STORM WAY OUT THERE.
A PRETTY GOOD BREAK AFTER THAT
ONE BUT THEN WE GOT THIS ONE
NEAR FORT LAUDERDALE AND THE
NEXT ONE OVER THE EVERGLADES
AND MORE TORNADOES -- TORNADO
WARNINGS AND SOUTHERN PALM
BEACH COUNTY.
THE ONE WE ARE DEALING WITH NOW
IS THE ONE, NOT SURE -- THERE
HAS BEEN AN INCREASE IN
LIGHTNING WHICH SOMETIMES IS AN
INDICATION OF AN
INTENSIFICATION OF THE STORM.
I WILL GO HERE -- IT IS MOVING
QUICKLY.
YOU GET A LINE OF HOW IT IS
MOVING.
ON THE RIGHT AND SIDE OF
YOUR SCREEN LIVE PICTURES FROM
FORT LAUDERDALE AND YOU CAN SEE
THE DARKNESS.
IT LOOKS LIKE NIGHTTIME HAS
DESCENDED.
IT'S 7:00 IN THE TOP OF THE
HOUR.
WE ARE GETTING HOURLY UPDATES
ON THE POSITION OF IRMA.
AS WE LOOK AT THIS MOVING
THROUGH BROWARD COUNTY IS THERE
ANYTHING YOU CAN SEE?
THE TOP OF THE HOUR UPDATE
HAS CATEGORY 3. FIVE MILES AN
HOUR INCREASED WITH BRING IT TO
CATEGORY 4.
THE PRESSURE HASN'T CHANGED
MUCH.
SOUTHEAST OF KEY LARGO THEY
REPORTED WIND GUSTS OF THE SIX
MILES AN HOUR.
MARATHON HAS SUSTAINED WINDS OF
GUS AT 62.
NO CHANGES OTHER THAN THAT.
THE STORM LOOKS LIKE IT IS
MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS
THE LAST UPDATE.
WE HAVE HANKS CAMERA BACKUP
-- WE SHOULD CLARIFY -- IT
YOU HEAR THESE SIRENS IN THE
BACKGROUND, THIS IS THE NOISE
GOING OFF IN WEATHER CONTROL
WHERE THEY ARE WORKING TO
NOTIFY THEM OF TORNADOES.
IS THAT A TORNADO WATCH?
NEW IT IS A TORNADO WARNING --
IT'S AN URGENT THE TUITION WE
NEED TO WORK QUICKLY.
THERE IS A NEW TORNADO
WARNING IN SOUTH MIAMI-DADE.
A TORNADO IN THIS AREA -- LET
ME STOP IT HERE.
RIGHT HERE.
MOVING TO THE WEST.
FOLKS IN HOMESTEAD AND FLORIDA
CITY ARE UNDER THE GUN WITH
THIS SITUATION.
THIS STORM IS RACING TO THE
WEST.
HANK, WE HAVE YOUR PICTURE
-- WE SEE THE DARK SKIES AND
THE TREES BLOWING IN THE HEAVY
SURF.
WHAT ARE YOU EXPERIENCING?
WHAT WE JUST SAW -- YOU CAN
SEE IT DISAPPEARING UNDER THE
TREES BLOWING STRAIGHT WEST.
IT APPEARS TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF
THOSE TORNADIC CLOUD
FORMATIONS.
IT HAD NOT GONE DOWN TOWARD THE
GROUND BUT IT WAS TRUCK --
TRYING TO WORK ITS WAY DOWN
TOWARD THE GROUND.
IT IS OBSCURED BY THE BUILDING
IN FRONT OF THIS SHOT.
WE DID SEE SOMETHING THAT
LOOKED SUSPICIOUS, I WILL PUT
IT THAT WAY.
AGAIN, YOU HAVE THIS DARK AREA
FLOWING THROUGH DIRECTLY WEST
OFF THE WATER.
WE ARE AT THE TIP OF
COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD.
A BLOCK TO THE SOUTH.
THE OTHER AREA WAS SPOTTED AS A
TORNADO AREA.
A LOT OF LIGHTNING IN THE
AREA.
WE WILL MOVE BACK RIGHT NOW.
[SIRENS] IS THAT ANOTHER
TORNADO WARNING OR IS THAT MY
PHONE?
[LAUGHTER]
IF IT IS YOU NEED TO CHANGE
YOUR RINGER.
WE ARE A LITTLE JUMPY OUT
HERE.
LET'S GO BACK INSIDE.
ARE YOU OKAY?
WE ARE FINE.
WE GOT TANGLED UP AND WE ARE
WALKING AROUND WITH A LIVE
UNIT.
HE IS HAVING TO CARRY THAT AND
I'M TRYING TO HOLD THE PHONE
AND KEEP IT OUT OF THE WATER.
LET'S LOOK TO THE NORTH
TOWARD PALM BEACH.
NOTHING WE CAN REALLY SEE OTHER
THAN THE CONDOS OBSCURED.
IT IS A LITTLE MORE ANGRY IN
THE WATER IN THE LAST TIME WE
TALKED.
I HAVE TO THROW THIS OUT THERE
-- A WHILE AGO I WALKED OUTSIDE
-- THESE WEATHER SITUATIONS
HAPPEN WHEN THE COLD MEETS THE
WARM.
I FELT A COOL BREEZE FOR AN
INSTANT.
IT WAS A STRANGE PHENOMENON.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME
FROM.
THERE IS NO AIR-CONDITIONING
ON.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT HAS
ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS BUT IT
WAS A STRANGE THING. THAT IS
INTERESTING, HANK, BECAUSE
BIANCA OUTSIDE DESCRIBED THAT
SAME THING COMING THROUGH.
LET'S CHECK AND ONE MORE
TIME WITH CRAIG.
WHAT YOU THINK?
THIS IS A LITTLE FURTHER
SOUTH.
THE OTHER TRACK WITHIN THIS
GENERAL AREA HERE -- THIS ONE
IS A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH IN
THIS GENERAL AREA HERE.
FOLKS FARTHER SOUTH THAN WHAT
WE SAW BEFORE -- FORT
LAUDERDALE --
EAST OF 95 BUT STILL NORTH
OF I AND FIVE.
-- NORTH OF 595.
THANK YOU.
WE NEED THAT DETAIL.
A NEW TORNADO WARNING FOR
THE LOWERCASE -- THAT INCLUDES
THE BRIDGE AS WELL AS -- LET ME
CHECK -- PIGEON KID.
MOVING WEST AT 70 MILES AN
HOUR.
IT YOU ARE HIT BY ONE OF
THESE THERE IS VERY LITTLE
MORNING.
THANKFULLY, THEY ARE NOT BIG --
THEY ARE SMALL -- THE WIND
WOULD BE IN THE 110-130 MILE AN
HOUR RANGE.
WE HAVE A VIDEO OF THIS
WEATHER SYSTEM WE'VE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT.
THIS WAS SHOT BY TERRY -- YOU
CAN SEE THE EMPTY STREET WITH
THE WIND BLOWING.
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS IS.
THAT'S THE UPDRAFT REGION.
YOU CAN SEE THE TORNADO COMING
OUT OF THE CLOUDS TRYING TO
COME DOWN.
THE VISIBLE PART THAT COMES
DOWN -- THE PARK THAT LIKE A
TWO OR HOSE IS THE -- A TUBE OR
HOSE IS THE CONFRONTATION --
THE CONDENSATION FUNNEL.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COME ALL THE
WAY TO THE GROUND.
IT COULD DO DAMAGE ON THE
GROUND EVEN THOUGH IT LOOKS
LIKE THE FINAL IS NOT TOUCHING
THE GROUND.
I'M TRYING TO GET A SENSE OF
WHERE THE CAMERA IS POSITIONED.
IS THIS HOLLYWOOD BEACH?
FORT LAUDERDALE LOOKING
NORTH.
IT WAS PROBABLY SHOT FROM SOUTH
WHERE THE STORM SYSTEM IS
COMING IN.
THAT IS A NEW PERSPECTIVE.
YOU REALLY GET A CLEAR IDEA.
IF YOU WERE LISTENING TO US AND
NOT ABLE TO SEE THE VIDEO, IT'S
A MENACING LOOKING SYSTEM WITH
A TORNADO AND THE SPOUT COMING
OUT OF THE BOTTOM SIGNIFYING
THAT THIS IS A TORNADO.
HERE WE ARE -- HOURS AWAY
FROM THIS SYSTEM -- IRMA --
BEGINNING TO WILL SHOW ITSELF
IN OUR AREA.
IS THIS SOMETHING WE SHOULD
EXPECT TO SEE?
THIS TORNADIC ACTIVITY BETWEEN
NOW AND TOMORROW MORNING?
IS A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY.
LET ME ZOOM OUT HERE -- WE WILL
TOUCH ON THIS OTHER TORNADO
WARNING FOR THE TO THE SOUTH.
HERE WE GO.
IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY, THESE
LITTLE GUYS UP HERE -- THEY ARE
THUNDERSTORMS ALL IN A ROW.
IF THEY ROTATE WE CALL THEM
DISCRETE SUPER CELLS BECAUSE
THEY ARE SMALL AND SEPARATE.
THEY COULD CONTAIN A TORNADO.
THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE SEEN
STRONGER.
THIS ONE OVER BROWARD RIGHT NOW
-- THIS OTHER ONE IS OFFSHORE
COMING IN, TOO.
I THINK IF YOU LOGICALLY
THINK ABOUT IT, THE LAST ONE
WAS FURTHER SOUTH THAN THE ONE
BEFORE IT.
SO THE NEXT ONE WILL BE FARTHER
SOUTH THAN THAT.
THERE IS A GOOD LINE OF
ACTIVITY COMING IN.
LET ME MOVE IN SO YOU GET A
SENSE OF THE MOTION.
THIS IS THE LAST 15 MINUTES.
THERE IS THE HOMESTEAD TORNADO
WARNING MOVING TO THE WEST.
ANY OF THESE CELLS ALONG HERE
EXHIBITING THIS PATTERN OF
WHERE THE RED DIP TO THE SOUTH,
THEY COULD ALSO PRODUCE
TORNADOES.
THE MORE DISCRETE ONES ARE THE
ONES WE ARE WATCHING.
SO, BROWARD COUNTY IS BEING
AFFECTED.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IS AFFECTED
BY THIS.
YOU CAN SEE IN THE BOX THAT
TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 7:30.
WE HAVE 20 MINUTES OF THIS.
AS IRMA CLOSER AND CLOSER WE
SHOULD SEE MORE OF THIS
TORNADIC ACTIVITY.
YES.
A HELPFUL TIP FOR A LOT OF
PEOPLE THAT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO
SEE OUT THE WINDOW -- WE HAVE A
LOT OF RAIN AND A TORNADO COULD
BEHIND THE BAND OF RAIN.
GOOD POINT.
AS CRAIG SAID IF YOU ARE IN THE
AREA NORTH OF 595 FOR THE
SYSTEM IS MOVING IN, YOU MAY
WANT TO GET TO AN INTERIOR
ROOM.
GET YOURSELF AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND RIDE THIS OUT.
THE TORNADO WARNING IS IN
EFFECT FOR ANOTHER 20 MINUTES
OR SO.
DON'T GET AWAY FROM THE
WINDOWS SINCE WE ARE INSIDE BUT
GET AWAY FROM THE WALLS.
IS THIS A LIVE PICTURE?
WE SAW EARLIER FROM HANK THE
PERSPECTIVE -- THE VIEW OF THIS
WEATHER SYSTEM WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT COMING IN.
THERE IT IS.
THIS IS THE ONE FROM HANK AT
THE BEGINNING AND ALSO THE ONE
FROM FORT LAUDERDALE.
RIGHT NOW YOU ARE LOOKING AT
THE ONE FROM LAUDERDALE BY THE
-- BY THE SEA.
CRAIG DESCRIBED HOW THIS WORKS.
WHEN YOU GET THIS PERSPECTIVE,
SEEING IT LOOMING BENEATH THE
DARK CLOUDS AND MOVING IN --
THERE IS THE VIDEO SHOT FROM A
ONE -- YOU GET A SENSE -- IT
DOESN'T GET MORE CLEAR THAN
THAT -- WHAT THIS STORM IS
DOING.
YOU REALLY CAN'T.
THE IDEA OF THIS BEING THE
NORMAL FOR THE NEXT 12-24 HOURS
IS A LITTLE NERVE-RACKING THE
PEOPLE HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
TAKE A LOOK -- BE AWARE OF WHAT
IS GOING ON AND BE SAFE AND
SMART.
WE ARE PICKING UP A STRONG
ROTATION SIGNATURE HERE -- THIS
IS WHAT WE CALL THE DOPPLER
MODE -- IT IS TELLING ME THAT
THERE IS WIND BLOWING STRONGLY
THAT WAY -- THEN, WE IN FOR
ROTATION IN THE MIDDLE -- THAT
IS HOW WE FIND TORNADOES WITH
DOPPLER RADAR.
ROOSEVELT GARDENS ALONG 95.
THE ONLY CONCERN IS THAT I'M
BEHIND THE CURVE BECAUSE THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING SO QUICKLY.
BASICALLY A LINE FROM ROCK
ISLAND THROUGH LAUDERDALE LAKES
AND FROM FORT LAUDERDALE TO
PLANTATION IN SUNRISE -- THAT'S
THE AREA THAT THIS CELL WILL
SWEEP AS IT GOES WAS.
GET AWAY FROM THE EXTERIOR
WALLS OF YOUR HOUSE IF YOU ARE
IN THE PAST.
THE PATH INCLUDES SUNRISE
PLANTATION AND ROOSEVELT
GARDENS AND SOUTHERN TAMARACK
AND LAUDERDALE LAKE AND ROCK
ISLAND.
THIS IS IMPORTANT
INFORMATION.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HOW THEY
TRAVEL?
THEY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE IN THE
WATER COMING IN ONE.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HOW THEY
TRAVEL?
TO THEY DECREASE OR INCREASE?
HOW DO THEY DETERMINE THE AREA
ABOUT WHO IS UNDER THE MORNING?
IN THIS CASE WHEN THEY ARE
LANDFALL TORNADOES, THEY CAN
FORM OVER THE WATER.
SOMETIMES THEY INTENSIFY OVER
LAND BECAUSE THERE IS FRICTION
-- THE AIR IS BLOWING OVER THE
WATER AND THERE'S NOT MUCH
RESISTANCE EXCEPT FOR THE WAY.
ONCE YOU COMING CLOSER YOU GET
STRONGER WIND SHIFTS OR CHANGES
THE HEIGHT -- NEAR THE GROUND
IT IS BLOWING FROM THE EAST AT
25 AND JUST ABOUT THE GROUND IT
IS EAST/SITE WE -- SOUTHEAST --
THIS IS LIKE TURN IN THE WIND
RESULTS IN SPINNING OF THE
ATMOSPHERE.
EVERYBODY SAID THERE IS A
CONFIRMED LARGE TORNADO ON THE
GROUND IN WATER HILL.
-- LAUDERHILL PLANTATION.
THIS STORM THAT WE TALKED ABOUT
-- THERE IS LAUDERHILL.
THIS IS LIKELY WHERE THE
TORNADO WAS.
I SAY WAS BECAUSE THE STORM IS
MOVING SO FAST -- IT IS GOING
IN THAT DIRECTION.
IF YOU ARE IN LAUDERHILL
PLANTATION, SUNRISE, GET INTO
THE INTERIOR RIGHT NOW.
TAKE A DEEP BREATH.
THIS IS TOUGH TO WATCH.
WE ARE LOOKING AT THE RADAR --
THIS IS AFFECTING PEOPLE'S
LIVES.
THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
IT IS AFFECTING PEOPLE.
IT IS HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
YES, PEOPLE THAT WE KNOW AND
LOVE -- FAMILY MEMBERS AND
FRIENDS -- WE ARE GOING THROUGH
THIS TOGETHER.
THE GOOD NEWS IS, WE GET THE
INFORMATION BEFORE YOU GET
THERE IN MOST CASES.
CRAIG IS WATCHING ALL OF THIS
FOR US AND MONITORING IT FOR
US.
CRAIG, I WONDER IF YOU CAN TALK
ABOUT THE KINDS OF STRUCTURES
ARE MOST VULNERABLE WHEN A
SYSTEM LIKE THIS MOVES THROUGH.
TYPICALLY, MOBILE HOMES.
IN A HURRICANE YOU EVACUATE
MOBILE HOMES.
I HATE TO SAY IT THIS WAY BUT
IF WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A
TORNADO OUTBREAK, THINK
GOODNESS WE ARE AS PREPARED AS
WE CAN BE.
THERE YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE WOULD
INFER AS THE HOOK ECHO -- THE
ROTATION OF THE TORNADO PULLING
RAIN FROM THE THUNDERSTORM AND
WRAPPING ITSELF AROUND.
WE DON'T WANT TO SEE DEBRIS --
THE RADAR CAN PICK THINGS UP
FROM THE GROUND AND THAT SHOWS
UP ALSO.
THAT'S WHY EVERYONE IS
SUPPOSED TO BE EVACUATED FROM
THESE AREAS.
THEY NOT ALL OF THE AREAS BUT
DEFINITELY SHELTERED IN PLACE
SHUTTERS UP AND MOVING TO THE
INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE OR
STRUCTURE.
YES, THAT'S WHY WE WANT
EVERYONE TO BE INSIDE LATE IN
THE DAY SITTING TIGHT.
EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE NOT
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS, IT'S
BETTER TO BE INSIDE WHAT CAN
IT DO TO A CAR DRIVING DOWN THE
ROAD?
COULD FLIP IT OVER.
HOPEFULLY NO ONE IS OUT THERE.