Remnants Of Isaias: This will be the final update on Isaias.
The remnants of Isaias are moving inland and the center is currently located over Alabama. Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida at about 8:30 pm CDT last night as a 105 mph hurricane. Isaias dealt a serious blow on the western Florida Panhandle and across southern Alabama with multiple credible reports of wind gusts of over 100 mph when it made landfall. These include a 114 mph wind gust in Milton, a 92 mph wind gust at Pensacola Regional, a 102 mph wind gust at Pensacola City Hall. This was definitely a Category 2 to Category 3 hurricane hit. Additionally, there are nearly 900,000 power outages across the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and western Georgia.
For the rest of this weekend, the remnants of Isaias are expected to produce rain and the threat for tornadoes across the southeastern United States into the Mid-Atlantic states.
The threat for tornadoes are expected this afternoon into tonight across much of South Carolina into eastern Georgia. This threat for tornadoes will shift northward into eastern North Carolina, southeastern Virginia and across parts of the Delmarva.
Rain is expected throughout this weekend across much of the East Coast of the United States with rain totals expected to be in the range of 1 to 3 inches.