Hurricane Debby: Latest maps, models and paths (2024)

AND I’M SANIKA DANGE. WE’VE GOT TEAM COVERAGE FOR YOU THIS MORNING. DEBBIE IS EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL IN THE BIG BEND REGION VERY SOON. YES. AND WE HAVE A TEAM OF COVERAGE THIS MORNING TO HELP YOU MONITOR THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. WE’VE GOT FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST KELLIANNE KLASS AND ERIC BURRIS HERE MONITORING THE CONDITIONS. IT’S GOING TO GET ACTIVE SOON. I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE IT’S ALREADY BEEN ACTIVE RIGHT. BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ACTIVE I FEEL LIKE THAT CAN MEAN SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS FOR SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. WE’VE BEEN WATCHING RAIN ALL MORNING LONG. WE’VE HAD A COUPLE OF TORNADO WARNINGS ALREADY. WE’RE NOT DONE WITH THAT YET. ERIC. EVEN THOUGH DEBBIE MADE LANDFALL OFFICIALLY. THAT’S RIGHT. MADE LANDFALL JUST A COUPLE OF MOMENTS AGO. AND NOT FAR FROM THE ONLY STORM THAT MADE LANDFALL LAST YEAR. STEINHATCHEE, FLORIDA. SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT. IT MADE LANDFALL AS A HURRICANE WITH WINDS OF 80MPH. THIS IS THE FIRST STORM SINCE A DAHLIA WHEN A DAHLIA MADE LANDFALL AS A CAT FOUR HURRICANE. RIGHT NOW, AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT OUR FIRST WARNING RADAR, WE CAN SEE THAT CENTER OF CIRCULATION, THAT EYE, THE CENTER OF DEBBY, NOW MAKING LANDFALL, HAD MADE LANDFALL RATHER WORKING ACROSS PARTS OF THE BIG BEND. HERE. LOCALLY, WE HAVE SOME HEAVIER RAINFALL OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW. I WOULD SAY FROM I-4 SOUTH AND EAST. NOT QUITE HEAVY, DEFINITELY STEADY, AND AT TIMES A LITTLE BIT HEAVY. BUT REALLY YOU’RE BLINDING. DOWNPOURS ARE GOING TO BE FROM POLK CITY OVER TOWARDS CLERMONT, UP INTO LEESBURG, SORRENTO, ALTOONA WORKING ACROSS I-4 AND WILL EVENTUALLY WORK INTO I 95 FOR MARION COUNTY. ANOTHER BATCH OF HEAVIER RAINFALL NOW BEGINNING TO MAKE ITS WAY IN FROM THE WEST. AND THEN THERE’S THIS LINE OF RAINFALL APPROACHING I-75 IN SUMTER COUNTY. AND WATCHING THESE IN PARTICULAR, THEY MAY HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF ROTATION WITH IT, BUT RIGHT NOW I’M NOT SEEING A WHOLE LOT OF ROTATION. THEN BEHIND THAT, WE STILL HAVE SOME FEEDER BANDS TRYING TO WORK ON IN. SO HERE’S THE LATEST TRACK FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER. NOW THAT IT MADE LANDFALL, IT WILL WEAKEN TO A TROPICAL STORM THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY AND CONTINUE ITS TREK ACROSS GEORGIA OFF THE COAST OF GEORGIA AND OFF THE COAST OF THE CAROLINAS. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. BUT BACK HERE AT HOME, RIGHT NOW, ERIC, WE’RE DEALING WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. YEAH. THAT’S RIGHT. SO FOR THAT TODAY, WE ARE UNDER A TORNADO. WATCH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. AND I WANT TO SHOW YOU KIND OF THE ZEROING IN THE AREAS WE THINK I THINK THAT AS THE STORM MAKES LANDFALL, IT MAINLY WILL BE MARION FLAGLER NORTHERN VOLUSIA, LAKE SUMTER THAT HAS THAT CONCERN FOR THE STRONGEST WEATHER. OKAY. LEVEL TWO OUT OF FIVE RISK FOR SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS. THE ORLANDO METRO OFF TO THE SOUTH UNDER A LEVEL ONE OUT OF FIVE RISK FOR ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS. BUT NO MATTER WHAT THE SEVERITY RIGHT. WE’RE WAKING UP TO A REALLY KIND OF CRUMMY MORNING. MY WIFE EVEN CHIMED IN. I WAS LIKE, IT’S LIGHTNING OUTSIDE THIS MORNING. HERE’S A LIVE LOOK OVER AT PORT CANAVERAL, ONE OF THE CRUISE SHIPS IN PORT. BUT IT IS GRAY AND ANYTHING BUT INVITING OUTSIDE WINDS ARE SUSTAINED AT ABOUT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR, AND WE’VE SEEN GUSTS AROUND TOWN IN THE 30. EVEN NEARLY 50 MILE PER HOUR RANGE. LEESBURG GUSTED EARLIER TO 49 MILES AN HOUR, 37 IN ORLANDO AND ABOUT 29 IN MELBOURNE. SO THE NEXT FEW HOURS TIME, IT’S GOING TO BE CLOUDY. IT’S GOING TO BE DREARY AND WET AND THERE IS THAT THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. BUT THROUGH TIME, NOTICE THE RAIN CHANCES AND INTENSITY COME DOWN AND BY TONIGHT IT’S JUST GOING TO BE KIND OF GETTING BACK TO NORMAL A LITTLE BIT BY LITTLE BIT, WHICH WILL BE A WELCOME THING YOU ASK ME. BUT THAT SAID, THIS MORNING, THAT MORNING COMMUTE IS ANYTHING BUT NORMAL. IT IS WET AND YOU ADD IN SOME WIND AND A COUPL