Residents can plug in their addresses at /planprepare to find out what zone they’re in. After opening the sites on Wednesday, county emergency officials will then call for an evacuation of certain residents. Seminole County officials announced plans to open eight emergency shelters at public schools across the county as Hurricane Ian approaches the Florida peninsula. Other counties will be issuing evacuation orders as well, and DeSantis urged residents to listen to their local officials and “heed their warnings.” Parts of Lee County were under mandatory evacuation orders issued Tuesday.
Residents in other zones are urged to find high ground, Cathie Perkins, the county emergency management director said. a mandatory evacuation will begin for residents in Zone A and all mobile homes. Pinellas County has already begun evacuating nursing homes, residential facilities, and hospitals. “Make sure you have your plan in place,” he said.ĭeSantis announced in an afternoon press conference that Hillsborough County has ordered a mandatory evacuation for residents in Zone A and all manufactured housing, and a voluntary evacuation for those in Zone B. Tuesday, less than 2,000 people in the state are without power, mostly in Miami-Dade County according to. He warned of power loss as it makes landfall across a wide breadth of the state no matter where it finally makes landfall. So you look at the cone and if you look at where they have the landfall going, I think the landfall is still Levy County, the impacts are going to be much much broader than that.” “This is a really, really big hurricane at this point, the diameter, the width of it’s about 500 miles wide. “Floridians up and down the Gulf Coast should feel the impacts of this as up to 36 hours before the actual landfall due to the size of the hurricane,” DeSantis said. Hurricane Ian wind arrival times as of 5 a.m. Ron DeSantis said Monday 5,000 National Guardsmen from Florida along with 2,000 more from neighboring states have been activated along with five urban search and rescue teams in preparation for the storm’s impact during a a press conference from the State Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee. “The combination of storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline,” the NHC said. Surge as the storm passes through the state is projected to be up to 4 feet along Florida’s East Coast including from Volusia County north into Georgia.
The coast could see devastating effects from storm surge with a warning that from the Anclote River south to the middle of Longboat Key, surges could see between 5 to 10 feet. A third warning near Plantation Key came after 6:30 a.m. Tornadoes are possible in Florida beginning today as well.Īlready overnight, the National Weather Service issued tornado warnings in the Florida Keys as the outer bands of Ian began to move over the peninsula and possible funnel clouds were spotted near the Seven Mile Bridge around 1 a.m. “Flash and urban flooding are also expected with rainfall across southern Florida through mid week.” “Widespread considerable flash and urban flooding are expected mid-to-late week across central and northern Florida, southern Georgia, and coastal South Carolina, with significant, prolonged river flooding expected across central to northern Florida,” the NHC said. This infrared radar image shows Hurricane Ian entering the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, Sept. The NHC said central west Florida could see between 12 and 16 inches of rain with some maximum totals up to 24 inches. The impact for the region from Ian is expected to be rain, flooding, severe storms and high wind gusts, with the worst weather expected on Wednesday and Thursday. Lake, Sumter and Polk counties are also under a hurricane watch. Tropical-storm conditions are expected in the area within 36 hours. Much of Central Florida including Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk and Seminole counties are now under a tropical storm warning while Volusia is under a tropical storm watch. A Hurricane Watch was issued for North of Anclote River to the Suwannee River. The shift in projected path Tuesday morning prompted the NHC to extend the hurricane warning along Florida’s west coast farther south so it now runs from Bonita Beach up to the Anclote River near Tarpon Springs including all of Tampa Bay as well as the Dry Tortugas. “Users are reminded to not focus on the exact track as some additional adjustments to the track are possible, and wind, storm surge, and rainfall hazards will extend far from the center.”
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