Hurricane Matthew makes Landfall creating Extreme Life Threatening Conditions

The eye wall of Hurricane Matthew skirted the coast of Florida and then struck the coast of Georgia as a Category 2 Hurricane. Highway I-95 is impassable along with many other roads. God Bless everyone, T @newTHOR on twitter http://bit.ly/1FL7e16 http://wxch.nl/2cX32PX Category 2 Matthew's eyewall is raking the South Carolina coast. Heavy rain and storm surge will combine to trigger major flooding in coastal Georgia and the Carolinas. The magnitude of the flooding in coastal South Carolina could match last October. Hurricane-force winds will also impact the coastal Carolinas. Storm surge flooding has caused devastation along the northeast Florida coast. Matthew will then meander off the Southeast coast or near the Bahamas well into next week. Hurricane Matthew's eyewall continues to approach South Carolina's coast with high winds and major storm surge flooding and will spread those impacts, in addition to potentially serious rainfall flooding, throughout Georgia, South Carolina and southern North Carolina through at least Saturday night. Landfall in South Carolina is likely over the next couple of hours. Hilton Head, South Carolina measured a wind gust of 83 mph just before 4:30 a.m. Saturday and Tybee Island, Georgia has recently reported an 80 mph wind gust. Hurricane warnings are in effect north of Altamaha Sound, Georgia to Surf City, North Carolina. This includes locations such as Savannah, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. A hurricane watch has been posted north of Surf City to Cape Lookout, North Carolina, meaning hurricane conditions are possible within 48 hours. A tropical storm warning continues north of there to include the Outer Banks of North Carolina, as well as Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. Matthew's eyewall has arrived on the coast with destructive hurricane-force gusts, which will spread north through Saturday along the Georgia coast and parts of the Carolina coasts. Storm surge flooding has already occurred along the northeast Florida coast, including in the Daytona Beach, St. Augustine and Jacksonville Beach areas, and has already spread as far north as South Carolina during Friday afternoon's high tide. According to the National Weather Service (NWS) in Jacksonville, Florida, Friday morning, "Barrier islands are likely to be breached and it is extremely possible that new inlets will be cut off in the worst affected areas." The NWS office in Charleston, South Carolina, said Friday that tide levels at both Charleston, South Carolina, and Ft. Pulaski, Georgia, could approach or even surpass those seen during the October 2015 epic flood event. Latest Status and Storm Reports Satellite and radar imagery show the eye of Matthew marching northward toward the South Carolina coast. Matthew's tropical storm-force wind field (at least 39 mph sustained winds) extends up to 185 miles from the center, and hurricane-force winds extend up to 45 miles from the center. Landfall is becoming more imminent as the eyewall moves northward into southern South Carolina. Storm Surge Reports Early Friday afternoon, storm surge flooding affected the St. Augustine area, including major flooding on Anastasia Island where water was reported to be 2.5 feet above ground level. To the south in nearby Flagler Beach, Florida, parts of A1A were washed out by the storm surge. Friday evening, water levels peaked around 7 feet above normal at Fernandina Beach, Florida. On Saturday morning a storm surge of just under 8 feet was recorded at Ft. Pulaski, Georgia, according to NOAA/National Ocean Service data. Fort Pulaski set a new record high of 12.57 ft MLLW (above normal low tide), which occurred two hours after high tide. This beads the old record going back to Hurricane David in 1979. The St. Johns River in northeast Florida reached its highest level on record at Shands Bridge, along with 3 to 4.3 feet of storm surge inundation reported at the Racy Point, Red Bay Point and I-295 Bridge tide gauges. As of early Saturday morning, the St. Johns River was flowing backwards. Farther south, the storm surge peaked at roughly 4 feet at Trident Pier, near Cape Canaveral early Friday.


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