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Assuming this timeline holds, hurricane force winds — close to the center of Milton — can be expected by late morning along the coastal areas of Tampa Bay and early afternoon inland.
The storm is moving east at 9 mph and is expected to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane near Tampa late Wednesday. ... Milton may be worst storm to hit Tampa area in over a century. 02:30 ...
It comes after Florida's Gulf Coast was just hit by Hurricane Helene. ... Mandatory evacuations orders were issued Monday for parts of Tampa and scheduled to take effect at 2:30 p.m. Officials in ...
October 10 — Hurricane Michael made landfall at 17:30 UTC near Mexico Beach, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (255 km/h), making it the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Florida panhandle, and the first Category 5 hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Milton, which strengthened from a tropical storm to hurricane on Sunday, was projected to make landfall on Wednesday as a major hurricane, likely hitting near the heavily populated Tampa Bay area ...
More storms hit Florida than any other U.S. state, [1] and since 1851 only eighteen hurricane seasons passed without a known storm impacting the state. Collectively, cyclones that hit the region have resulted in over 10,000 deaths, most of which occurred prior to the start of hurricane hunter flights in 1943.
Helene was centered about 425 miles southwest of Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday at 11 p.m. ET, the hurricane center said. The storm was driving maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and moving north at ...
Michael was the second-most intense hurricane to have made landfall during the month of October in the North Atlantic basin (including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea), behind the 1924 Cuba hurricane. [155] Michael was the first recorded Category 4 or 5 hurricane to strike the Florida Panhandle since reliable records began in 1851.