Hurricane Lisa forms - WESH 2 Orlando

Tropical Storm Lisa strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday.As of Wednesday morning, the tempest was located 55 miles east-southeast of Belize City. Lisa had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph and was moving westbound astatine 14 mph."On the forecast track, the halfway of Lisa volition marque landfall successful Belize aboriginal today, and past transverse bluish Guatemala and determination into southeastern Mexico by Thursday," the National Hurricane Center said. "Some strengthening is forecast earlier landfall. Rapid weakening volition hap aft the halfway of Lisa moves inland."This tempest is not expected to airs a menace to Florida.SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:A Hurricane Warning is successful effect for...* The seashore of Belize* Chetumal to Puerto Costa Maya, MexicoA Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect for...* Bay Islands, Honduras* North seashore of Honduras from Punta Castilla westward* North seashore of Guatemala* Puerto Costa Maya to Punta Allen, MexicoAdditionally, Hurricane Martin formed WednesdayKNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUEDStay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.COM, oregon NOAA Weather Radio for tempest updates.Prepare to bring wrong immoderate tract furniture, outdoor decorations oregon ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants, and thing other that tin beryllium picked up by the wind.Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.Prepare to screen each windows of your home. If shutters person not been installed, usage precut plywood.Check batteries and banal up connected canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking water, and medications.The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you person these items acceptable earlier the tempest strikes.Bottled water: One gallon of h2o per idiosyncratic per dayCanned nutrient and soup, specified arsenic beans and chiliCan opener for the cans without the easy-open lidsAssemble a first-aid kitTwo weeks' worthy of medicine medicationsBaby/children's needs, specified arsenic look and diapersFlashlight and batteriesBattery-operated upwind radioWHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUEDListen to the proposal of section officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.Complete mentation activities.If you are not advised to evacuate, enactment indoors, distant from windows.Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes tin hap during a hurricane and aft it passes over. Remain indoors, successful the halfway of your home, successful a closet oregon bath without windows.HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANEA smartphone tin beryllium your champion person successful a hurricane — with the close websites and apps, you tin crook it into a almighty instrumentality for guiding you done a storm’s approach, accomplishment and aftermath.Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | AndroidEnable exigency alerts — if you person an iPhone, prime settings, past spell into notifications. From there, look for authorities alerts and alteration exigency alerts.If you person an Android phone, from the location leafage of the app, scroll to the close on the bottommost and click connected "settings." On the settings menu, click connected "severe upwind alerts." From the menu, prime from the astir severe, moderate-severe, oregon each alerts.PET AND ANIMAL SAFETYYour favored should beryllium a portion of your household plan. If you indispensable evacuate, the astir important happening you tin bash to support your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, adjacent if you effort to make a harmless abstraction for them, could effect successful wounded oregon death.Contact hotels and motels extracurricular of your contiguous country to spot if they instrumentality pets.Ask friends, relatives and others extracurricular of the affected country whether they could structure your animal.