Nicole weakens to tropical storm after making landfall in Florida - WESH 2 Orlando

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ABOVE: WESH 2 is successful continuous unrecorded sum arsenic Nicole hits FloridaNicole made landfall successful Florida arsenic a Category 1 hurricane aboriginal Thursday greeting and aboriginal weakened to a tropical storm. The National Hurricane Center said it weakened to a tropical tempest aft its landfall conscionable southbound of Vero Beach.As of 1 p.m., Nicole was 45 miles northbound of Tampa and 165 miles southeast of Tallahassee. The tempest had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph and was moving northwest astatine 15 mph.Nicole dumped astir 4 inches of rainfall and wasn't done.Hurricane unit winds were recorded successful Volusia and Brevard.County by region impactsVideos amusement brutal winds, rains arsenic Nicole lashes Central FloridaHurricane warnings for Brevard and coastal Volusia County has been dropped. There is simply a tornado ticker issued for Flagler County until 1 p.m. Latest forecast below:Know your evacuation zones The worst of the upwind is moving done the portion Thursday morning. Nicole knocked the powerfulness retired for thousands of residents successful Brevard County. "Nicole is expected to accelerate north-northeastward connected Friday. On the forecast track, the halfway of Nicole volition determination implicit the acold northeastern Gulf of Mexico successful the adjacent respective hours and past determination inland implicit the eastbound Florida Panhandle tonight. Nicole should determination northward into Georgia aboriginal tonight, and past determination done the southeastern United States connected Friday," the National Hurricane Center said. "Little alteration successful spot is expected portion Nicole is implicit the Gulf of Mexico this day and evening. Nicole is expected to weaken to a slump implicit Georgia tonight, and past it is expected to merge with a frontal bound implicit the Mid-Atlantic United States by Friday night."Storm surge estimates * Jupiter Inlet Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia, including the St. Johns River to the Fuller Warren Bridge: 3 to 5 ft* Anclote River to Ochlockonee River: 3 to 5 ft* Altamaha Sound Georgia to the South Santee River South Carolina: 2 to 4 ft* St. Johns River southbound of the Fuller Warren Bridge to Georgetown Florida: 2 to 4 ft* Ochlockonee River to Indian Pass: 2 to 4 ft* Englewood to Anclote River including Tampa Bay: 1 to 3 ft* Jupiter Inlet to Hallandale Beach Florida: 1 to 3 ft* South Santee River to Surf City North Carolina: 1 to 2 ftRainfall estimates * Northwest Bahamas into portions of the Florida Peninsula: 3 to 5 inches with section imaginable of up to 8 inches.* Southeast into the cardinal Appalachians and eastbound portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio: 2 to 4 inches with section imaginable of up to 6 inches on the Blue Ridge.* Northern Mid-Atlantic into New England: 1 to 4 inches.SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:A Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect for...* Sebastian Inlet Florida to South Santee River South Carolina* The mediate of Longboat Key to Indian Pass FloridaA Storm Surge Warning is successful effect for...* Sebastian Inlet Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia* Mouth of the St. Johns River to Georgetown Florida* Anclote River Florida to Ochlockonee River FloridaA Storm Surge Watch is successful effect for...* Ochlockonee River to Indian Pass Florida* Altamaha Sound Georgia to South Santee River South CarolinaSURVIVING THE SEASON: Everything you request to cognize this hurricane play successful Florida>>> DOWNLOAD THE WESH 2 NEWS HURRICANE SURVIVAL GUIDE <<<KNOW 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 h2o 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.

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ABOVE: WESH 2 is successful continuous unrecorded sum arsenic Nicole hits Florida

Nicole made landfall successful Florida arsenic a Category 1 hurricane aboriginal Thursday greeting and aboriginal weakened to a tropical storm.

The National Hurricane Center said it weakened to a tropical tempest aft its landfall conscionable southbound of Vero Beach.

As of 1 p.m., Nicole was 45 miles northbound of Tampa and 165 miles southeast of Tallahassee. The tempest had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph and was moving northwest astatine 15 mph.

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Nicole dumped astir 4 inches of rainfall and wasn't done.

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Hurricane unit winds were recorded successful Volusia and Brevard.

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Take a look astatine immoderate of the highest upwind gusts we've work from what was Hurricane Nicole...

Hurricane unit winds work successful Volusia and Brevard... pic.twitter.com/OrGrBMR0mh

— Eric Burris (@EricBurrisWESH) November 10, 2022

County by region impacts

Videos amusement brutal winds, rains arsenic Nicole lashes Central Florida

Hurricane warnings for Brevard and coastal Volusia County has been dropped. There is simply a tornado ticker issued for Flagler County until 1 p.m.

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Latest forecast below:

Know your evacuation zones

The worst of the upwind is moving done the portion Thursday morning. Nicole knocked the powerfulness retired for thousands of residents successful Brevard County.

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When does the worst upwind commencement moving out?

Here's a look astatine the timeline.

9am oregon truthful things commencement getting amended on the coast... and past moving done the metro into our occidental areas done the afternoon;

Next fewer hours volition beryllium rough, but easing thankfully... pic.twitter.com/dldO8nXLC1

— Eric Burris (@EricBurrisWESH) November 10, 2022

"A crook toward the northwest and north-northwest is expected aboriginal today, followed by a crook toward the northbound tonight. Nicole is expected to accelerate north-northeastward connected Friday. On the forecast track, the halfway of Nicole volition proceed to determination crossed the westbound cardinal Florida peninsula this greeting and look implicit the acold northeastern Gulf of Mexico this afternoon. The halfway should past determination crossed the Florida Panhandle and Georgia tonight, and past determination done the southeastern United States connected Friday," the National Hurricane Center said. "Additional weakening is expected this greeting portion the halfway is implicit land. Little alteration successful spot is expected portion Nicole is implicit the Gulf of Mexico this day and evening. Nicole is expected to weaken to a slump implicit Georgia tonight, and past it is expected to merge with a frontal bound implicit the Mid-Atlantic United States by Friday night."

Storm surge estimates

* Jupiter Inlet Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia, including the St. Johns River to the Fuller Warren Bridge: 3 to 5 ft

* Anclote River to Ochlockonee River: 3 to 5 ft

* Altamaha Sound Georgia to the South Santee River South Carolina: 2 to 4 ft

* St. Johns River southbound of the Fuller Warren Bridge to Georgetown Florida: 2 to 4 ft

* Ochlockonee River to Indian Pass: 2 to 4 ft

* Englewood to Anclote River including Tampa Bay: 1 to 3 ft

* Jupiter Inlet to Hallandale Beach Florida: 1 to 3 ft

* South Santee River to Surf City North Carolina: 1 to 2 ft

Rainfall estimates

* Northwest Bahamas into portions of the Florida Peninsula: 3 to 5 inches with section imaginable of up to 8 inches.

* Southeast into the cardinal Appalachians and eastbound portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio: 2 to 4 inches with section imaginable of up to 6 inches on the Blue Ridge.

* Northern Mid-Atlantic into New England: 1 to 4 inches.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:

A Tropical Storm Warning is successful effect for...

* Sebastian Inlet Florida to South Santee River South Carolina

* The mediate of Longboat Key to Indian Pass Florida

A Storm Surge Warning is successful effect for...

* Sebastian Inlet Florida to Altamaha Sound Georgia

* Mouth of the St. Johns River to Georgetown Florida

* Anclote River Florida to Ochlockonee River Florida

A Storm Surge Watch is successful effect for...

* Ochlockonee River to Indian Pass Florida

* Altamaha Sound Georgia to South Santee River South Carolina

SURVIVING THE SEASON: Everything you request to cognize this hurricane play successful Florida

>>> DOWNLOAD THE WESH 2 NEWS HURRICANE SURVIVAL GUIDE <<<

KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUED

  • Stay 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 h2o 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 day
  • Canned nutrient and soup, specified arsenic beans and chili
  • Can opener for the cans without the easy-open lids
  • Assemble a first-aid kit
  • Two weeks' worthy of medicine medications
  • Baby/children's needs, specified arsenic look and diapers
  • Flashlight and batteries
  • Battery-operated upwind radio

WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUED

  • Listen 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 HURRICANE

A 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 | Android

Enable 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 SAFETY

Your 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.
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