"A track mainly over water will let the storm get stronger. How far west it meanders depends on the strength of Atlantic high pressure, which will keep Isaias to its west. In those areas, it will take bursts of heavy rain in feeder bands and squalls to “mix down” some of the stronger winds.Southeastern and eastern Massachusetts, as well as Rhode Island, will see gusts up to 50 mph, the core of the strongest winds largely in areas to the west.The winds will increase abruptly in a region of the storm mostly devoid of rain. The National Hurricane Center’s latest cone projection furthers the notion that the Carolinas could be in for a tropical storm situation as Isaias arrives likely sometime Monday. The National Weather Service in San Juan issued several marine warnings where possible waterspouts were detected via Doppler radar.At 5 p.m. Thursday, the National Hurricane Center pinned Isaias’s center about 155 miles west-northwest of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Some forecast models show a weak storm hitting the southern coast of Florida, while others show a much stronger storm lashing the east side of the state and moving toward the Carolinas.Isaias' official track does not bring the storm over Florida, but within 75 miles on Saturday and Sunday as it moves northward over the Bahamas.
Winds could still gust up to 60 mph, especially in southern areas, but gusts should gradually decrease farther east.A strip of gusty winds, potentially between 45 and 55 mph, also was moving into northern New England.In addition, heavy rain was falling in Upstate New York northward into Vermont, with flash flooding likely, as has been observed.NEW BERN, N.C. — Tropical Storm Isaias slammed into the Carolinas on Tuesday and quickly moved up the Eastern Seaboard, flooding coastal regions, spawning tornadoes and leaving at least two people dead, officials said.They died when a tornado ripped through a mobile home park around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in Bertie County, a marshy, low-lying area in the northeastern part of North Carolina, turning the Cedar Landing neighborhood into a debris field. This could lead to flash flooding, mudslides and potential riverine flooding.Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the Dominic Republic's southern and northern coastlines, the north coast of Haiti from Le Mole St Nicolas to the border with the Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the southeastern and central Bahamas.Additionally, a tropical storm watch was issued for Florida's east coast from Ocean Reef to Sebastian Inlet, the NHC said.Earlier tropical storm warnings for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands were discontinued.Now that it has been given the name Isaias -- pronounced (ees-ah-EE-as) -- it is the earliest storm to begin with an "I" on record. At,After an outbreak of tornadoes riddled the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic late Monday into Tuesday, tornado watches were hoisted for portions of the Northeast and southern New England. The storm’s exact track and rate of intensification, still coming into focus, will determine how severely Isaiah affects coastal zones and even areas farther inland.The adjustments come as a result of greater clarity regarding how Isaias’s structure would evolve after encountering the high terrain of the Dominican Republic.

ET at the Cedar Landing mobile home community in Windsor, North Carolina, the release stated.Task force teams are on the ground assisting in the search and rescue efforts, the county said.According to CNN affiliate WCTI, three people remain unaccounted for.Please enable JavaScript for a better experience.John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens: 70 mph. Packing 80 mph winds, the … Irene in 2011, but had higher gusts during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.Storm damage reports coming into the NWS included several reports of tree limbs falling on parked cars in Queens and Brooklyn, and New York’s JFK International Airport reported sustained winds of 40 mph gusting to 53, while La Guardia Airport recorded a wind gust to 60 mph during the past hour.At midday Tuesday, flash-flood warnings spanned from Baltimore to Allentown, Pa., as Isaias barreled into the northern Mid-Atlantic.

A look at reconnaissance data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft revealed weak low-level winds — in some cases under 15 mph — surrounding Isaias’s attempt at a true low-level center.However, microwave satellite imagery noted the mid-level core — detached from the initial low-level center — farther to the northeast. This trend would also mean that Tampa Bay would escape the strong winds and flooding storm surge that will come with Isaias.The wind field is still wide with this storm, as tropical-storm-force winds can extend outward up to 240 mph. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tropical Storm Isaias is now a hurricane.As of a special 11:40 p.m. update, hurricane hunter aircraft data found maximum winds within Isaias at 80 mph and a slight pressure drop, bringing this storm to category 1 hurricane strength.The storm is about 80 miles to the east-southeast of Great Inagua Island, Bahamas.The forecast model trend of shifting the storm’s expected path near Florida's east has continued today.This would keep the storm’s strongest winds on the east coast of the state, with the strongest winds of the hurricane remaining just offshore. An isolated tornado can’t be ruled out in coastal Maine, but the threat level is comparatively low.National Weather Service offices issued approximately 100 tornado warnings as Isaias moved up the Eastern Seaboard.While Tropical Storm Isaias resulted in widespread damaging winds across the Mid-Atlantic, including a gust to 68 mph at Dewey Beach and 71 mph at Grasonville, Md., the strongest gust resulted from an unusual circumstance.A waterspout — a tornado over the water — came ashore in Long Beach Island in Surf, N.J., running right into a weather station.
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