Gulf storm gains strength Goldberg forecasts Cat 2

Oct 7

David Muir and Lee Goldberg report a rapidly intensifying Gulf tropical storm with 65-mph winds, flooding already beginning in Alabama, residents buying supplies and Florida under a state of emergency. Goldberg says hurricane watches cover Biloxi, Pensacola and Panama City and forecasts hurricane strength the next morning and possible Category 2 intensity by Friday. Pensacola is a potential landfall location, while the Mississippi coast through the Florida Panhandle remains at risk. He forecasts damaging winds, flash flooding, tornadoes, five-to-seven-foot surge from Louisiana to western Florida and inland remnants reaching the Northeast by the weekend. Future intensity, track, timing and impacts are forecasts, rather than a completed landfall; the storm is unnamed in this passage.

On October 7, ABC reports a rapidly intensifying Gulf tropical storm at 65 mph, flooding beginning in Alabama and Gulf residents preparing supplies. Hurricane watches are in effect from Biloxi through Pensacola and Panama City; Florida has already declared an emergency. Lee Goldberg forecasts hurricane strength the following morning and possible Category 2 intensity by Friday, with potential Pensacola landfall but uncertainty across the Mississippi coast and Florida Panhandle. Wind, flash-flood, tornado and five-to-seven-foot surge risks remain forecasts.