Hurricane Milton: Understanding storm surge projections for Tampa Bay area
Granted, Hurricane Ike, that Mills described, was 20 feet of storm surge that went in 25 miles. A hurricane that hit Tampa in 1848 did bring 15 feet of storm surge and all of downtown had water. The storm is forecast to make landfall in Florida Wednesday night as a "dangerous major hurricane," according to the National Hurricane Center.
Tampa Bay has not been hit directly by a major hurricane since 1921, and authorities fear its luck is about to run out.
Hurricane Milton is on a projected path that would inflict a direct strike on Florida’s Tampa Bay, a densely populated and ...
The Tampa, Florida, metropolitan area, home to around 3.1 million people, is in the direct path of a major hurricane, Milton, ...
Hurricane Milton, now a powerful Category 4 storm, continued tracking eastward Tuesday on a path that could make a ...
Forecasters now predict that Milton could make landfall in western Florida sometime after 8 p.m. ET Wednesday.
The National Hurricane Center warns that Hurricane Milton could be “one of the most destructive hurricanes on record for west ...
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