This is Crunch Time right now. We're going to get hit with a major hurricane. If you're there while that hits, it's going to be very difficult to survive that.

It's critical that the people that are in the path of this storm are also prepared. Very few people can survive being in the path of major storm surge, and this storm will be deadly if we don't get out of harm's way and take it seriously.

Hurricane Adalia, now a category for storm as we wake up this morning forecast to make landfall sometime in the next couple of hours along Florida's Big Bend where the peninsula merges into the Panhandle.

The National Hurricane Center says Adalia will sustain winds of 130 to 156 miles per hour with a very high risk of injury, death, and it will produce catastrophic damage inevitably.

The major concern is expected record-breaking storm surge of 12 to 16 feet in the landfall zone. Florida officials warning the surge could impact areas up to 200 miles south into the Tampa area and may lead areas uninhabitable for an extended period of time.

Several areas of Adalia's storm surge expect to be higher, even then Hurricane Ian's last year, which devastated the Fort Myers area and killed 149 people.

In addition, Hurricane Force winds will extend 25 miles outward from wherever the storm makes landfall.

The Tallahassee National Weather Service says wind likely will cause significant damage there too.

As Adalia tracks inland officials are warning of major coastal flooding between Savannah, Georgia, up into Charleston, South Carolina due to a tide, already expected to be higher than normal due to the occurrence of a rare blue super moon.

So let's go right to meteorologist Bill Carrens for the latest and what is shaping up bill to be a very, very serious storm.

Yeah, good morning, Willie. Adalia has done exactly what we feared intensified for the last 24 hours up in our category four.

This is the Tampa area. Tampa has not gotten the brunt of the storm that are high tide this morning at 4 o'clock, the water is high, the waves are splashing.

This is Tampa General near the hospital here, and you can see the cause way here. That's the kind of things that we're getting in the Tampa area.

More of the overwatch. We're not hearing about any destruction or anything like that.

So that's the good news for Tampa for you. It's just a glancing blow, but for other areas. Unfortunately, it's going to be much worse than that.

So here's the latest in the hurricane center 130 mile power maximum sustained winds. It's a little small eye that 130 mile power winds is not widespread.

It's about a 30 mile wide eye where we're going to have that concentration of extreme winds everywhere else like Tallahassee, Tampa.

More tropical storm force winds and the storm is moving quickly 17 miles per hour. So it's going to be moving on shore within the next two to three hours.

Here's the forecast pass from the hurricane center. So we have the landfall coming up and then we still think it's going to be a category two into southern Georgia.

So even well after landfall, it's still going to have a lot of wind damage here into southern Georgia by the time we get to late tonight in between Savannah and Charleston.

This will be about midnight or so maybe possibly still a category one or a strong tropical storm. We have concerns appear not just for wind and trees, but also the high tide this evening at about 830.

So the winds right now, we're not seeing a ton of power outages. We're seeing about winds up the 50 miles per hour in the Tampa area, 30s inland.

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