Inside Harold's eyewall
Storm chaser Mike Scantlin reports from the eyewall of Tropical Storm Harold in Kennedy County, Texas, on Aug. 22.
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00:00 I'm Storm Chaser Mike Scanlan right now in what is essentially the eye wall of the Tropical Storm Harold here.
00:07 I'm near Armstrong, Texas. This is US 77 running north-south just about 25 miles inland from the barrier island there.
00:15 Now this Tropical Storm made landfall on Quadrant Island. There are no roads to get out there.
00:21 This is about as close as you can get.
00:23 We're having sustained winds of about 45 miles per hour. I've had gusts up to 70 miles per hour along this highway over the last 5 or 10 minutes.
00:33 But, you know, for a Tropical Storm this is packing quite a punch.
00:36 It's dumping a lot of rain into areas that need the rain really bad.
00:40 So, fortunately this storm is coming fast enough that we're probably going to be able to get through it without too much really bad flooding.
00:47 Right now I'm just riding up the corner of this storm on 77 and then I'll be heading north to cover flooding towards Kingsville, Corpus Christi, Texas here.
00:55 From Kennedy County, Texas for AccuWeather, I'm Storm Chaser Mike Scanlan.
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