MIDWAY, Fla. (WTXL) -- Hurricane Harvey intensified Friday afternoon into a major Category 3 hurricane, less than 100 miles from the shores of Corpus Christi, Texas, with expected landfall to occur late tonight or early Saturday morning. Peak winds were 120 mph around the center of the hurricane. While storm surge and wind gusts are forecast to be significant for areas of the Texas Coastal Bend, a broader threat of widespread flooding rain totals exists into the weekend and early next week as the storm slows and possibly stalls over the Texas Gulf coast region.
A disorganized tropical low swirls over the Florida peninsula, providing moisture and areas of rain for parts of the Sunshine State. Development of the low while over land won't happen, but the system will drift into the western Atlantic by Saturday, hover over the warm Gulf Stream waters, and may gather more organization from there. For the local region, it would produce a north to northeast wind flow which would actually usher in a drier air mass, while areas of cloudiness will remain.
There are no other areas of immediate concern elsewhere in the tropical Atlantic basin.
