The National Weather Service warned residents to shelter-in-place as conditions deteriorated dramatically Wednesday afternoon and Hurricane Milton roared toward Florida's beleaguered west coast.
Tropical-storm force winds, flooding rains and tornadoes were spreading inland as the fierce hurricane was just hours from making landfall. Milton's sustained winds tapered off from 145 mph to 130 mph − just high enough to remain a Category 4 hurricane − but the storm has grown in size, making its potential damage more widespread.
Milton's tropical-storm-force winds now extend out to 250 miles.
Millions of storm-weary Floridians had been ordered or urged to flee earlier in the day, particularly in the Tampa area, which was in the bulls-eye of the storm. The center of Milton was forecast to move across the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall Wednesday night, the National Hurricane Center said.
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