{"id":84161,"date":"2026-10-09T22:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=84161"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:10:26","slug":"hurricane-isaias-makes-panhandle-landfall-near-destin-as-a-category-2-hurricane-with-105-mph-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/10\/09\/hurricane-isaias-makes-panhandle-landfall-near-destin-as-a-category-2-hurricane-with-105-mph-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Isaias makes Panhandle landfall near Destin as a Category 2 hurricane with 105 MPH winds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summary of Current Landfall Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hurricane Isaias<\/strong> officially made landfall near Destin, Florida<\/strong>, around 8:30 PM CDT (9:30 PM EDT) on Friday, October 9, 2026<\/strong>.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Intensity at Landfall:<\/strong> Category 2 Hurricane<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Maximum Sustained Winds:<\/strong> $105\\text{ mph}$ ($165\\text{ km\/h}$)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Key Observations:<\/strong>\n
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    • Santa Rosa Sound:<\/strong> Sustained winds of $91\\text{ mph}$ with gusts up to $116\\text{ mph}$.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Pensacola:<\/strong> Wind gusts recorded over $100\\text{ mph}$.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Panama City Beach:<\/strong> Storm surge inundation gauge recorded levels around $5.4\\text{ to }5.6\\text{ feet}$ above normal tide level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Ongoing Safety Hazards & Immediate Warnings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Dangerous Wind & Tornado Risk:<\/strong> The National Weather Service (NWS) warns that danger does not cease after landfall. Embedded tornadoes and localized destructive gusts remain a major threat across the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama\/Georgia overnight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Life-Threatening Storm Surge:<\/strong> Inundation risks persist along low-lying coastal areas and bays east of the landfall center.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Power Outages & Inland Flooding:<\/strong> Widespread power outages have impacted hundreds of thousands of customers in Florida and Alabama, with heavy rain squalls moving rapidly inland.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        NWS Safety Advisory:<\/strong> Residents across the western Panhandle and surrounding inland zones should remain in their interior safe rooms and stay sheltered away from windows until all warning advisories are officially cleared.<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Summary of Current Landfall Details Hurricane Isaias officially made landfall near Destin, Florida, around 8:30 PM CDT (9:30 PM EDT) on Friday, October 9, 2026. Ongoing Safety Hazards & Immediate… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC9pbWFnZXMtMS00LndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJIdXJyaWNhbmUgSXNhaWFzIG1ha2VzIFBhbmhhbmRsZSBsYW5kZmFsbCBuZWFyIERlc3RpbiBhcyBhIENhdGVnb3J5IDIgaHVycmljYW5lIHdpdGggMTA1IE1QSCB3aW5kcyIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.KtA9ySVksjZAIdYm0qGjl6De-B6ae_vdph_uYOSscxkMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC9pbWFnZXMtMS00LndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJIdXJyaWNhbmUgSXNhaWFzIG1ha2VzIFBhbmhhbmRsZSBsYW5kZmFsbCBuZWFyIERlc3RpbiBhcyBhIENhdGVnb3J5IDIgaHVycmljYW5lIHdpdGggMTA1IE1QSCB3aW5kcyIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.KtA9ySVksjZAIdYm0qGjl6De-B6ae_vdph_uYOSscxkMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[694],"tags":[17984,17983,17836,16153,17927,17985,17950,17840],"class_list":["post-84161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-by-o","tag-category-2-hurricane","tag-destin-florida","tag-florida-panhandle","tag-florida-weather","tag-hurricane-isaias","tag-hurricane-landfall","tag-pensacola","tag-storm-surge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84168,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84161\/revisions\/84168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}