Menacing Michael: Incredible NASA footage shows hurricane’s swirling vortex from space as it makes landfall and batters Florida Panhandle
- The videos shows the hurricane’s swirling vortex, with lightning crackling through the heart of the storm, as it battered Florida’s coast
- First of the clips, taken this morning, showed the then-category 4 storm as it made landfall between Tyndall Air Force Base and Mexico Beach
- Its powerful 155mph winds ripped through the coast, flattening homes, flooding roads and leaving more than 400,000 without power
- At least one man was killed when the storm brought down a tree on his Greenboro home
- At about 3pm, another video taken from the International Space Station showed the eye of the storm – the most powerful to ever hit the Florida Panhandle – as it moved through the state
- ‘#Lightning continues to encircle the eyewall in #Michael as viewed from @NOAA’s #GOESEast Geostationary Lightning Mapper,’ NASA Sport tweeted alongside the video
NASA has released incredible footage of Hurricane Michael as seen from space.
The videos shows the hurricane’s swirling vortex, with lightning crackling through the heart of the storm, as it battered Florida’s coast.
The first of the clips, taken this morning, showed the then-category 4 storm as it made landfall between Tyndall Air Force Base and Mexico Beach.
NASA has released incredible footage of Hurricane Michael as seen from space (pictured is the storm seen from the International Space Station on Wednesday)
Cameras outside the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Michael at 12:58 p.m. EDT Oct. 10 from an altitude of 255 miles as the storm made landfall as a category 4 hurricane over the Florida panhandle
The National Hurricane Center reported maximum sustained winds near 150 mph with the potential to bring dangerous storm surge and heavy rains to the Florida panhandle area. Picture taken at 12:58 p.m from the International Space Station
The videos shows the hurricane’s swirling vortex as it battered Florida’s coast on Wednesday
Its powerful 155mph winds ripped through the coast, flattening homes, flooding roads and leaving more than 400,000 without power. At least one man was killed when the storm brought down a tree on his Greenboro home.
At about 3pm, another video taken from the International Space Station showed the eye of the storm – the most powerful to ever hit the Florida Panhandle – as it moved through the state.
‘#Lightning continues to encircle the eyewall in #Michael as viewed from @NOAA’s #GOESEast Geostationary Lightning Mapper,’ NASA Sport tweeted alongside the video.
‘Continuous lightning is present on the forward edge of the eyewall, and lightning detection on the rear edge rotate with specific sections of the eye.’
The videos shows the hurricane’s swirling vortex, with lightning crackling through the heart of the storm, as it battered Florida’s coast. ‘Continuous lightning is present on the forward edge of the eyewall, and lightning detection on the rear edge rotate with specific sections of the eye,’ NASA said
At about 3pm, another video taken from the International Space Station showed the eye of the storm – the most powerful to ever hit the Florida Panhandle – as it moved through the state
Footage shared at around 4pm showed the wind speeds had dropped to 140mph, with a central pressure of 927 MB, but it remained a ‘very powerful hurricane’.
The winds were so strong they brought down a billboard in Florida’s Panama City, tore down a Texaco gas pumping station canopy in Inlet Beach, and the storm surge completely knocked a house of its foundations in Mexico Beach. Beachfront structures could be seen collapsing and metal roofing materials were blown away amid the heavy rain.
Footage shows other homes and cars submerged in flood waters as the hurricane battered the Sunshine State.
As of around 8pm, Michael was about 20 miles southwest of Albany, Georgia, with winds of 100 mph, becoming a category 1 storm.
