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NASA captures wild image of Hurricane Debby from space as deadly storm barrels into Florida
NASA has captured a wild image of Hurricane Debby from space just hours before the deadly storm barreled into the coast of Florida.
The Category 1 storm made landfall in the state's Big Bend region - a central region of the Panhandle - early Monday morning.
Debby hammered Florida with more than 1.5 feet of rain, 80 mile per hour winds, storm surge and flash flooding that left 207,000 homes without power.
NASA captured the new image using a satellite about 22,000 miles above Earth's surface, revealing the giant swirling storm cloud crossing over Florida.
Debby has claimed five lives, including that of a 13-year-old boy in Levy County after a tree fell on a mobile home southwest of Gainesville, the Associated Press reported.
NASA snapped this satellite image of Hurricane Debbie just four hours before it made landfall in Florida
On Monday at 3:00AM ET, NASA took a photo of Debby churning just off the Florida coast using the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16).
It shows the hurricane just four hours before it made landfall in Florida.
GOES-16 is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
NASA helps develop and launch the GOES series of satellites, which observe Earth from about 22,000 miles above the equator.
The hurricane's outer bands of thunderstorms were captured in the image, which brought two isolated tornadoes to the state this week.
A NASA astronaut captured pictures of destructive Hurricane Beryl from space last month.
Matthew Dominick shot the images as the International Space Station traveled more than 200 miles above the Caribbean.
NASA studies hurricanes from space through images as the 'vantage point helps scientists understand how climate change impacts hurricanes and learn how communities can better prepare.'
The agency playing its part in monitoring Debby, which is making its way up the East Coast.
In Sarasota, Florida, roughly 500 people were rescued from flooded homes. Nearly 200 people were rescued from floodwaters in Manatee County.
'Essentially we’ve had twice the amount of the rain that was predicted for us to have,' Sarasota County Fire Chief David Rathbun said in a social media update.
Power has been restored to many of the 207,000 homes that experienced outages on Monday. But there are still nearly 36,000 customers without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us.
A flooded home in Hillsborough County, FL, on August 6, 2024
In addition to the 13-year-old boy in Levy County, Hurricane Debby's death toll includes a 19-year-old man in Georgia who had a tree fall onto his home, a 64-year-old truck driver from Mississippi whose vehicle fell into a canal in Hillsborough County, and a 38-year-old woman and 12-year-old boy who died in a car crash in Dixie County.
Debby is no longer hurricane force, but has traveled north as a tropical storm, drenching the East Coast with heavy rain.
Residents of Wimauma, a rural section of Hillsborough County, FL, drive through floodwaters of the Little Manatee river on August 5, 2024.
The storm has already dumped over a foot of rain in South Carolina and Georgia. Both states will remain under a flood warning until 6:45 p.m. ET this evening.
Debbie has moved slightly off the Georgia coast and is now hanging over the Atlantic ocean.
Officials say it could intensify before making a second landfall on the South Carolina coast Thursday. The storm currently has wind speeds of about 45 miles per hour.
'Potentially historic heavy rainfall across southeast Georgia and eastern South Carolina through Friday will likely result in areas of catastrophic flooding,' the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
'Heavy rainfall will likely result in flooding impacts from northern North Carolina through portions of Mid-Atlantic States and southern New England through Sunday Morning,' NHC added.