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Hurricane Isaias lashes Southeast after Gulf Coast landfall
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm, then weakened to a post-tropical cyclone while still bringing dangerous winds, flooding and power outages across the region.
In brief
The first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm, then weakened to a post-tropical cyclone while still bringing dangerous winds, flooding and power outages across the region. Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday night as a Category 2…
First hurricane of 2026 makes landfall
Isaias, the first hurricane of the two thousand twenty-six Atlantic season, made landfall in the northern Gulf Coast near Destin, Florida, on Friday night as a Category two storm.
Storm weakens to post-tropical cyclone
Within hours of landfall, Isaias weakened to a post-tropical cyclone. By two a.m. Eastern Time Saturday, it had maximum sustained winds of sixty-five miles per hour.
Storm briefly reached Category 3 strength
Prior to making landfall, Isaias had strengthened to a Category three with maximum sustained winds of one hundred twenty miles per hour before weakening to Category two.
Hundreds of thousands lose power
More than six hundred ninety-seven thousand customers were without power across Florida, Alabama and Georgia, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.
Tens of thousands evacuate the region
Tens of thousands of people across the northern Gulf Coast were placed under evacuation orders ahead of Isaias.
Flooding and damage reported in Panhandle
Roads in Destin were flooded. In nearby Pensacola, police warned residents to stay off streets because of debris. Residents posted pictures online of downed trees and power lines.
Roof ripped off inn in Pensacola
One video posted to social media showed a roof being ripped off an inn in Pensacola. Some Florida Panhandle counties temporarily suspended emergency response due to dangerous conditions.
Heavy rainfall expected across Southeast
Isaias was forecast to bring four to eight inches of rain across southern Alabama, southwest Georgia, the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend, with totals as high as fifteen inches.
All roads closed in Houston County, Alabama
All roads in the southern Alabama county of Houston were closed early Saturday morning because of downed trees and power lines caused by high winds from Isaias.
Trump cancels football game attendance
President Trump scrapped his plans to attend Saturday's football game between the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, saying he did not want to disrupt emergency response efforts.
Storm expected to miss major oil hubs
Isaias was expected to miss the oil industry's biggest hubs along the Gulf Coast, but fuel prices could rise if power outages shut down refineries for processing crude, industry experts said.
The big picture
Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday night as a Category 2 storm and weakened to a post-tropical cyclone by Saturday morning, leaving over 697,000 customers without power across Florida, Alabama and Georgia.
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