Hurricane Ian is approaching the southeast coast of the United States

St. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Ian became a hurricane again Thursday night as it moved over the Atlantic. It left in its wake a catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding on the Florida peninsula, National Hurricane Center said.

As of 8 p.m., Hurricane Ian was about 215 miles south of Charleston, South Carolina, moving north-northeast at 10 mph. Maximum wind speed is 75 mph.

The NHC expects Yang to turn north on Thursday evening and then turn to the north-northwest with increasing speed on Friday. The storm will approach the South Carolina coast on Friday, and the center will move further inland into the Carolinas later that night and into Saturday.

The storm may strengthen slightly before making landfall, but is also forecast to weaken quickly over the southeastern United States late Friday, the NHC said.

Ian initially made landfall as a Category 4 storm off Florida’s southwest coast near Cayo Costa around 3:05 p.m. Wednesday, the NHC said. Maximum winds reached 150 mph with gusts even higher.

On Wednesday at 4:35 p.m., Ian made a second landfall — on the mainland — south of Punta Gorda as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 145 mph.

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• Flagler/Volusia line to Cape Fear
• Neuse River
• St. John’s River

• from Savannah River to Cape Fear

• Sebastian’s Entrance to the Savannah River
• Cape Fear to the North Carolina Docks
• The sound of Pamlik

• North of Cape Fear to the North Carolina Docks
• Pamlico River
• Cape Fear River

• Flagler/Volusia County Line to Savannah River
• East from Cape Fear to Surf City

See the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of uncertainty” above. It represents a likely path center tropical cyclone – note that the impact of a tropical system does come from the center and outside the cone.