Hurricane Isaias came ashore near Destin, Florida, on Friday night and then lost strength quickly as it moved inland.

The National Hurricane Center said radar showed landfall around 8:30 p.m. Central time. Top winds were 105 mph, which made it a Category 2 storm. Earlier on Friday, Isaias had briefly been a Category 3, the level forecasters call a major hurricane, CBS News reported. Ninety minutes after landfall, its top winds had dropped to 90 mph, the hurricane center said. By early Saturday, CBS News and WSB-TV said it had become a post-tropical storm, meaning it no longer drew its power from warm ocean water.

The water came first. A gauge in Panama City Beach showed water 5.6 feet above the normal high-tide line, the hurricane center said. A weather station near Santa Rosa Sound measured a gust of 116 mph. Roads in Destin flooded, and police in Pensacola told people to stay off streets covered in debris, CBS News reported. Some Panhandle counties briefly paused emergency calls because it was too dangerous to send crews out.

Power is the biggest problem now. As of 5 a.m. Eastern time, more than 834,000 homes and businesses were in the dark, CBS News reported, citing the tracker PowerOutage.us. That included about 436,000 in Florida, 315,000 in Alabama and 83,000 in Georgia. Outages were climbing in north Georgia before dawn, WSB-TV reported.

The storm is not done. At 5 a.m. Eastern time Saturday, the hurricane center said Isaias was about 25 miles south-southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, moving north at 14 mph with top winds of 35 mph. All storm surge and tropical storm warnings have been dropped, and the storm is expected to fade out on Sunday. That was the center's last advisory on Isaias. The Weather Prediction Center takes over at 11 a.m. Eastern. The hurricane center expects 4 to 8 inches of rain across southern Alabama, southwest Georgia, the Florida Panhandle and the Big Bend, with up to 15 inches in spots. Tornadoes are possible through Saturday afternoon in the eastern Florida Panhandle, Georgia and the Carolinas. The BBC reported the center of the storm should cross Alabama and reach the Tennessee Valley over the weekend.

Florida, Alabama and Georgia all declared states of emergency before landfall, the BBC reported.

Isaias was the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season. It formed unusually late in the year.

What we know: Isaias hit near Destin as a strong hurricane and is now a weak, rain-heavy storm over Alabama.
What we don't: The full damage toll and how long it will take to restore power.