At 11 a.m., Milton continued moving away from Florida as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 80 mph. Portions of the Southeast coast and extreme northwestern Bahamas were feeling tropical-storm conditions and storm surge, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center.

Milton has became a hurricane-force extratropical low, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. "Tropical storm conditions and storm surge still occurring over portions of the southeastern U.

Even as some parts of Florida’s western coast were enduring a surge of seawater on Wednesday night, Hurricane Milton’s heavy winds were pushing water out of Tampa Bay. A flood gauge near Tampa showed the water levels fluctuating as Milton approached and then plummeting while the storm’s eye passed to the south — dropping three feet below the level expected on a normal day.