Watch: Hurricane Michael from Space Moments before Landfall in Mexico Beach, Florida

Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday afternoon and the cameras on the International Space Station captured it all from a star's perspective. The Category 4 storm hit just northwest of Medico Beach, Florida, just before 2 p.m. EDT.

Less than an hour before the storm made landfall, NASA turned the camera on board the station to face Michael down below and live streamed the storm's movement. The massive storm with impressive wind speeds was demolishing parts of Florida on Wednesday and was also expected to bring significant and life-threatening storm surge as well as strong winds.

The video captured from the station shows the storm at several different angles and passes right over the eye of the storm. The eye offers a look to the Earth below the storm. Everything around the eye is thick white cloud swirling around the eye.

The space station is about 255 miles above the surface of the Earth and orbits the planet at a rate of about 17,150 miles per hour, or 4.76 miles per second.

Astronauts on board the station were also sharing photos of the storm to Twitter wishing those back on Earth the best in handling what Michael was set to bring.

Stay safe America! pic.twitter.com/Sel3hf0Uzb

— S. Auñón-Chancellor (@AstroSerena) October 10, 2018

The cameras on board the station also captured the storm from above on Tuesday, a day before the storm had strengthened to its final landfall strength. The storm appeared slightly less well organized with a less apparent eye at that time but still large and powerful.

Cameras outside the station captured views of Hurricane Michael at 12:13pm and 12:50pm ET Oct. 9 as the storm churned over the Gulf of Mexico moving northwest at 12 miles an hour. pic.twitter.com/vkiK7xWgMm

— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) October 9, 2018

In addition to the cameras on the station, NASA was tracking the storm with satellites. Some of the tools even made it possible for those at NASA to see where the heaviest bands of rain were and how deep the clouds of the storm were.

Hurricane warnings were issued along the Florida coastline and inland of the storms landfall point of Mexico Beach. By 7 a.m. Thursday the storm was expected to be in Georgia before crossing into South Carolina. Both of the Carolinas were in a state of emergency Wednesday in preparation for Hurricane Michael's approach. Both states were hit hard by Hurricane Florence in September and were still working to recover from the record-breaking landfall the storm brought.

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Hurricane Michael just before making landfall in Florida on Wednesday. NASA

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