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Hurricane Dorian Live Thread II
NHC/NOAA ^ | 2 September 2019 | NHC/NOAA

Posted on 09/02/2019 7:50:54 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Catestrophic Hurricane Dorian was assigned Category 5 status by the NHC Sunday, September 1 at 0800. Since then Hurricane Dorian reached maximum sustained winds of 185 MPH, with gusts exceeding 220 MPH, and storm surge 18-23 feet above normal tide levels as it made landfall across Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. Dorian became the strongest hurricane in modern records for the Northwestern Bahamas.

Dorian has wrought extreme wind and flood damage to Abacos and Grand Bahama Island as it crawled slowly across the Northern Bahamas.

All interests along the Atlantic coast should continue monitoring conditions and forecasts as powerful Hurricane Dorian moves very close to the US coastline. Evacuation orders have been issued for many Atlantic coastal communities in the Southeast US. Evacuations include multiple hospitals and nursing homes along the coast with anticipated dangerous storm surge and battering waves.

Wind speed is expected to weaken and fluctuate in the coming days as the storm moves northward.





Satellite Imagery Dorian

NHC Public Advisories

NHC Discussions

Florida Radar Loop (with storm track overlay)

Buoy Data with Storm Track overlay

Previous thread: Hurricane Dorian Live Thread


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: North Carolina; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bahamas; dorian; hurricane; hurricanedorian; livehurricanedorian; prepper; preppers; tropical
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To: deks

A wind speed of 150 kts. or as was recorded yesterday during landfall at Marsh Bay of 185 kts, gust to 220 kts, is measured at essentially ground level. (The height of the anemometer above the ground may be 4 to a 100 feet.)


21 posted on 09/02/2019 8:08:08 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: MustKnowHistory

Ha! just noticed my typo in the body of the thread...Catestrophic...eeesh!


22 posted on 09/02/2019 8:10:38 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Will trans-Atlantic trains cross over or under the ocean?)
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To: NautiNurse

Think Hurricane Harvey two years ago.


23 posted on 09/02/2019 8:12:29 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: NautiNurse
Joe Bastardi ‏ Verified account @BigJoeBastardi 24m24 minutes ago More So far the new kid on the block , the GFS has out performed the euro, Caught the more east track in relation to FLA, Lets see if it wins the end game,
24 posted on 09/02/2019 8:12:58 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

Thanks


25 posted on 09/02/2019 8:13:45 AM PDT by deks
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To: crusty old prospector

Hurricane Harvey was, unfortunately, a perfect example of a pokey ‘cane. Great suffering in Houston.


26 posted on 09/02/2019 8:15:35 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Will trans-Atlantic trains cross over or under the ocean?)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

For better or worse, Governor McMaster doesn’t mess around declaring evacuations.

I’m sitting here in the Lowcountry of SC waiting.


27 posted on 09/02/2019 8:16:01 AM PDT by Mr Fuji
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To: TADSLOS
Jarrell. That one jumped right over our house in Belton and re-formed just south of Salado.

Best documentary on that tornado I have seen. You are very lucky!

https://youtu.be/gBauRBN-8As

28 posted on 09/02/2019 8:17:11 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: grania

What made Dorian stall over the Bahamas?

By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist Sep 2, 2019 Updated 1

Hurricane Dorian’s movement has slowed to 1 mph, less than the speed at which most of us walk.

The slowdown means the island of Grand Bahama could be in Dorian’s eye for more than nine hours.

This snail’s pace is not unheard of with hurricanes.

Recent hurricanes Harvey and Florence also slowed significantly after making landfall.

But the landfall wasn’t what slowed down Dorian — it has to do with what is steering the storm.

A high-pressure system over the western Atlantic is blocking it from moving northward, and a weakness in the high-pressure system is slowing it down.

At some point over the next 24 hours, the system will weaken enough that the hurricane will move northwest.


29 posted on 09/02/2019 8:18:08 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: NautiNurse

Of the 259 fatalities from Camille, 124 of them were from a single county in Central Virginia. Catastrophic flooding occurred there when the remnants of the hurricane stalled over the Blue Ridge mountains.

Folks need to get over the idea that wind speed is all that matters. With this storm though, the most damage may occur from storm surge over a multiple state area.


30 posted on 09/02/2019 8:19:22 AM PDT by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt)
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To: Karl Spooner

Yeah, we definitely dodged a big bullet that day. Tore up a bunch of docks and boats on Lake Belton, damaged some homes, then receded just west of us and re-formed along I-35. Jarrell was pretty much flattened. That thing was massive.


31 posted on 09/02/2019 8:22:02 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: TomGuy

https://twitter.com/jfernandezwplg/status/1168510167119478784

Jenise Fernandez

@jfernandezwplg

Safe and thankful for it after the #HurricaneDorian hit the #Bahamas where I am currently stationed. Join our Livestream and watch my live reports with the aftermath by tapping on this link http://bit.ly/2HHjGWe

6:05 AM - 2 Sep 2019

https://twitter.com/WPLGLocal10/status/1168232955887718401

WPLG Local 10 News
Verified account

@WPLGLocal10

First video coming in from Bahamas after Dorian passed through and it’s complete devastation http://bit.ly/30QN7wp


32 posted on 09/02/2019 8:22:55 AM PDT by maggief
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To: NautiNurse

On board for the continuation of this wild ride.


33 posted on 09/02/2019 8:22:59 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Jeeze, this guy is live streaming from Freeport. His house is 15’ above ground level and the water is 5’ below his deck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrSX9Q-ejY


34 posted on 09/02/2019 8:23:46 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Justa

Holy Crap.

Can’t imagine riding it out like that.


35 posted on 09/02/2019 8:27:14 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: NautiNurse; All

36 posted on 09/02/2019 8:29:47 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: independentmind

Of the 259 fatalities from Camille, 124 of them were from a single county in Central Virginia. Catastrophic flooding occurred there when the remnants of the hurricane stalled over the Blue Ridge mountains.

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I was old enough to remember Camille well - Nelson County is about an hour away from us. I’ve done a lot of hiking in Tye River basin, Rockfish area, etc. For those who want more info on Camille/Nelson County:

https://nelsonhistorical.org/cpage.php?pt=21

Lots of links/books, etc.

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This is the full video version of “A Portrait of a Disaster” as Chronicled by Edward Tinsley each day as the disaster relief effort unfolded. 30” of rain fell in Nelson County Virginia the night of August 19, 1969. This is Trooper Tinsley’s account of the rescue efforts recorded each day and put to video.

Hurricane Camille Remnants **GRAPHIC** - Flooding in Nelson County, Virginia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBTuFYwjlLw


37 posted on 09/02/2019 8:30:34 AM PDT by Qiviut (Support the country you live in or live in the country you support.)
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To: TADSLOS

K, he’s live streaming videos taken off FB pages. They’re from today tho.


38 posted on 09/02/2019 8:31:31 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: independentmind
Folks need to get over the idea that wind speed is all that matters.

Wind is certainly a factor, but water is the real killer in these storms.

39 posted on 09/02/2019 8:32:08 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: deks

Incoming:

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/


40 posted on 09/02/2019 8:33:37 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -- David Burge.)
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