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Update: Category 5 Hurricane Rita - Live Thread, Part II
NHC - NOAA ^ | 21 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

Posted on 09/21/2005 1:36:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Category 3 Hurricane Rita became the fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season during the night. Hurricane Rita threaded the needle through the Florida Straits and moved into the Gulf of Mexico. Storm damage in the Florida Keys and South Florida Peninsula was light, with scattered power outages, scattered tornados, and mild to moderate flooding.

Mandatory evacuations are in effect for Galveston County TX and New Orleans. Additional evacuation orders in the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area are anticipated throughout the day.

Crude oil prices reacted as oil producers shut down and evacuated workers from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track

Rita Forecast Track Archive
Forecast Models
Buoy Data Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Buoy Data Western Gulf of Mexico

Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Texas

Images:

Storm Floater IR Loop
GOM WV Loop
GOM IR Still Image
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Key West Long Range Radar Still Image

Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)

KHOU-TV/DT Houston: mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_khou
WWLTV NOLA

Additional Resources:

Coastal TX Evacuation Maps
KHOU Houston
KTRK ABC News Houston
Hurricane City
Wxnation Houston

Category Wind Speed Barometric Pressure Storm Surge Damage Potential
Tropical
Depression
< 39 mph
< 34 kts
    Minimal
Tropical
Storm
39 - 73 mph
34 - 63 kts
    Minimal
Hurricane 1
(Weak)
74 - 95 mph
64 - 82 kts
28.94" or more
980.02 mb or more
4.0' - 5.0'
1.2 m - 1.5 m
Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2
(Moderate)
96 - 110 mph
83 - 95 kts
28.50" - 28.93"
965.12 mb - 979.68 mb
6.0' - 8.0'
1.8 m - 2.4 m
Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3
(Strong)
111 - 130 mph
96 - 112 kts
27.91" - 28.49"
945.14 mb - 964.78 mb
9.0' - 12.0'
2.7 m - 3.7 m
Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4
(Very strong)
131 - 155 mph
113 - 135 kts
27.17" - 27.90"
920.08 mb - 944.80 mb
13.0' - 18.0'
3.9 m - 5.5 m
Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5
(Devastating)
Greater than 155 mph
Greater than 135 kts
Less than 27.17"
Less than 920.08 mb
Greater than 18.0'
Greater than 5.5m
Catastrophic building failures possible

Previous Threads:
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm Rita
Tropical Depression 18


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; katrinassister; rita; tropical; twinhurricanes
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To: SE Mom

After NO was hit, we started talking about the next 'worst case scenario' on the weather boards. A storm like this going towards Houston/Galveston would be just about it.

I can't believe this season.

I'm hoping for a quick decrease in strength.


2,481 posted on 09/21/2005 4:11:46 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: My Favorite Headache
If this new eyewall lasts 36-hours it will mean she will have a fresh one upon landfall.

Now all we need is for her to speed up to about 15kt and just get it all over with. What a nightmare.

2,482 posted on 09/21/2005 4:11:51 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: All


FYI

Shelter opening in the unused Lubys cafeteria in Burleson, Renfro exit just past 174 coming up I35 from the south...

If you are coming up 35 with no where to stay this would be a good choice.

Churches will help people from there.


2,483 posted on 09/21/2005 4:12:40 PM PDT by No Blue States (Fort Worth)
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To: mathluv

Guy just got his car stolen on KPRC CH2


2,484 posted on 09/21/2005 4:12:52 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: RDTF
I'm stickin with them.

Ditto

2,485 posted on 09/21/2005 4:12:53 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: Sprite518
Man just get out of their.. Call your wife, ask her what she needs packed because you are coming by to get her. If the job makes her stay, then its not worth it... What is more important family or a job? I am sure she will not have trouble finding a job later.. Now go call her...

I can't do that. They are flying in patients from Galveston to her hospital. Can we just leave them unattended for the next week or so?

Obviously, some employees don't care. If you were a patient there, you'd be begging the staff to stay. We're not going to do a New Orleans on those folks.

2,486 posted on 09/21/2005 4:12:55 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: DCPatriot

1 atmosphere is about 14.7 psi. It's also 1000 millibars or one Bar (Barometric pressure).


2,487 posted on 09/21/2005 4:13:00 PM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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To: nwctwx

But are you expecting it?


2,488 posted on 09/21/2005 4:13:05 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: DCPatriot

Millibars is just a different measurement for inches of mercury for measuring atmospheric pressure.

The lower the pressure the stronger a storm is, generally.

Meterologists use millibars almost exclusively.

Interestingly it's not the official metric name, which is Hectopascals; 1 Hectopascal is the same as one millibar though. Why this is so is a long and confusing story.)


2,489 posted on 09/21/2005 4:13:09 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: BurbankKarl
I have 60 bottles of water in my pantry...and 24 in the trunk!

What good are the 60 in your pantry if your house gets blown away?

2,490 posted on 09/21/2005 4:13:34 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: mewzilla
FNC's Janice Dean was saying earlier, if I understood her correctly, that there wouldn't be any radar pics from Rita while she's out in the middle of the Gulf. Radar wouldn't reach out that far?

None of the landbased NEXRAD radars can reach the center of Rita and won't be able to for a couple of days.

2,491 posted on 09/21/2005 4:14:00 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: truthandlife

Please get on out of there early, especially if she's already having contractions from the stress! You don't want to take the chance that she'll go into labor early while you're in an area with no power, no potable water, and possibly no functioning hospital!

Good luck!


2,492 posted on 09/21/2005 4:14:12 PM PDT by lasisra
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To: DCPatriot

inches, is inches of mecury in a barometric gauge

mb is millibars, the metric measurement of barametric pressure.

as we get lower and lower in millibars it indicates storm strenght

see the tables at the start of the article.

its pressure is now very low like Katrina and other super storms


2,493 posted on 09/21/2005 4:14:30 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: ArmyBratsMom

Thanks for the info...the before-after pics are, sadly, going to be something..


2,494 posted on 09/21/2005 4:14:31 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: BurbankKarl

That includes the Space Center down at Clear Lake.


2,495 posted on 09/21/2005 4:14:34 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I saw Kathleen Blanco on TV.)
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To: DCPatriot

I only worry about earthquakes!


2,496 posted on 09/21/2005 4:15:21 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: MikeinIraq

Beautiful storm...


2,497 posted on 09/21/2005 4:15:21 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: mewzilla
I think we will have to reply on Satellite until she gets closer.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml
2,498 posted on 09/21/2005 4:15:24 PM PDT by No Blue States (Fort Worth)
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To: sheikdetailfeather; Strategerist
Pointing his finger.."YOU ARE STUCK ON STUPID!"

Oh...

2,499 posted on 09/21/2005 4:15:46 PM PDT by CedarDave ("I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter" -- Lt. Gen. Honoré)
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To: Molly Pitcher
Aren't you in a mandatory evac area?

No, I'm on the west side of Houston, supposedly out of the flood plain or storm surge area.

I know I'm out of the storm surge, but they're talking about 12-18 inches of rain at my location in 12 hours, so I'm less confident about the flood part.

2,500 posted on 09/21/2005 4:15:55 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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