Posted on 08/01/2006 3:46:35 PM PDT by varina davis
BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM CHRIS SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 5 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL032006 530 PM AST TUE AUG 01 2006
...CHRIS STRENGTHENS SOME MORE...
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ISLANDS OF ANTIGUA...BARBUDA...ANGUILLA...ST. KITTS...NEVIS...SABA...ST. EUSTATIUS...ST. BARTHELEMY...ST. MARTIN...AND ST. MAARTEN. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR PUERTO RICO AND THE U.S. AND BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.
FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.
AT 530 PM AST...2130Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM CHRIS WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 18.0 NORTH...LONGITUDE 61.1 WEST OR ABOUT 75 MILES...125 KM...NORTHEAST OF ANTIGUA.
CHRIS IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH...17 KM/HR... AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ON THIS TRACK THE CENTER OF CHRIS WILL MOVE NEAR OR OVER THE NORTHERNMOST LEEWARD ISLANDS TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY.
LATEST REPORTS FROM THE AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE PLANE INDICATE THAT THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 60 MPH...95 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 25 MILES...35 KM FROM THE CENTER.
THE AIR FORCE PLANCE RECENTLY REPORTED A MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1003 MB...29.62 INCHES.
CHRIS IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES OVER THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS...THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS...AND EASTERN PORITONS OF PUERTO RICO...WITH POSSIBLE ISOLATED MAXIMUM ACOUNTS OF 8 INCHES THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
REPEATING THE 530 PM AST POSITION...18.0 N...61.1 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...60 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1003 MB.
AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 730 PM AST FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 1030 PM AST.
$$ FORECASTER PASCH/KNABB
Global Warming sucks.
Would you please quit placing nearly every weather related thread you post, in breaking?
Thanks,
AM
OK
Obviously it is probably too early to predict where it will end up, but is there anything in the weather patterns expected for the next week that would move it from simply continuing on its current course (which looks like it would project out to somewhere in Texas)?
Just watched our local (Houston) weather guy talking about Chris. Glad I had plywood cut to fit last month and stored in our garage. This might be the year we need it.
in you live in south FL you need to keep an eye on this..its looking better all the time
I just knew that the eeeeevilllll Rove would fire up the Hurricane Maker/Panini Grill as soon as he was cleared in the Plame case.
There must be some oil they're after.
OH BOY!! At last there could be a full fledged hurricane that the MSM can slobber over. They seem to get depressed if they don't have some catastrophic weather to report. They must be whooping it up in the newsrooms of America right now!
If it turns toward the mainland, buy energy stocks.
The axis of eeeevilll.....Cheney/Rove/Haliburton....Wonder where Rove wants this to hit?
Bush seemed upbeat in his interview with Cavuto on Fox, he must have been briefed on the impending weather.
Such barbarism.
Cough.
Our Dallas weather guy said that it likely will turn north before getting far enough west to bring Texas rain, but nothing is for sure yet.
Isn't that why Bush was in Miami? Hurricane Summit!
Cavuto did say "It was hot and I was sweating. President Bush wasn't." Paraphrased to a degree.
You perhaps are onto something.
Hurricane Summit chaired by Bush, my mind is swimming.
Ping
Now they expect it to become a hurricane Wednesday instead of Friday. I got gas for the generator tonight. Hope I won't need it.
5pm advisory out - winds dropped slightly, to 60 mph.
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