Posted on 06/01/2007 1:39:25 PM PDT by dirtboy
...Tropical Storm Barry forms in the Gulf of Mexico...
at 5 PM EDT...2100 UTC... a Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for the West Coast of Florida from Bonita Beach northward to Keaton Beach...and a tropical storm watch has been issued from north of Keaton Beach to St. Marks. A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours and a tropical storm watch means that tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area...generally within 36 hours.
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At 500 PM EDT...2100z...the center of Tropical Storm Barry was located near latitude 24.2 north...longitude 85.5 west or about 320 miles...520 km...southwest of Tampa Florida and about 235 miles... 375 km...west of Key West Florida.
Barry is moving toward the north near 12 mph...19 km/hr. A gradual turn to the north-northeast with an increase in forward speed is expected during the next 24 hours.
Maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph...75 km/hr...with higher gusts. No significant change in strength is anticipated before Barry reaches the coast.
Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 90 miles...150 km mainly to the north and east of the center.
Minimum central pressure reported by a reconnaissance aircraft was 1000 mb...29.53 inches. Coastal storm surge flooding of up to 3 to 5 feet above normal tide levels...along with large and dangerous battering waves...are possible in the warning area near and to the right of where the center of Barry makes landfall. Barry is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 3 to 6 inches over the Florida Keys and peninsula into southeastern Georgia with possible isolated maximum amounts of 10 inches. Repeating the 500 PM EDT position...24.2 N...85.5 W. Movement toward...north near 12 mph. Maximum sustained winds...45 mph. Minimum central pressure...1000 mb.
An intermediate advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 800 PM EDT followed by the next complete advisory at 1100
someone pinged NN but in case NN is not available to ping...
And a sigh of relief is going out from this Jacksonville person for answered prayers. Keep these systems coming with more rain, no hurricane force winds and fill the aquifers, lakes and rivers back to normal as well as put out the raging fires. Thank you Lord!
Freegards,
Lex
Barbara and Barry, sitting in the sea ...
Churning it up for all to see.
If there is a Hurricane Ping, please add me to it. Thanks!
First came floods, then came looters
That track takes it over the wild fire areas of Georgia...should help a lot there!
Well, that didn’t take long, now did it?
When did *A* happen? I know we don’t start with *B*.
We still have way too many forest fires still burning, but already, the Apalachicola National Forest and areas eastward are getting persistent light rain, with bigger showers offshore and headed our way.
There are many mechanisms in nature here in Florida that quite literally depend an occasional tropical storm or hurricane.
Barry is heading out of the gulf quickly, but Barbara’s probably going to track up near the Mexican coast. My read on this is that Barbara has more potential to give a low, long greasy swell in the Western and Middle Gulf, if there’s enough energy left there in 2-3 days, and Barry is going to give a more choppy swell that will probably be negligible west of the middle Gulf (85w if anyone cares). I don’t see much interesting happening unless Barry stalls out in the next 12 hours. It seems to have formed too fast to have much oomph... but I’ve been wrong before.
sO TRUE
Starting early this year, eh?
I remember 5 years ago I was on vacation in Florida and the Weather Channel was going on about a Tropical Storm Barry heading our way. They reuse names quickly, I guess.
With any hope, hurricanes this year won’t be politicized like Katrina and Rita and governors will actually ORDER EVACUATIONS. And the Dems think the Republicans have the lower IQs...at least we actually get the crap out when there’s a category 5 200-mph wind hurricane coming straight for us.
We lived in VA Beach from 2000-2004 while my husband was in the Navy and only had to outrun Isabel (they sent my husband’s sub out to sea. THAT’S another fun story) Now we’re in Maryland just down the road from NAS Pax River, so this is our first hurricane season I won’t have to worry about my husband getting sent out to sea. Something tells me I have a lot to learn....
As an aside, our RINO governor is in Israel pursuing trade agreements.
Another Jacksonville Amen.
BTW- the gulf stream tends to shoot Atlantic hurricanes into the Carolinas, and the ones that come in across the Gulf loose alot of steam over land when they come in the back door, but Mayor Peyton this morning was reminding us Jacksonvillians that Hurricanes that come across the Tampa/ St.Marks area have a potential to feed on the warm water of the St. Johns.
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