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Updated NWS: Tropical Storm Humberto now Hurricane Humberto and Over Texas Coast (0210 CDT)
NOAA/NHC ^ | September 12, 2007 | NOAA/NHC

Posted on 09/12/2007 7:57:20 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Tropical Disturbance has formed in the NW Gulf of Mexico. Radar indicates a defined surface circulation. The system may strengthen into a tropical depression later today, with the possibility of further strengthening into a tropicalstorm prior to landfall. Houston and Galveston are under flash flood watches.

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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


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Louisiana; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: humberto; tropical
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To: Uncle Ike

?? I’m confused. Humberto *did* make landfall 5 miles east of High Island and that *is* in SE Texas. What’s wrong about saying that?

You mean that should have said “in” SE Texas, instead of “over”? Just confused.


181 posted on 09/13/2007 7:02:40 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: Rte66

” What’s wrong about saying that? “

I’ve already had my faulty thinking corrected by NautiNurse...

Apologies to all Texans I might have inadvertently offended..... ;~)


182 posted on 09/13/2007 7:05:03 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (We has met the enemy, and he is us........)
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To: Sax

To be called “Ingrid”...


183 posted on 09/13/2007 7:19:32 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: Sax

Has anyone heard from Karl Rove lately?!?
HAARP?!?!
/moonbat off


184 posted on 09/13/2007 7:20:35 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: Uncle Ike
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco issued the Louisiana State of Emergency Proclamation (pdf) yesterday. She's a formidable weather prognosticator these days.
185 posted on 09/13/2007 7:23:02 AM PDT by NautiNurse (McClatchy News report: Half the nation's families earn below the median family income)
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To: pillut48

I think Rove might have turned over the weather machine to someone else. :)


186 posted on 09/13/2007 7:26:45 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: txflake

Please pardon my weather ignorance—but this chart shows the storm possibly moving to the east coast? Is it possible for
a storm that big to re-form into another hurricane once it hits the waters of the Atlantic?

Hopefully no such thing exists, but I was just wondering if there’s even a chance of this happening.


187 posted on 09/13/2007 7:29:19 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: pillut48

It can happen. When it’s over land for that long it usually doesn’t but it has in the past.


188 posted on 09/13/2007 7:32:14 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: fatnotlazy

I don’t know—it seems awful coincidental that after Karl Rove leaves, we start having hurricanes again?!
/moonbat off

;-)


189 posted on 09/13/2007 7:34:02 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: Just another Joe

Oh, phooey. I sure hope and pray that such a thing doesn’t happen! I hope it heads further inland and helps all those drought stricken areas!


190 posted on 09/13/2007 7:34:53 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom, Bible Thumper and Proud to be an American! WIN, FRED, WIN!!!)
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To: Rte66

People forget that the reason Allison was so bad was she kept going back out and getting another bucketfull and then coming back and dropping it.


191 posted on 09/13/2007 7:37:08 AM PDT by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: pillut48

Oh no, not a HAARP reference! Somewhere between being able to communicate with submerged submarines and burning up the atmosphere and cracking the earth in half with resonating waves lies the truth...


192 posted on 09/13/2007 7:38:11 AM PDT by Sax
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To: pillut48; NautiNurse
To be called “Ingrid”...

Expected to be a TS by later today.

193 posted on 09/13/2007 7:40:14 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (IF TREASON IS THE QUESTION, THEN MOVEON.ORG IS THE ANSWER!)
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Statement as of 10:00 am CDT on September 13, 2007

...Humberto weakens to a tropical storm over southwestern
Louisiana...

At 1000 am CDT...1500 UTC...all coastal hurricane and tropical storm
warnings are discontinued. However...damaging winds are still
occurring inland near the center of Humberto. For storm
information specific to your area...including inland watches and
warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather
office.

At 1000 am CDT...1500z...the center of Tropical Storm Humberto was
located near latitude 30.6 north...longitude 93.2 west or about 75
miles...125 km...west-northwest of Lafayette Louisiana.

Humberto is moving toward the northeast near 12 mph...19 km/hr...and
this motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours.

Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph...100 km/hr...with higher
gusts. Additional weakening is expected today...and Humberto should
become a tropical depression by early Friday.

Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 35 miles...55 km
from the center.

Estimated minimum central pressure is 990 mb...29.23 inches.

Rainfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches are expected across much of
Louisiana and Mississippi...as well as extreme southeastern
Arkansas...with isolated maximum amounts of 12 inches possible.

Some coastal flooding is possible from Cameron Louisiana to
Vermillion Bay today.

Isolated tornadoes are possible in southeastern Louisiana and
southern Mississippi through tonight.

Repeating the 1000 am CDT position...30.6 N...93.2 W. Movement
toward...northeast near 12 mph. Maximum sustained winds...65 mph.
Minimum central pressure...990 mb.

The next advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at
400 PM CDT.

$$
Forecaster Franklin/Brown


194 posted on 09/13/2007 7:47:16 AM PDT by NautiNurse (McClatchy News report: Half the nation's families earn below the median family income)
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To: sweet_diane

Take heart.

Grass was crunchy and trees dying here in Texas this time last year, arguably the worst drought on record. Wildfire everywhere, just terrible.

This year we’ve had more rain than we know what to do with. August, which is usually brown, was bright green. The pecan trees, which we expected would die from drought, are now so loaded with fruit that their branches are breaking. Honest.

Debate among farmers here is which year was worse, the one in which nothing grew or the one with bumper crops that rotted in wet fields. At least this year the cattle have water.

The pendulum swings. Sometimes we have to go through valleys to appreciate the boring plains!

May Humberto bless you with rain.


195 posted on 09/13/2007 7:49:29 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: pillut48

“I don’t know—it seems awful coincidental that after Karl Rove leaves, we start having hurricanes again?!”

***

The fact that September is generally considered the prime month for hurricanes has nothing to do with it. LOL


196 posted on 09/13/2007 7:53:18 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: abb; abbi_normal_2; aberaussie; alancarp; Alas Babylon!; Alia; Alice in Wonderland; Amelia; asp1; ..
Tropical Storm Humberto is about 75 miles WNW
of Lafayette LA...winds 65 mph with higher gusts.


On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->

197 posted on 09/13/2007 7:59:34 AM PDT by NautiNurse (McClatchy News report: Half the nation's families earn below the median family income)
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To: ichabod1

Exactly - that’s why I was looking askance at the early recurvature models - and now my local TV mets are showing current ones with the same trends and saying we will be watching over the weekend here in SE TX.


198 posted on 09/13/2007 8:14:22 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: Uncle Ike

Oh, I see. I didn’t quite understand the reply message, lol.


199 posted on 09/13/2007 8:17:35 AM PDT by Rte66
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To: All; y'all

According to our local TV news earlier this morning, a person was killed in Bridge City, TX, by Hurr Humberto. Sorry I can’t remember details of the death at this moment, but there *is* a death toll, anyway.


200 posted on 09/13/2007 8:18:24 AM PDT by Rte66
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