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Hurricane Isabel:Live Thread #2 "Force Ten Conditions In North Carolina And Further North"
NHC | 9-17-03 | My Favorite Headache

Posted on 09/17/2003 8:14:30 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Hurricane Isabel Advisory Number 48

Statement as of 11:00 PM EDT on September 17, 2003

...Outer bands of Hurricane Isabel moving onshore...weather should gradually worsen...

A Hurricane Warning remains in effect from Cape Fear North Carolina to Chincoteague Virginia...including Pamlico and Albemarle sounds...and the Chesapeake Bay south of Smith Point. A Hurricane Warning means that hurricane conditions are expected within the warning area...generally within 24 hours.

All preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion in the Hurricane Warning area.

A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect south of Cape Fear to South Santee River South Carolina...and north of Chincoteague to Sandy Hook New Jersey...including Delaware Bay. A Tropical Storm Warning also remains in effect for the Chesapeake Bay from Smith Point northward...and for the tidal Potomac.

At 11 PM EDT...0300z...the center of Hurricane Isabel was located by an Air Force reconnaissance aircraft near latitude 31.9 north... longitude 73.9 west or about 250 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras North Carolina.

Isabel is moving toward the north-northwest near 13 mph. A turn to the northwest with an increase in forward speed is expected prior to landfall. On the forecast track...the center of Isabel is expected to make landfall in eastern North Carolina during the day Thursday. However...conditions will deteriorate over a large area well before the center reaches the coast. Tropical storm conditions are already spreading across the coastline.

Maximum sustained winds are near 105 mph...with higher gusts. A slight increase in strength is possible prior to landfall.

Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 115 miles from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 315 miles. A buoy located west of the hurricane recently reported wind gusts to 74 mph and 32 foot waves.

An Air Force hurricane hunter plane recently reported a minimum central pressure of 956 mb...28.23 inches.

Storm surge flooding of 7 to 11 feet above normal tide levels... along with extremely large and dangerous battering waves...is expected near and to the north of where the center crosses the coast. Storm surge flooding of 4 to 8 ft above normal tide levels is expected in Chesapeake Bay and the tidal portions of adjacent rivers.

Storm total rainfalls of 6 to 10 inches...with locally higher amounts...are likely in association with Isabel.

There is a threat of isolated tornadoes over eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia on Thursday.

Repeating the 11 PM EDT position...31.9 N... 73.9 W. Movement toward...north-northwest near 13 mph. Maximum sustained winds...105 mph. Minimum central pressure... 956 mb.

For storm information specific to your area...please monitor products issued by your local weather office.

An intermediate advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 2 am EDT followed by the next complete advisory at 5 am EDT.

Forecaster Avila


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricaneisabel; isabel; landfall
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Parking lots? Huh?

Some time ago Shep was accused of trying to run down a female colleague for parking in his spot. I think he took an anger management course afterward.

But that doesn't mean you're out of danger. ;o)

1,321 posted on 09/18/2003 12:40:49 PM PDT by HughSeries
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To: Chemist_Geek
Just don't tell me Tony Snow Laurie Dhue is gay, or I'll have to swat spank you one. (assuming of course that you are her identical twin sister )
1,322 posted on 09/18/2003 12:41:19 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Slip18
I've always like Brit in a big brother type way. Laz would never say he was gay. Brit would pound him.

BRIT??? Aw hell, that man's more hetero than the entire 101st airborne after Ask/Tell/PoundEmIntoCrap Day.

1,323 posted on 09/18/2003 12:41:42 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: CobaltBlue
Again, go back and read my posts. I simply clarified someones misconception about trees in OK and made the comment about how silly it was to compare hurricanes and tornadoes and then you flamed me. I'm sorry that I didn't get the memo designating you as the "hurricane thread police".

It seems to me that you are the one getting off of the subject.

1,324 posted on 09/18/2003 12:42:50 PM PDT by okkev68
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To: Lazamataz
She's taken to wearing sweaters and has a frumpier look,

Not to mention she stopped using make-up, nail polish, and hair dye, AND renewed her dues to the NOW gang.

1,325 posted on 09/18/2003 12:43:02 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Howlin
Good thoughts and prayers going out to you and yours, Howlin. Stay safe!
1,326 posted on 09/18/2003 12:45:03 PM PDT by bd476 (Pants flying at half mast should be the least of one's concern - water and electricity don't mix.)
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To: 1Old Pro
Fox News just confirmed that a hotel housing some of their crew did collapse and wash away, actually?

Did I hear it was Kill Devil Hills correctly?
1,327 posted on 09/18/2003 12:45:11 PM PDT by Conservababe
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To: colorado tanker
Ya wanna bet
1,328 posted on 09/18/2003 12:45:29 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: Slip18
About 100,000 without power in Richmond, 600K overall in VA
1,329 posted on 09/18/2003 12:45:46 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: chimera
Certainly a state with the best weather in the world and much natural beauty

Well thank you.

Then again, when Cruzer-loser Bustedmental and his mechistas take it over, it will become Aztlan and the rest of us won't have to worry about it anymore.

Since *YOU* brought this up...

I guess that includes your home state of Ohio.

Read and weep

Columbus is becoming a mecca for illegal aliens. It's expanding by leaps and bounds...," according to an INS spokeswoman commenting on the March 1996 arrest of 42 illegal aliens. The Columbus Dispatch, March 28, 1996.

The 2000 Census found that 42.2 percent of Ohio's foreign-born population had arrived in the state since 1990. This demonstrates the effects of the current mass immigration

In February 2003, the INS estimated that the illegal alien population in Ohio was about 40,000 residents as of January 2000. This was nearly double the previous INS estimate that the illegal alien population was about 23,000 residents as of October 1996.

Ohio authorities requested compensation from the federal government in FY'99 for the incarceration expenses for 73,069 days of detention for illegal aliens in state and local jails and prisons.

1,330 posted on 09/18/2003 12:45:58 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Conservababe
Did I hear it was Kill Devil Hills correctly?

Uh Oh, I'm not watching.

1,331 posted on 09/18/2003 12:46:12 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Mo1
LOL! Stay safe, Right Coast FReepers.
1,332 posted on 09/18/2003 12:47:02 PM PDT by colorado tanker (USA - taking out the world's trash since 1776)
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To: 1Old Pro
Not to mention she stopped using make-up, nail polish, and hair dye, AND renewed her dues to the NOW gang.

Tony Snow giving her the Blizzard sure helped her remember what it was like for her to be a woman. She was flourishing while that little affair was happening.

I'm just surprised so few people caught it. It was so obvious to me what was going on that they might as well have put it on the Fox News Ticker....

T O N Y   S N O W   S C H T U P I N G   M A R I A   L I A S S O N

You know, that sort of thing...

1,333 posted on 09/18/2003 12:47:10 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: HughSeries
Oh, LOL.....
1,334 posted on 09/18/2003 12:47:19 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: Howlin
98 knots, not 98 mph. Add another ~ 15 mph = 110 or so, which is what they've been saying all along.

If I read one more post from someone who wants to talk about tornadoes in Kansas or Oklahoma I am going to reach right through the computer screen and smack him upside the head. ;^)
1,335 posted on 09/18/2003 12:47:21 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
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To: okkev68
It seems to me that you are the one getting off of the subject.

Wasn't the subject who's screwing who over at Fox News????

1,336 posted on 09/18/2003 12:47:55 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: Lazamataz
In her dreams.
1,337 posted on 09/18/2003 12:47:59 PM PDT by MEG33
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To: NautiNurse
Power in my neck of the woods (just outside Richmond) has been flickering but so far is still on. It's getting pretty windy out there - I'm guessing it's gusting to around 50MPH pretty regularly.
1,338 posted on 09/18/2003 12:48:07 PM PDT by NittanyLion (Go Tom Go!)
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To: Slip18
But he's a nice looking halibut. LOL!

Hehehe.....

1,339 posted on 09/18/2003 12:48:25 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: 1Old Pro
" . . .Laurie Dhue is gay, or I'll have to swat you one."

I don't think so. She pays too much to have those lips done to be Lezzie Dhue.

1,340 posted on 09/18/2003 12:48:28 PM PDT by Slip18
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