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CHARLEY BECOMES A (CATEGORY 4 Now!!) HURRICANE (18 ft. storm surge)
NHC ^ | 08-13-2004 | Forecaster Lawrence

Posted on 08/13/2004 10:08:09 AM PDT by Jeff400000

000 WTNT33 KNHC 131655 TCPAT3 BULLETIN HURRICANE CHARLEY INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 17A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004

...CHARLEY STRENGTHENS AS IT HEADS TOWARD FLORIDA WEST COAST...

A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS FROM THE DRY TORTUGAS TO THE SEVEN MILE BRIDGE...AND FOR THE FLORIDA WEST COAST FROM EAST CAPE SABLE NORTHWARD TO THE STEINHATCHEE RIVER. A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PREPARATIONS SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION.

THE TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE FLORIDA AND GEORGIA COASTS WERE RECENTLY EXTENDED SOUTHWARD TO JUPITER INLET FLORIDA AND ARE NOW IN EFFECT FROM THE SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SOUTH CAROLINA TO JUPITER INLET. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS FROM THE SEVEN MILE BRIDGE TO OCEAN REEF...AND ALONG THE SOUTH FLORIDA MAINLAND FROM OCEAN REEF TO EAST CAPE SABLE...INCLUDING FLORIDA BAY AND LAKE OKEECHOBEE.

A HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FLAGLER BEACH FLORIDA NORTHWARD TO THE SAVANNAH RIVER NEAR THE GEORGIA/SOUTH CAROLINA BORDER.

A TROPICAL STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. COAST FROM OCEAN REEF NORTHWARD TO SOUTH OF COCOA BEACH AND FROM THE SOUTH SANTEE RIVER NORTHWARD TO OREGON INLET NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING PAMLICO SOUND.

AT 1 PM EDT...1700Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE CHARLEY WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 25.7 NORTH...LONGITUDE 82.5 WEST OR ABOUT 70 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF FORT MYERS FLORIDA.

CHARLEY IS NOW MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH AND THIS MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY WITH AN INCREASE IN FORWARD SPEED. ON THIS TRACK...THE CENTER OF THE HURRICANE SHOULD REACH THE COAST IN THE VICINITY OF CHARLOTTE HARBOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

RECENT REPORTS FROM A RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 125 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS...CATEGORY THREE ON THE SAFFIR/SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE. THESE STRONGEST WINDS ARE CONFINED TO A SMALL AREA WITHIN A FEW MILES FROM CHARLEYS CENTER.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 30 MILES... 45 KM... FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 105 MILES...165 KM.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 964 MB...28.46 INCHES.

STORM SURGE FLOODING IN THE FLORIDA KEYS WILL BE SUBSIDING LATER TODAY. STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 10 TO 13 FEET IS EXPECTED NEAR AND SOUTH OF THE WHERE THE CENTER CROSSES THE FLORIDA WEST COAST. STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 4 TO 7 FEET ALONG AND NEAR THE GEORGIA COAST IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS WITH LESSER FLOODING TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH.

RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE LIKELY ALONG CHARLEYS PATH ACROSS THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. THESE RAINS COULD CAUSE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODS.

ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INCLUDING THE FLORIDA KEYS TODAY.

REPEATING THE 1 PM EDT POSITION...25.7 N... 82.5 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...NORTH-NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...125 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 964 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 3 PM EDT FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 5 PM EDT.

FORECASTER LAWRENCE


TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bush43; charley; charlie; elections; fl; florida; hugelosses; hurricane; hurricanecharley; hurricanecharlie; jeb; jebbush; politics; weather
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To: NCjim

Holding up a window screen blown off - these guys are struggling to find damage...


1,621 posted on 08/13/2004 2:49:39 PM PDT by NCjim
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To: Howlin

#@$%%##$%%^%$$@@##. Otherwise I get thrown off.


1,622 posted on 08/13/2004 2:49:55 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: sunshine state

Where are you in Sarasota?


1,623 posted on 08/13/2004 2:50:05 PM PDT by theophilusscribe ("America is too great for small dreams." —Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: SE Mom
I'm 5 miles north of Orlando- we're getting tornado warnings now

I'm 12 miles nortwest of Oralndo. Hearing some wind pick up. I better go check out that tornado curently in SE Orlando.

1,624 posted on 08/13/2004 2:50:12 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
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To: Dianna
Don't know.

If the federals though it was going to hit Tampa-St Pete, then they'ed try to move them inland: some certainly would have to go south and inland ----

Which is now where the storm is.

(Remember, this are the same federal government that wants to tell your doctor how, when, and what to treat your injuries for in what locations at what times!)
1,625 posted on 08/13/2004 2:50:15 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!))
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To: NCjim

CNN has the same feed as we've had on the net now! WOW!


1,626 posted on 08/13/2004 2:50:23 PM PDT by md2576 (Freep On!)
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To: CindyDawg

LOL ;^D


1,627 posted on 08/13/2004 2:50:27 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Strategerist

My friend called me to tell me her brother (who's a university prof, of course) told her the reason it went to Cat. 4 was because the Gulf was soooo warm. Why was the Gulf sooo warm, you guessed it...global warming.


1,628 posted on 08/13/2004 2:50:30 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Howlin
The reporters have already started in on Jeb.

It's his brother's fault.

Prayers for all of you possibly the path of the storm.

1,629 posted on 08/13/2004 2:51:15 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: md2576

They probably got the URL off FR *g


1,630 posted on 08/13/2004 2:51:19 PM PDT by NCjim
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To: BurbankKarl
some EOC has collapsed, on fire

EOC? Eastern Orthodox Church? Employee Owned Company? Electro-Optic Controller?

1,631 posted on 08/13/2004 2:51:34 PM PDT by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: NCjim

Oh, gosh.......some maps I saw had it coming ashore there, but who knows!


1,632 posted on 08/13/2004 2:51:54 PM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: Dianna

Irony is alot of the folks that evacuated from the Tampa Bay area moved inward to stay in hotels. And since the storm came in south of where they predicted, they are now having more weather than if they had stayed on their homes on the beaches. But that's a hurricane for you...unpredictable.


1,633 posted on 08/13/2004 2:52:17 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Ichneumon

Emergency Operations Center


1,634 posted on 08/13/2004 2:52:26 PM PDT by HipShot (EOM couldn't cut the head off a beer with a chainsaw)
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To: Ichneumon

Emergency Occupancy Center?


1,635 posted on 08/13/2004 2:52:34 PM PDT by NCjim
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To: Ichneumon

Try Emergency Operations Center


1,636 posted on 08/13/2004 2:52:41 PM PDT by sissyjane (You're either with us or against us.)
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To: Ichneumon

My guess is Emergency Operations Center.


1,637 posted on 08/13/2004 2:52:43 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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To: NCjim

Yeah we could only wish they were smart enough to be freepers. :)


1,638 posted on 08/13/2004 2:53:08 PM PDT by md2576 (Freep On!)
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To: Howlin

Yep - hurricane warning to Cape Lookout which is of course east of EI...


1,639 posted on 08/13/2004 2:53:45 PM PDT by NCjim
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To: oceanview

Good grief.


1,640 posted on 08/13/2004 2:54:50 PM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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