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Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread
NHC - NOAA ^ | 18 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

Posted on 09/18/2005 1:56:41 PM PDT by NautiNurse

Tropical Storm Rita has developed from TD 18 in the Atlantic Ocean. TS Rita is currently located north of Hispaniola, the eastern tip of Cuba, and ESE of Nassau, Bahamas. Hurricane watches and warnings are in effect for portions of Florida. Check for local weather statements.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Forecast Models
Buoy Data SE Florida
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Florida

Images:

Storm Floater IR Loop
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Florida Radar/Sat Loop Caution: Broadband users only!
Miami Long Range Radar Loop
Key West Long Range Radar Loop
Miami Experimental Radar Still Image
Key West Experimental Radar Still Image

Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)
WFOR-TV/DT Miami (WMP) - http://dayport.wm.llnwd.net/dayport_0025_live"
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (WMP) - mms://216.242.118.141/broadband

Other Resources:

Florida East Coast Surf Reports Lots of great info here, including surf cams
Central Florida Hurricane Center
Hurricane City

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: Announcements; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hurricane; lovelyrita; rita; tropical; weather
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To: Sam Cree

The store staff should have been a bit more polite. Remember all the partiers in the FQ in NO that looked like fools in retrospect? A hurricane is a hurricane, and cat 1's can kill too. It just takes one tornado, ya know.


441 posted on 09/19/2005 6:18:41 AM PDT by LBelle
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To: shezza
Educating Rita, ping... LOL! :o)

"Trish says what's the point of speaking beautiful literature with an ugla [ugly] voice?"

442 posted on 09/19/2005 6:19:58 AM PDT by N8VTXNinWV
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To: Flyer

I also like Dan Meador at KHOU...


443 posted on 09/19/2005 6:20:23 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: brytlea
Hopefully the items you stocked up on are nonperishable items. After 9/11, I have a whole pantry of canned goods,water, matches, first aid kit. Don't buy fruit juices in those plastic bottles, tough...they go bad reasonably fast.

Also, got supplies for cocktail hour!

So as the Boy Scouts of America say : BE PREPARED!
444 posted on 09/19/2005 6:24:39 AM PDT by not2worry (What goes around comes around!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Looking at the latest satellite, I think the center of circulation is AGAIN forming north of where they thought they had the fix. I think this storm is going to be quickly larger and farther north than expected. Florida will be very quickly under the gun.


445 posted on 09/19/2005 6:25:26 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: shield
OH yes we are paying attention. The southwest part of the state is on the ball, we have competent leaders here who know how to use the evacuation plan. They do work when used. I bought my hurricane staples yesterday, and am getting things ready to visit family up north.


446 posted on 09/19/2005 6:28:06 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: dogbyte12
people from Texas start evacuating east.

People will not evac east...we'll go north, west, northwest.

447 posted on 09/19/2005 6:28:25 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: SauronOfMordor
Here's the local meteorologist's blog

As General Honore says, we're not all stuck on stupid here. Southwest Louisiana isn't NOLA. .

448 posted on 09/19/2005 6:34:15 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: CajunConservative
As General Honore says, we're not all stuck on stupid here. Southwest Louisiana isn't NOLA. .

LOL...isn't that the truth. 3-star Honore' is a breath of fresh air. He sure says it like it is...He gets real not allowing all the crapola the MSM puts out there. I was told by the military, Honore' hit the ground cussing. He couldn't believe what he saw on the ground when he first arrived.

449 posted on 09/19/2005 6:43:17 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: dogbyte12

Indignant Baghdad Bob Nagin "There are no hurricanes throughout all of the gulf. The infadel Bush lies to keep our people from coming back to their homes."


450 posted on 09/19/2005 6:45:27 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: TXBSAFH; NautiNurse; All

Texas Gulf Coast Hurricanes since 1950
By The Associated Press

Oct. 15, 1989 Jerry, Galveston: 3 dead, $8.25 million damage, 100 mph winds.
Aug. 1, 1989 Chantal, Harris, Galveston, Brazoria Counties: 3 dead, $1.7 million damage, heavy rains and 80 mph winds
June 26, 1986 Bonnie, south of Port Arthur: 3 dead, $1.7 million damage, winds 85 mph
Aug. 28, 1983 Barry, south of Brownsville: center moved inland over northern Mexico
Aug. 18, 1983 Alicia, Galveston-Houston: 21 dead, $1.2 billion est. damage.
Aug. 9, 1980 Allen, lower coast: extreme intensity, 2 dead, $55 million damage, winds 185 mph.
Sept. 3-12, 1971 Fern, middle coast: 2 dead, $30.2 million damage.
Aug. 3, 1970 Celia, Corpus Christi: extreme intensity, 11 dead, $50 million damage, wind gusts to 160 mph.
Sept. 18-23, 1967 Beulah, Brownsville: extreme intensity, 13 dead, $150 million damage.
Sept. 16-20, 1963 Cindy, Port Arthur: no deaths, $11.6 million damage, 24 inches of rain in Jefferson, Orange and Newton counties.
Sept. 11-13, 1961 Carla, Port O'Connor: extreme intensity, 34 dead, $300 million damage, wind gusts estimated at 175 mph, storm tide 18.5 feet at Port Lavaca.
July 22-27, 1959 Debra, Galveston: $6 million damage.
June 27, 1957 Audrey, Sabine Pass: 10 dead, $8 million damage.
June 26-28, 1954 Alice, Rio Grande Valley: storm struck Mexico but heavy rainfall in Southwest Texas caused severe flooding on middle Rio Grande


451 posted on 09/19/2005 6:49:32 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: shield

He does what Rummy did to the MSM with just a little more flavor to the words. The MSM is so dense they need the likes of Honore to 'splain things to them. I loved it when one of the nattering nabobs was whining that they could get into the area why couldn't the military? That spate of honesty was so refreshing. I don't know if there is a clip online or not but Honore let that reporter have it good. :D


452 posted on 09/19/2005 6:49:35 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: SauronOfMordor
Current models predict landfall anywhere from southern Texas to Louisiana. I wonder how the LA residents are taking it?


Nagin is currently re-populating his city of New Orleans.....Thad Allen has disagreed with this move. Nagin is having a meeting with him this afternoon about it.
453 posted on 09/19/2005 6:52:26 AM PDT by LA Woman3 (On election day, they were driven to the polls...On evacuation day, they had to fend for themselves)
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To: shield; dogbyte12
People will not evac east...we'll go north, west, northwest.

I remember living in San Antonio when either Alicia or Allison hit the Houston area.(can't remember now which one it was) Quite a number of people had evacuated to San Antonio. Whichever storm it was, San Antonio was in the path of some of the remnants. We had a tornado damage a small portion of the VA hospital there. Don't get many tornadoes in San Antonio.

454 posted on 09/19/2005 6:53:36 AM PDT by Sally'sConcerns (Rita, if you have to visit Texas, the King Ranch area is nice this time of year!)
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To: NautiNurse

Well...not to be alarmist or anything...My neighbor across the street has a brother in law that woprks at AccuWeather. He just called me and said their forecast which is about 15 minutes old hasd Rita doing an "explosive intensification" as it approaches the Florida Keys. Says a Cat 4 as it nears Key West.

Here I sit on Sugarloaf key, 17 ,iles north of Key West.

Take it with a grain of salt, but this could be the worst storm to hit the Keys in decades according to this guy at Accuweather.

Bye for now, got preparations to take care of.

Mandatory evac now up for the Keys. I'm going to hang in here, hopefully I'm not making a mistake.


455 posted on 09/19/2005 6:58:54 AM PDT by jsh3180
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To: jsh3180

That massive intensification thing jibes with what I'm seeing on the satellite as this morning unfolds. The 11:00 NHS update should be enlightening.


456 posted on 09/19/2005 7:02:37 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: jsh3180

Jeb Bush on Fox now.


457 posted on 09/19/2005 7:03:07 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: LikeLight

NHS = NHC


458 posted on 09/19/2005 7:03:15 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: jsh3180

Git yer preps done, and git north ASAP. I think she's gonna bomb out west of the Keys, but you never know. It would be prudent to evacuate. It's gonna be nasty in the Keys regardless of whether she bombs before or after passing.


459 posted on 09/19/2005 7:04:55 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Talk about light and day between him and BlanK0. It does matter who you elect. I've been rubbing that in to my lib dem sister. Bobby Jindal would have been like Jeb. Calm, reassuring and knows what the hell to do in a crisis.


460 posted on 09/19/2005 7:05:55 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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