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Posted on 09/21/2005 1:36:24 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Category 3 Hurricane Rita became the fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season during the night. Hurricane Rita threaded the needle through the Florida Straits and moved into the Gulf of Mexico. Storm damage in the Florida Keys and South Florida Peninsula was light, with scattered power outages, scattered tornados, and mild to moderate flooding.
Mandatory evacuations are in effect for Galveston County TX and New Orleans. Additional evacuation orders in the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area are anticipated throughout the day.
Crude oil prices reacted as oil producers shut down and evacuated workers from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
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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
Rita Forecast Track Archive
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Buoy Data Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Buoy Data Western Gulf of Mexico
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Texas
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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 |
Previous Threads:
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm Rita
Tropical Depression 18
I hate it when that happens.
Thanks much for a job well done on this thread.
Prayers for all in harms way.
Source, please.
Rita has bombed earlier than Katrina for one thing and the track of the storm is 300+ miles west of where Katrina hit. Big corporations don't need the local governments to authorize them to shut down. They have their own shutdown plans. My brother works for Dynegy, the Venice plants got demolished simply because of the storm surge and winds, they have pics of two dead cows on top of a 40 ft pipe rack.
As is usual for the Krohnikal, this was a hack job on the Republican planning teams. It assumed that the state leadership would react like it did in LA and dither around until the last second.
This isn't going to come to pass. We still have more than 48 hours by the most pessimistic estimates and many people have already left or are in the process of leaving.
Man, I just thought I was blown away by Katrina.
thats the complete vortex message you are looking at..they send out little bits of info before they make a complete vortex message. on um.."certain secret places"...that info just came across and will be included in the next full message...
She is getting the info from storm2k. Her info is correct.
Yes, but from what I've read and seen, certain local operations, even of large companies, kept insisting that they had to continue normal operations until the local govt started ordering evacuations. We all know what happened there.
LOL! It certainly would get peoples attention.....Hurricane Sissy...yawn. Hurricane ScreamingEagle....certainly gets MY attention!!!
I shall not have to water the lawn for a few if it gets up in the Panhandle of Texas....looks like OKC is it's path so that 200 miles east of me. Remember we use a crowbar as a weather stick up here....it's bent, it's breezy, it's broke , it's windy , wet it's raining, etc etc .....
Try these towns on I-30 from Dallas to Texarkana: Greenville, Sulphur Springs, Mt. Vernon, and Mt. Pleasant. There are probably a dozen motels along this route. The towns near I-20 going east from Dallas to Shreveport may be still filled with Katrina evacuees, but you can try: Kaufman, Tyler, Kilgore, Longview, Marshall. Also try I-20 west from Fort Worth: Weatherford, Abilene, Sweetwater, Big Spring. Also try Sherman (north of Dallas on 75) and Denton and Gainesville (north of DFW on I-35).
There might be some good news for me here in the land of cheese and beer; the reminants should roll in about Tuesday or Wednesday and green up the grass some (we're in the middle of a severe drought).
Thanks for that explanation.
Heard on local radio that here in tyler ..hotels are full
Oh $h!t.
I gotta think that the best thing at this point may be for the storm to stay annular (if indeed it's on it's way there. If she goes through another ERC, she'll most likely be annular after that. Also, when the eye starts to re-define it would be just about where the pool of very warm water rests. This is also not to mention that when ERC's do occur the swath of damaging winds "flattens out" over a much larger area. We may be into entirely new territory with this storm where we don't know the rules.
This is my last post for a while as we have elected to evacuate to seguin. If we have a computer when we arrive I will update everyone on the status of our freat escape.
Everyone in Houston and Galveston. Get out as fast as you can, this is a big one.
I have a "fast horse" but I do need your prayers..
Over and out....
TexanToTheCore
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