Extremely Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Rita with maximum sustained winds 165 mph.
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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
Forecast Models
Buoy Data Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Buoy Data Western Gulf of Mexico
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Texas
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Hurricane City
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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
Prayers and best wishes for our Texas FRiends and Families.
Texas does seem to have it all together. I have been impressed by Texas for 3 weeks now!
Two Cat 5 storms in the Gulf in the space of one month. Simply amazing. Has not happened since 1960 I think (Donna/Ethel)
If they had been reporters instead of Dem propagandists for the last few weeks, they would know the answer to that one.
You must have missed him during Katrina, right? He needed to be medicated.
Extremely Dangerous Category 5 Hurricane Rita with maximum sustained winds 165 mph.
Thank you. That would be racist. /sarc
They'll be singing Lovely Rita.
Standing by a parking meter
when I caught a glimpse of Rita
filling in the ticket in her little white book
In the cap she looked much older
and the bag across her shoulder
made her look a little like a military man
Lots of churches, Salvation Army, RC, and some civic groups have booked blocks of hotel rooms. Anybody in the evac zone should not wait. West to San Antonio may be a good bet. Yhe RC has info tents set up on the evac routes. There are signs directing people to the info centers and shelters.
"You know, as a person who was born in 1961 and put up with the cold war, I never would have thought that I would ever see a day that the the US would let the Russians take over operation control of a ISS."
This new world is hard to understand sometimes.
Right on girl! When Ophelia came through last week that was all we heard. Unlike New Orleans, we know what how to prepare and we don't worry about looting afterwards either.
The whole country is, with small pockets of resistance.
All since yesterday morning.
I think if I lived where my brother lives (nw Houston, I would stay. If I lived where I used to live (Pearland, and on a street that flooded a lot cause it was in a hole) I would have gone and stayed at my brother's house...But this is in part because I expect the storm to hit between Port O'Connor and Corpus. And Houston is not New Orleans...Geography makes a diference.
KPRC has streaming up.
http://www.click2houston.com/index.html
Just showed traffic stacked up on I45 all the way from Galveston to the Woodlands.
Unbelivable.
Houston Mayor will have press conference soon.
Shep needs a guid ole fashin' heid-smak.
"Texas is NOT preparing now "in light of what happened in New Orleans." "
Careful now, you're dimming the spot light on that dynamic Mensa duo in LA.
That would mean the high pressure system has moved more to the East. The big variability in the models is how much she slows or speeds up and how long the high pressure stalls over the SouthEast...
You wear it well.
Apparently, Dr. Masters was impressed with the barometric data, but as we've been told on this thread, the winds tend to follow the uplift/pressure drop, as they have, so now we can all agree that she's a "5".
Whoa, looking at the newest map on FOX -- it sure looks like a LA landfall, doesn't it?
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