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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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Three Day Forecast Track
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Rita Forecast Track Archive
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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
It doesn't really matter....in a CAT 5, nothing survives unscathed.
Click to read article at top of thread and scroll down... the link is there.
You know, that explanation just might work! Thanks for posting that ;) He only has ever once in 4 years ever admitted I was right lol
please-hit-the-king-ranch-bump
I e-mailed that jacka**....
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Highly unlikely. Rita hasn't reached the Gulf loop yet. At 89 W 26 N, we should see her hit her peak.
New track is very bad news. Hoping for a shift west or south.
I think we have another day of this, or at least half a day. On the current pressure, Avila's the lead forecaster and he may be preferring to go with more conservative figures, because he is like that. It took him forever to admit to the higher winds.
Time to watch.
The NHC is predicting this storm is going over Lagrange! City of fable, song and one bad movie musical....
People are running for their lives, and you're hoping those who lose their homes also have to face $10 a gallon gasoline.
Go to DU or start your own thread. You're in the wrong place on this one.
RS: I think it's immaterial. Because when you get up into winds in excess of 155 miles per hour you have enough damage if that extreme wind sustains itself for as much as six seconds on a building it's going to cause rupturing damages that are serious no matter how well it's engineered. It may only blow the windows out, but on the other hand, it can actually rupture the stairwells, the elevator wells and twist them, and it's happened in many buildings so that you can't even use the elevators after they've experienced this. So I think that it's immaterial what will happen with winds stronger than 156 miles per hour. That's the reason why we didn't try to go any higher than that anyway.
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That's why there ain't no CAT 6...cause at 155 mph, it really doesn't matter anymore.....
http://www.novalynx.com/simpson-interview.html
As a hurricane weakens, the level of hurricane force winds decreases as well. Since the graph shows her coming down the the lower band of Cat 1, I wouldn't bet that Dallas will see hurricane force winds. But it's always a good idea to prepare. The big worry that I would fear for the Dallas area isn't the winds, but the possibility that Rita will stall out at that point and cause flash flooding.
Just let me know if you want to go to the home out on the range. :-)
Judge N says you can't be forced out of your home without a warrant so mandatory evacuation is not really mandatory.
You have the right to stand in harms way. Self-determination even in the event of extreme danger.
I heard of Honore casing them for thinking with their feelings. lol
Did he get on them again? And who would be crazy enough to go to the CC again anyway?
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