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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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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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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
funny how everyone ignored your post, and you posted it twice!
Presidential Prayer Team Urges Prayer re path of hurricane "Rita." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488886/posts
After all of the discussion here following Katrina, I just read 'Alas Babylon'. Stolen car? That's just the beginning.
Not sure what (of the many) books about the Holocaust I read that in, but for me it had a profound message: when disaster is staring you in the face, let go of the piano!
Red Fish Cove, where Stratergist said the 1900 Galveston storm made landfall, is at the extreme SW end of Galveston Island, or about 58.7 miles NE of where Rita is currently projected to coma ashore.
I don't expect major weakening. Final track is still a bit of a guess.
Blam, do you know if I-10 is passable down to Gulf Shores? My parents have a condo on Ft. Morgan Road and I'm thinking maybe we could head that way, but I don't know if we could make it from Houston.
Must...try...not...to...rant...
Ms. Lee really needs to zip it regarding the equity of hurricane names.
There's a black lady in my community named Katrina, for example.
Even though my daughter's classroom is full of kids with unpronounceable multi-consonant and apostrophe-laden names that defy every conceivable rule of English grammar (just like this run-on-sentence, LOL) and read like the cast members of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" it still isn't fair to invoke that old SNL "Queen Shaniqua" stereotype.
Though, come to think of it, the hurricane naming committee could readily obtain more than a few "Q", "X" and "Z" suggestions from our local birth registrar...
re: Honore-
p.s. here is the latest tape of him saying that! Terrific
http://thepoliticalteen.com/video/stuckonstupid2.wmv
They are now. You can't get out of town tonight. Complete gridlock and the stores are bare. Lines at the gas stations 20 cars deep.
Just remember that this was a tropical storm east of the Florida Keys on Monday morning when we went to work.
Local news saying Cat 4 at landfall sometime between midnight and daybreak Saturday, Freeport Texas most likely.
60 FOOT WAVES
HURRICANE WARNING...
.TONIGHT...W OF 94W N TO NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...INCREASING 15 TO
20 KT BY MORNING. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT BUILDING 4 TO 8 FT IN SE SWELL
BY MORNING. E OF 94W N TO NE WINDS 20 TO 25 KT...INCREASING TO
TROPICAL STORM FORCE BY MORNING. SEAS 5 TO 9 FT...BUILDING TO 8
TO 16 FT IN SE SWELL BY MORNING. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
TSTMS E OF 92W....SPREADING W.
.THU AND THU NIGHT...TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS OR GREATER
WITHIN 150 NM NE QUADRANT...175 NM NE QUADRANT...150 NM NW AND SE
QUADRANTS AND 125 NM SW QUADRANT. HIGHEST WINDS 145 KT GUSTS 175
KT NEAR CENTER OF RITA BECOMING 135 KT GUSTS 165 KT THU NIGHT.
HIGHEST SEAS 60 FT. REMAINDER AREA WINDS 20 TO 33 KT. SEAS 6 TO
9 FT...BUILDING 8 TO 15 FT. SQUALLS INCREASING E OF 95W.
.FRI AND FRI NIGHT...TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS OR GREATER
WITHIN 175 NM NE QUADRANT...150 NM SE AND NW QUADRANT AND 125 NM
SW QUADRANT. HIGHEST WINDS 125 KT GUSTS 155 KT NEAR CENTER OF
RITA. HIGHEST SEAS 55 FT. ELSEWHERE WINDS 20 TO 33 KT. SEAS 8 TO
14 FT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SQUALLS ENTIRE AREA.
.SAT...W OF 94W HURRICANE CONDITIONS EXPECTED EARLY. ELSEWHERE
SLY WINDS 20 TO 33 KT. SEAS 8 TO 14 FT....SUBSIDING 6 TO 10 FT
LATE. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SQUALLS W OF 94W...MOVING W OF AREA
LATE.
.SUN...N OF 27N W OF 94W SLY WINDS 20 TO 25 KT. SEAS 8 TO 12 FT
IN LINGERING SWELL...SUBSIDING TO 6 TO 8 FT. ELSEWHERE
SE TO S WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 4 TO 6 FT. WIDELY SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND TSTMS.
.MON...SE TO S WINDS 15 TO OCCASIONALLY 20 KT. SEAS 4 TO 6 FT.
Holy crap. look at the map someone just posted. I was in an area that is showing as cat 4-5 for this storm back when alicia hit. All we got was tornadoes and some flooding back then. It seems to me that some of these places in south houston could get leveled depending on how the storm hits.
Galveston got itself a good seawall after 1900. People are more weather-wise right now. And I don't think anyone really knows how strong the wind got in 1900, since it blew all the instruments away. IIRC there was a full moon when the hurricane struck in 1900---and too dark to see, when the storm reached its full fury. Eye passed just southwest of Galveston, and storm surge was around 5 pm. Lots of relatively ignorant Labor Day holiday tourists around, and weather forecasting was primitive too. They had had one bad hurricane before, I think in the 1870's, but most of the people just never expected anything as bad as they got.
Whew. God bless you and your wife, Dog Gone. Prayers...
Yes, a lot will depend on how fast this thing goes too.
Somebody just called into Hewitt's show and reported that Houston is now worried about a storm surge as far n. as Clearlake and Pasedena!
Your wife is a dedicated nurse.........doing what her profession demands. Kudos to her.
Part III here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488924/posts
Yea, and?
How are we stretched?
I asked you first.
You have got to be kidding me??
No, I'm quite serious. What assets are we short that China would see as an opportunity to strike Taiwan?
Bless you both. Hunker down and stay safe!
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