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Update: Category 5 Hurricane Rita - Live Thread, Part II
NHC - NOAA ^ | 21 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

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.

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

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

Images:

Storm Floater IR Loop
GOM WV Loop
GOM IR Still Image
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Key West Long Range Radar Still Image

Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)

KHOU-TV/DT Houston: mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_khou
WWLTV NOLA

Additional Resources:

Coastal TX Evacuation Maps
KHOU Houston
KTRK ABC News Houston
Hurricane City
Wxnation Houston

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; katrinassister; rita; tropical; twinhurricanes
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To: RDTF

Copy that! :-)


461 posted on 09/21/2005 6:39:02 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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To: Hoodlum91

We have tens of thousands showing up for a pro troops weekend. I don't want Cindy to get coverage, but I'd hate for us to lose it too.


462 posted on 09/21/2005 6:39:09 AM PDT by RDTF
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To: wolfcreek

Austin City Limits is filming in Austin this weekend, so even before Rita, hotel rooms there were hard to come by. We're headed there, but staying with friends.


463 posted on 09/21/2005 6:39:10 AM PDT by nepdap ((Quail Valley, Missouri City, southwest of Houston -- around the corner from Xenalyte's parents))
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To: Rebelbase
Isn't that what the 19something Galveston storm did, or close to it?

The 1900 Galveston hurricane hit as a Cat 4, but I don't know if it ever got up to 5.

464 posted on 09/21/2005 6:39:23 AM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: NCC-1701

None.


465 posted on 09/21/2005 6:39:44 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Refugio County)
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To: TexasGunLover
I just hope it's nice soaking rains and not flooding

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.... I'm sorry, but that's really funny. Under normal conditions that's a perfectly reasonable thing to say but LOOK at that monster. It isn't going to give anybody a nice soaking anything.

466 posted on 09/21/2005 6:40:02 AM PDT by johnb838 (Logic and reason are tools of the white oppressor.)
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To: All

Just announced: Fort Bend County ISD has canceled classes for Thursday and Friday


467 posted on 09/21/2005 6:40:18 AM PDT by Rte66 (SW Houston - Meyerland)
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To: NCC-1701
What's the bag limit for looters in Texas?

I believe they fall in the "nuisance" category...no bag limit.

468 posted on 09/21/2005 6:41:07 AM PDT by BoringGuy (Battening down the hatches in Katy)
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To: johnb838
It looks like a buzz saw blade.

I don't think so...yet. The buzz saw look is what an annular hurricane looks like. Hurricane Katrina was an annular hurricane. Hurricane Rita doesn't look like an annular hurricane yet (because it has definite up and down outflow bands), but it is definitely becoming more symmetric.

469 posted on 09/21/2005 6:41:31 AM PDT by burzum (Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.-Adm H Rickover)
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To: RDTF
And I bet Texas knows where most of their sex offenders are too!

Maybe they could be relocated onto Galveston Island for a hurricane party?!

470 posted on 09/21/2005 6:42:02 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: shield; All

Thanks. Found the surge map.

http://www.kfdm.com/hurricane_surgemap.shtml

Also found a great website with tons of info.

Golden Triangle Weather Page

http://www.ih2000.net/ira/bmt-wth.htm


471 posted on 09/21/2005 6:42:05 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Sometimes I just can't see the forest for all the gumps.)
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To: Lazamataz

Have you seen this pic?

http://www.usawx.com/morningvisible745amritasept21y.jpg


472 posted on 09/21/2005 6:42:24 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

WOW!


473 posted on 09/21/2005 6:43:11 AM PDT by RDTF
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To: queenkathy
I'm probably bing dumb here but isn't the fact that the Levees broke the main reason it was so bad in LA? Didn't they say they were going to be ok and then when the levees broke they got flooded.

That's true. Mississippi bore the brunt of the wind/storm surge damage.

For a look at what that was, take a look at the link below. Click on any of the boxes and a new page will appear with a number of smaller boxes. Clicking on any of those displays "after" aerial photos. The Mississippi coast was devastated:

Katrina Destruction

474 posted on 09/21/2005 6:43:16 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Home is I45 S, just south of Beltway 8 in Houston ... I'm outta here ...)
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To: queenkathy

Look at Missisipi....

Complete structural failure of buildings 40-50 miles inland.....

Houston is only 40-50 miles inland from Galveston....Rita will be bigger/powerful than Katrina......

NeverGore :^(


475 posted on 09/21/2005 6:43:52 AM PDT by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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To: diverteach

I don't know...but their not in Houston any longer...they took flights throughout the country...most went to Arkansas. Some griping their heads off about being an evacuee again...others were pretty civil...I thought what thankless bunch of people. There getting a free flight by a commerical airline at the governments expense [taypayer]...LOL..


476 posted on 09/21/2005 6:44:39 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: laz

For quite a few years now here in Houston we've been knowing we're over due for a hurricane. Our average has been one every 8 years or so, not necessarily a bad one, but a hurricane in the neighborhood. Why did it have to be a storm of the century??? Why did there have to be poetic justice?

(Of course let us all remember the words of Algore: This is but the first sip, the first taste of the bitter cup that is being proffered to us by climate change which THIS administration has ignored by failing to sign the Kyoto accords.)


477 posted on 09/21/2005 6:44:52 AM PDT by johnb838 (Logic and reason are tools of the white oppressor.)
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To: NautiNurse
Bit of a thought here. Wouldn't it, in the long run, be a good thing if New Orleans got a decent rain out of this?

I've been picturing what I'd be doing if I had to clean up the place and I'd consider hooking up fire hoses to hydrants and just washing everything down to the pumps. A good rain might do the same thing. Or at least get a good start on the parts that are now above water.

478 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:00 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: TomGuy
Look at the positive from the NO fiasco, everyone got a trial run on what not to do and also what to do. They also have most of the supplies in place because of taking in the evacuees. Texas also has more time to be skeered to action. Rita has bombed earlier than Katrina did. Not only that, Texas has a competent governor who just happens to be a republican and not a DUmmy.

It's not about politics but leadership. The dingbat gov was politicizing when she should have been leading. I think it will put put another nail in shrillary's presidential coffin. We can only pray that anyway. Who we vote for matters in situations like these. Can you just imagine how bad it would be with sKerry at the helm. :::major shutters:::
479 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:05 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: tx_eggman

have they identified exactly what caused the levees to break? I thought storm surge had a lot to do with it.


480 posted on 09/21/2005 6:45:07 AM PDT by RDTF
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