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Posted on 09/23/2005 9:39:06 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Dangerous Hurricane Rita is expected to make landfall in the northeast Gulf of Mexico within 24 hours. Tornados have spawned in Louisiana. Water is filling the Ninth Ward of New Orleans again. A bus carrying elderly evacuees was gutted by fire this morning outside Dallas, with multiple fatalities. Television crews have positioned their hurricane reporters throughout the region to attain maximum drama effects. Whoooooa.
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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 V
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part III
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Rita Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm Rita
Tropical Depression 18
Wow.
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latest Rita news ping
Honore as press secretary. I like it! That White House press corps needs a good disciplinarian. They're terrible!
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Nice to have you with us. After the storm is gone, stick around & visit the threads (we do a "little bit" more here than weather coverage!)
the nws radar last frame seems to show the eye not perfectly round anymore...
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/lix_N0Z_lp.shtml
Puh-leeze.
Floyd "fizzled" to a Cat 2 at landfall.
Still caused 4.6 billion in damage and killed 56 people.
Rita will still cause major storm surge along the coast and the inland flooding could well be worse than what we saw with Floyd.
And if Rita had remained a strong Cat 4, it would have killed just about anyone remaining along the coast.
It LOOKS like her eye is closed. But I dont see it moving due north like somebody else said.
The Walmart on 75 in North Dallas is selling out of two things - drinking water and shotgun shells.
Local Krogers are selling water as fast as they can restock it.
I was skimming the thread..thought it read so far 4' in my garage...Whew!!!!
I think the NHC has been saying for a few days that Rita may be downgraded to a Category 3 before landfall.
The due north I think may be a wobble, counting on what I saw last on satellite loop, but it seems to be sucking in a lot of dry air...but at the same time, the se is doing beautiful...she's going to carry a lot of umph still when she goes in.
36hrs ago she was a CAT5 with 175MPH winds and no apparent shear headed for the Central Texas coast. She was Katrina part 2 in every sense of the word. She had pressure reading down near Gilbert range. Hurricanes aren't an exact science by any measure.
Go to www.weather.com and type in the city you want.
Just below it is an hour by hour forecast.
That should tell you what you need to know.
There were several folks on the earlier threads praying, and speculating that this thing would go up to LA and fizzle. Don't remember exactly who. You can bet yer sweet bippy they will re-appear if this hits LA at trop storm strenght or less!
That reporter was David Gregory of NBC per Rush Limbaugh who is playing it right now.
We need to start chanting 'fall apart, fall apart'
I'm looking at the radar link on post 14; to my totally untutored eye, it looks like half the hurricane is gone; south/southeast of the eye, I see nothing but blue (clear sky?). It lools like half a hurricane, not the huge round swirl we've been seeing for four days.
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