That outbound wind (usually not reported) is U-G-L-Y with a capital "Y".
She's going to be a biggy tomorrow, no doubt. I think we see cat 4, maybe high 4, as a likely strength before entering the GOM. That region has really cooked up some monsters this season. We focus on the two cat 5s we've seen, which is amazing for one year... but, we were pretty darn close to having 2 more cat 5s down there pretty early in the season.
Almost as interesting is how she will interact with the trough that is coming to pick her up.
I'm kind of looking forward to Alpha... we've made it this far. ;-)