Hurricane Wilma Live Thread, Part III (TS Alpha gets honorable mention too)

NHC - NOAA ^ | 22 October 2005 | NHC - NOAA

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Wilma slowly drifts toward the Southeast Gulf of Mexico after relentlessly pounding Cozumel and Cancun for more than 24 hours. Early reports indicate extensive wind and flood damage to Mexico's resort-studded Mayan Riviera. Mexican officials said about 20,000 tourists were at shelters and hotels on the mainland south of Cancun and an estimated 10,000-12,000 were in Cancun itself. About 50 hotels were evacuated.

In preparation for Hurricane Wilma's anticipated Florida landfall, a Hurricane Watch and mandatory evacuation have been issued for the Florida Keys and Florida Bay. Mandatory evacuations for Marco Island and much of Naples are in effect, as well as high surf advisories and high risk of rip currents along Florida's panhandle and Big Bend coasts. Bus services are available for Monroe Co. and other counties for residents who do not have transportation. Additional storm watches for the Florida peninsula are expected later today.

The 2005 hurricane season altered the record books again today with the formation of Tropical Storm Alpha south of Hispanola. Preliminary forecasts indicate TS Alpha will not affect the U.S. mainland.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 0500, 0800, 1100 etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 0500, 1100, 1700, 2300 ET
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track

Wilma Forecast Track Archive
Forecast Models
Buoy Data SE Florida
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Florida
Florida Department of Emergency Management

Images:

Storm Floater IR Loop
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Florida Radar/Sat Loop Caution: Broadband users only
Extra Large Miami Radar Broadband only
Extra Large Key West Radar Broadband only
Miami Long Range Radar Loop
Key West Long Range Radar Loop
Miami Experimental Radar Still Image
Key West Experimental Radar Still Image

Streaming Video:

WBBH-TV/WZVN-TV Ft. Myers (WMP): http://waterbc.wm.llnwd.net/waterbc_netvideo
WESH-TV/DT Orlando/Daytona Beach (RP): http://mfile.akamai.com/7883/live/reflector:24028.ram
WFTV-TV/DT Orlando (RP): http://mfile.akamai.com/7883/live/reflector:20361.ram
WKMG-TV/DT Orlando (RP): http://mfile.akamai.com/7883/live/reflector:23942.ram
WPBF-TV/DT West Palm Beach (RP): http://mfile.akamai.com/7883/live/reflector:24035.ram
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (WMP): http://216.242.118.140/windowsmedia/asx/wsvn_broadband.asx
WTVJ-TV/DT Miami: http://nbc6.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=381015
WPLG-TV/DT Miami (RP): http://mfile.akamai.com/8660/live/reflector:23941.ram
WFOR-TV/DT Miami (WMP): http://wfor.dayport.com/viewer/content/special.php?Art_ID=612&Format_ID=2&BitRate_ID=8&Contract_ID=2&Obj_ID={obj_id}
WTSP-TV/DT St. Petersburg/Tampa (WMP): mms://wmbcast.gannett.speedera.net/wmbcast.gannett/wmbcast_gannett_sep252004_1915_64623
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm

Additional Resources:

Pet Friendly Florida Shelter Info
Central Florida Hurricane Center
Hurricane City
CrownWeather.com

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 Wilma Part II
Hurricane Wilma Live Thread
Tropical Storm Wilma
Tropical Depression #24

[sissyjane]

What happened to NautiNurse?? Is she hust at work tonight?? Anyone??

[Howlin]

She's taking a break for a couple of hours.

Which I might just do; I'm actually nodding off!

[sissyjane]

Hust= just

[Jrabbit]

Thank you! Interesting....can't take the whole crab body, just a claw. Sounds pretty tedious to me! And the "harvest" season just started.

[laz]

No peepholes. I decided I'd rather not see what's out there until it's over. I'll settle for listening to it, which will be bad enough, I'm sure.

[neutrality]

Nevermind, that error code means wind data should still be accurate

[sissyjane]

Is she at risk?? I've really been away, and have no clue.

[Nita Nupress]

Hey, if you make a big peephole, keep in mind that every time you put your eye up to it, something could come through and hit you. The chances would be very small, but theoretically, it could happen.

[geopyg]

I'm hoping Naples doesn't get the storm surge too bad, but I imagine the winds will be high. My Mom has a condo on the beach (but she's up north at the moment) and said 15 people in the condo bldg. are going to ride it out. The janitor thought her car would be safer under the carport than out in an exposed parking lot on higher ground away from beach.

The parking lot (and building) is only a couple of steps up from the beach. Not sure if it will be enough - the storm surge is estiamted at 2' to 4' in Naples. I told her not to expect her car to be worth anything (1980's big cadillac). She said - oh - won't they be able to fix it up? I said probably not with the salt water. She gets so worked up over the smallest things. But with her car - "Well, it's just a car. Not like thoses folks in Louisiana that lost their homes, jobs, everything". I guess 87 years of experience sheds perspective on things!

Hope its not too bad for her - she heads back down after Christmas. She did say the Condo just put in all new landscaping this year.

[Jrabbit]

Stay safe....hunker down! I'm off for a few hours. Hope everyone gets through this without too much trouble.

[geopyg]

Ft. Meyers is quite a ways north of naples. naples will be worse. so much for my mom's car (parked 2' above and 100' from the beach!)

[Nita Nupress]

No peepholes. I decided I'd rather not see what's out there until it's over.

You won't be sorry. Like I said up the thread, I tortured myself all night. I couldn't stop myself from looking even though I knew it would scare me.... even though I knew it might make me have to go change clothes after peeing all over myself. lol!

[geopyg]

Prayers for her and all the others.

[exhaustedmomma]

LOL!!

Okay... I debated telling you about this... but...

I was watching one of those storm stories on the weather channel one day... and... they had these people who were in Ophelia (I think... some hurricane on the Atlantic). Anyway, they ended being saved because they latched onto a mattress. Mattress' apparently float. I didn't know that, but now I do. I hope you never need that info... but... if you do... you know.

[exhaustedmomma]

what is all that???

[neutrality]

135 kt flight level winds found

[fiesti]

"(here come the guys back with that movie they've been talking about all week... shooot, can't remember the name.)"


I wouldn't mind seeing the old Bogie & Bacall movie Key Largo tonight...Seems appropriate..

[oceanperch]

No quite the oppisite.

What is worrisome is when like last week NOAA issued a Tsunami Alert over TV and Radio and FORGOT to put THIS IS A TEST in the announcement.

Part of the County evacuated before the correction was made.

[montanus]

Hmm, 130kt fl winds found; sounds a bit too high though

That's why they turned around and sampled it again. But the second time, they found 136kt winds.

[steveegg]

One thing I'll say for Bastardi; he's stubborn :-)