Hurricane Dean Live Thread [Now Cat 4]

NOAA/NWS ^ | August 16 2007 | NOAA/NWS

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane warnings have been issued for Dominica and St. Lucia as Hurricane Dean races westward into the Caribbean Sea at 24mph. This motion should bring the center of Dean near the Lesser Antilles on Friday. The increased forward speed of the storm has lessened preparation time for Caribbean Islands in its path. Hurricane Dean has favorable conditions to develop into a major hurricane over the next several days.

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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

[Pebcak]

I’ll hold the fort up here, as long as Verizon stays up, and post when the crazed canine says ‘Yay’ or ‘Nay.’

Don’t forget to buy paper plates.

[CindyDawg]

Mine gets cut and marked too:’)

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

HEADING >>> Now Due West,,,Turned or Wobble ??

[Pebcak]

Ter-wobble.

[SouthTexas]

It did seem to shift or wobble to a more northerly track earlier. This bother me until I saw an overlay on a WX site that showed the shift was back to the forecast track.

May have even gotten a new eyeball when it went under Puerto Rico. :)

[SouthTexas]

bother=bothered

[harwood]

Jamaican radio: All persons living in Shantytown should begin evacuating NOW

http://www.go-jamaica.com/power/

[silentknight]

Amazing coverage of all of this at this site

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showforum=15

Meteorologists and others...lot of commentary and information from Jamaica.

[DrewsMum]

how do you get the “wireless mobile”????

[Dysart]

Look at the size of that...very graphic. And a perfectly formed eye. Thanks for posting.

[CindyDawg]

We have been thinking about going wireless.

[nwctwx]

Should find out this is a cat 5 this evening. Hispaniola (and air coming off the mountains) seems to be affecting very minimally if at all so far.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Lat~16 Lon~71 Now,,,we’ll see how long this lasts...

Still Due West...

[shield]

Boy, Dean is one bad lookin' cane.

[blam]

Hey Timeout.

"So turn off the main until you can manually turn it back on with you there to monitor it."

Also, if you evacuate, turn of the 'city' water at the street before you leave.

[blam]

It’s seems that one of these tracks always heads for Mobile at some point.

[harwood]

GDFL 18Z run now in agreement with other models; Mexico landfall

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/gfdltc2.cgi?time=2007081812-dean04l&field=Sea+Level+Pressure&hour=Animation

[nwctwx]

6 Image IR Loop Grab, ending 2245z 8/18

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I keep hearing that there no winds aloft and nothing much
to steer it at this point,,,CAT-5 soon...

[Tuxedo]

not sure if we in Texas can breathe easier yet...