Tropical Storm Public Advisory
Statement as of 4:00 PM CDT on September 02, 2011
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...Tropical Storm Lee drifting northward toward the southern
Louisiana coast...squalls with heavy rain and gusty winds spreading
inland across much of southeastern and south-central Louisiana...
summary of 400 PM CDT...2100 UTC...information
watches and warnings
none
summary of watches and warnings in effect...
a Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Pascagoula Mississippi westward to Sabine Pass Texas...including
the city of New Orleans...Lake Pontchartrain...and Lake Maurepas
a Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are
expected somewhere within the warning area...in this case within the
next 24 hours.
For storm information specific to your area...including possible
inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by
your local National Weather Service forecast office.
Discussion and 48-hour outlook
Reports from oil rigs and an Air Force Reserve unit reconnaissance
aircraft indicate maximum sustained winds have increased to near 45
mph...75 km/h...with higher gusts. Gradual strengthening is
forecast during the next 48 hours.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 200 miles...325
km...mainly northeast through southeast of the center. A sustained
wind of 60 mph was recently observed on an oil rig located about 65
miles south of the mouth of Mississippi River at an altitude a few
hundred feet above the ocean surface.
The estimated minimum central pressure based on reports from nearby
oil rigs is 1003 mb...29.62 inches.
Hazards affecting land
Storm surge...a storm surge will raise water levels by as much as
2 to 4 feet above ground level along the northern Gulf Coast within
the Tropical Storm Warning area. Elevated water levels are also
possible east of the warning area over coastal portions of Alabama
and the Florida Panhandle resulting in minor coastal flooding
within these areas. See products issued by local National Weather
Service forecast offices for more details.
Wind...tropical storm conditions are expected to first reach the
coast within the warning area this evening...making outside
preparations difficult or dangerous.
Tornadoes...isolated tornadoes are possible tonight over portions of
southern Louisiana and extreme southern Mississippi.
Hope that was just a random glitch somewhere in the grid and not due to the weather.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2011/09/rainfall_in_advance_of_tropica.html
Rainfall in advance of Tropical Storm Lee forces road closures in Lacombe
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2011/09/tropical_storm_lee_prompts_tor.html
Tropical Storm Lee prompts tornado warnings for much of the New Orleans area this morning
Published: Saturday, September 03, 2011, 6:26 AM Updated: Saturday, September 03, 2011, 6:30 AM
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune
Much of the New Orleans area is under a tornado warning this morning, as rainbands from approaching Tropical Storm Lee has produced a series of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes, the National Weather Service said.
Individual warnings still in effect cover western St. Bernard, northwestern Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. Charles, and Central Lafourche parishes and southwestern New Orleans; northern St. Tammany and south central Washington parishes; and northern St. John, Livingston and southern Tangipahoa parishes.
Meteorologists detected a tornado near Chalmette at 5:51 a.m. moving northwest at 50 mph; another 12 miles north of LaPlace moving northwest at 35 mph at 5:55 a.m.; and a third possible tornado near Kiln, Miss., at 6:14 a.m.
Numerous additional tornado warnings have been issued overnight. In Metairie, the Jefferson Parish emergency alert system called registered homeowners at about 5:25 a.m. about one such report.
Most of these possible tornadoes are embedded in heavy rainfall, and may not be readily visible.