Posted on 09/02/2019 7:50:54 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Catestrophic Hurricane Dorian was assigned Category 5 status by the NHC Sunday, September 1 at 0800. Since then Hurricane Dorian reached maximum sustained winds of 185 MPH, with gusts exceeding 220 MPH, and storm surge 18-23 feet above normal tide levels as it made landfall across Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. Dorian became the strongest hurricane in modern records for the Northwestern Bahamas.
Dorian has wrought extreme wind and flood damage to Abacos and Grand Bahama Island as it crawled slowly across the Northern Bahamas.
All interests along the Atlantic coast should continue monitoring conditions and forecasts as powerful Hurricane Dorian moves very close to the US coastline. Evacuation orders have been issued for many Atlantic coastal communities in the Southeast US. Evacuations include multiple hospitals and nursing homes along the coast with anticipated dangerous storm surge and battering waves.
Wind speed is expected to weaken and fluctuate in the coming days as the storm moves northward.
Satellite Imagery Dorian
NHC Public Advisories
NHC Discussions
Florida Radar Loop (with storm track overlay)
Buoy Data with Storm Track overlay
Previous thread: Hurricane Dorian Live Thread
Im getting my info from a Naval Base that I work on. Tropicalatlantic.com is a good site to get real time data though. Not denying this storm wasn’t historic. For the Bahamas it was and at one time max sustained winds were near 185 but the monster died 36 hours ago. Now it just a regular ol ragged nuisance Hurricane and the TV coverage is farcical
The last satellite video I saw appeared to show the eye of the storm falling apart. Can anyone confirm that? Is Dorian winding down?
From Morgerman:
Yep, I’m alive. Made it to Nassau. #Hurricane #DORIAN: By far the most intense cyclone I’ve witnessed in 28 years of chasing. Thought I was playing it safe by riding it out in a solid-concrete school on a hill in Marsh Harbour. Thought wrong.
Winds pounded the building with the force of a thousand sledgehammers. Crept out during eye to find school mostly destroyed, cars in parking lot thrown around & mutilated. Barometer said 913.4 mb.
Frantically piled into few functioning cars (one of them mine) & relocated to government complex before backside struck. Building filled with terrorized refugees, many who had swam to safety or abandoned collapsed houses. The calm eye saved lives—gave victims chance to relocate.
Whole neighborhoods were swept by mighty surge higher than anything in memory. Areas above water had catastrophic wind damage. Many deaths reported from drowning, flying debris, & collapsing houses. Medical clinic overwhelmed. An absolute catastrophe. SEND HELP TO ABACO ISLANDS.
Grand Bahama took one for Florida. But holy cow. One of thses could park 10 miles off the Florida coast and stall for days.
Tough job, but somebody's gotta do it ! ;-)
Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet ordered all U.S. Navy ships and aircraft in the Hampton Roads area to be prepared to transit to safety within 24 hours, if necessary, as a precautionary measure due to the approach of Hurricane Dorian, thereby setting Sortie Condition Bravo./
Are you reading anything that very skilled meteorologists have been posting all over twitter? Just because things are okay in some small area of Florida, the entire southeast Atlantic coast is under significant threat at the moment. This has nothing to do with windspeed and/or landfall, and everything to do with the size of the storm, its wind field, and storm surge.
Look for yourself.
https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us/fl/key-west/mlb
Huge energy loading from the north side. New, hot water that hasn’t been convected.
The bitch is coming back.
see post # 489.
It may be a long night with multiple tornado warnings.
Wow! Just wow.
More backfire for Clearly Not News.
22:10Z. Last few frames show eyewall reforming.
Astounding video. That storm is huge.
Sigh, that was Irma again and again two years ago. Surprised I’m not traumatized from the constant blaring of the warning alerts on TV and radio.
Problem is that many of their employees have evacuated.
Doubtful. The only areas being evacuated are adjacent to the ocean and river. Traffic was very sparse the past few days. I would guess nearly everybody has not evacuated outside of the beach areas in my area.
Use this IR loop through the night. It has near-real time updating.
Looks like the eyewall has started to rebuild beginning in the NW via strong inflow from the north and west (gulf stream).
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=05L&product=vis-swir
Not denying this storm wasn’t historic. For the Bahamas it was and at one time max sustained winds were near 185 but the monster died 36 hours ago. Now it just a regular ol ragged nuisance Hurricane and the TV coverage is farcical
I am looking out my window in the Jax area right now and there is literally no breeze. I’m 10 miles from the beach. Not a branch moving in my trees.
Good link .. that thing is definitely *still* a monster !
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