Posted on 08/25/2020 5:35:03 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Laura emerged from the Caribbean Sea, leaving behind flooding and fatalities in Hispaniola and Cuba. Former Hurricane Marco dissipated Tuesday morning, a few hours before Laura strengthened to a hurricane.
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500 PM EDT Update
Location...About 155 MI SSE of Lake Charles LA
...About 155 MI S of Galveston TX
Max Sustained Winds...145 MPH
Moving...NW at 15 MPH
Minimum Pressure...947 MB
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles from the center
and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles
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urricane Laura Discussion Number 28
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL132020
400 PM CDT Wed Aug 26 2020
Laura has continued to rapidly strengthen today with recent
visible satellite imagery revealing a very distinct 25 nautical-
mile-wide eye embedded in a symmetric central dense overcast. The
upper-level outflow has also become well established in all
quadrants. An Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft that
is still investigating the hurricane has reported peak 700-mb
flight-level winds of 136 kt and SFMR winds of 121 kt in the
northeast eyewall. These data support an initial intensity of
125 kt, which is an increase of 55 kt over the past 24 hours. The
minimum pressure has fallen to around 947 mb. The well-defined eye
is now within range of the NWS Lake Charles WSR-88D radar, and
hourly Tropical Cyclone Updates began at 1900 UTC (2 PM CDT) and
will continue through landfall and beyond overnight.
Laura still has about 12 hours remaining over the warm waters of the
northwest Gulf of Mexico waters, but increasing southwesterly shear
around the time of landfall and the possibility of an eyewall
replacement could result in some fluctuations in intensity this
evening, but Laura is expected to remain an extremely dangerous
category 4 hurricane through landfall tonight. Although rapid
weakening is expected on Thursday as Laura moves inland, the
hurricane is expected to bring a swath of damaging winds well inland
over western Louisiana and extreme eastern Texas. The cyclone or
its remnants are forecast to move off Mid-Atlantic coast over the
weekend and there remains some possibility that Laura will
re-intensify as a tropical cyclone offshore of the United States
east before it merges with a frontal boundary later in the forecast
period.
Recent satellite and aircraft fixes show that Laura is moving
northwestward at about 13 kt. Laura is nearing the western extent
of a mid-level ridge that is located over the southeastern United
States. The hurricane should turn north-northwestward this evening
and northward on Thursday between the ridge and a weak trough over
the south-central United States. By Friday the cyclone should turn
northeastward and then east-northeastward as it becomes embedded in
the mid-latitude westerlies. The track model guidance continues to
be in good agreement through 72, but there are some forward speed
differences thereafter. The new NHC track is very close to the
previous advisory and is near the middle of the guidance envelope.
Laura is a large hurricane and users are reminded to not focus on
the precise track forecast since wind, storm surge, and rainfall
hazards extend far from the center.
INIT 26/2100Z 27.9N 92.8W 125 KT 145 MPH
12H 27/0600Z 29.7N 93.6W 130 KT 150 MPH
Many, many tornadoes...
The National Weather Service in New Orleans has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Northeastern St. John The Baptist Parish in southeastern
Louisiana...
Southwestern Tangipahoa Parish in southeastern Louisiana...
* Until 430 PM CDT.
That happened to a stubborn, elderly family member. The police were going door to door taking names and asking for identifiable attributes. He got the message and packed his bag.
Not bad advice. Remember that Texas is a BIG place. (It's farther from El Paso to LA than it is from my home to El Paso.)
I'm right on the LA-ARK border; anyone who heads,say, 100 miles west of here will probably see near-zero effects from Laura.
Where are they starting from?
TXnMA
Prayers for safe journey..
Just saw Texas has sent 2 C-130’s to Port Arthur to help evac.
This will be a very big disaster. Perhaps not as many people as Katrina but Port Arthur, TX and all of SW Louisiana are going to be wiped devastated to a large extent in my humble opinion. This is a worst case surge + flash flood event.
Trump and the pubbies should announce they are concluding the convention with only major events needed tomorrow to (1) deal with Laura and (2) organize support for collapsing cities in peril from leftists.
FPL has dispatched 300 line workers to assist.
https://twitter.com/LUMCONscience/with_replies
Good to follow perhaps. JIC it hasn’t been posted yet.
Oh lordy that’s awful- didn’t they hear about the storm surge? The winds are one thing. The surge? Hell.
I can’t believe it but NHC upped surge potential to 40 miles inland. Katrina was 6. People need to get out NOW. This is serious. Lake Charles elevation is about 7’.
Damn.
What is a C-130?
Perhaps people will pay attention and get out, if Looting is declared unsafe, and not to do anything until Shemp Smith and Whorealdo arrive in the area to report/S
Trump has as many supporters in Lake Charles, La as ANY place in the US. Don’t worry too much about bad press from this area.
Big-assed military cargo plane.
Good to know! May God protect all who serve ..
Oh please God, YES! East of Lake Charles is 100% the least damaging place this storm could go.
They're about to be reminded just how unimportant COVID really is.
You haven't convinced the LA Governor.
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