Monday, August 29, 2005

was this warranted?

there's a hurricane warning in effect for the entire region. there have been dire warnings posted for a while now, such as the one i put on here yesterday.

and then this morning comes this:


BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
725 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR THE EYEWALL OF HURRICANE KATRINA FOR...
  ST. TAMMANY PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
  HANCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WAVELAND...DIAMONDHEAD...BAY ST.
  LOUIS
  HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LONG BEACH...GULFPORT

* UNTIL 930 AM CDT

* AT 725 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HURRICANE KATRINA EYEWALL APPROACHING THE
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF ST. TAMMANY...HANCOCK...AND HARRISON COUNTIES.

* THE ONSET OF DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WITH GUSTS OF 100 TO 120 MPH WILL
BEGIN SOON. THESE DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WILL PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE SIMILAR
TO A TORNADO. SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
AND REMAIN IN YOUR SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE EYEWALL PASSES.

LAT...LON 3010 8962 3029 8899 3059 8905 3045 8990


so what do you think?

posted by Dave "storm structure" Carlsen @ 9:00 AM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 12:40 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey guys,

What a wild storm! Stayed up
all night watching this sucker
on satellite, radar and "CNN". Very
impressive seeing mother nature
unleash her fury.

Based on this summers lessons...

I believe the tornado warnings and
watches are very warranted. We have
our four tornadic elements. A trigger (intense boundaries), lots of wind shear (directional and speed), plenty of moisture (swamp country), and a whole lot of instability. What makes things more interesting is that some of these cells are moving at 60-90 miles and hour accourding to some news sources. I think tornadoes will
play a larger role as this hurricane makes it further inland. They probably will mostly be f0-f1s.

Thats my two cents, open to other
ideas. Either way a "hurricane
chasing" course would sound
like fun too ;)

Web page and CDs almost ready
by the way.

Take care,
Peter

 

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