Tropical Storm Dolly

NOAA/NHC ^ | 20 July 2008 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Newly formed Tropical Storm Dolly over the NW Caribbean Sea near 18.4N 84.2W. 1008 MB at 11AM this morning. Max sustained winds 40KT, gusts 50KT, moving NW at 15KT.

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[CindyDawg]

I’m in Port Brownsville. I’m about 19 miles from SPI. So far what I see reported there is about what I’m seeing here.

[NautiNurse]

Plenty of open eyewall now. FOX News reporting more roof damage occurring on So. Padre Island.

[txhurl]

Well, jink on past Cindy and up to me!

[prairiebreeze]

Hi ya, Pebcak. Our property is on the high ground. We do plan to take off Saturday on a short trip up-state. As long as we can get out of the park I think we’ll be OK.

(she says....)

:^)

[CindyDawg]

Want me to put on a pot of spaghetti.?

[steveegg]

I need to call it a morning; I’ll likely be back sometime before landfall.

[CindyDawg]

You asked me about winds earlier. I told you NE. The guy on the weather channel is freporting NW???? How is it west? West is toward Mexico which are the way the clouds are going.

[NautiNurse]

As close as you are to the storm center now, it could be either from NE, N or NW at this point in relatively close proximity.

[NautiNurse]

Port Isabel appears to be parallel with the south end of the eyewall now. It’s going to be close if Dolly continues creeping NW.

[CindyDawg]

Yeah, we may have some water ptoblems but it looks like we may have dodged another. If she will go up just a little more she can come into an unpopulated area.

[eastforker]

Looks like the eye may have reformed just east of original, what do ya think?

[Rightly Biased]

Looks like it to me on the Corpus Radar

[eastforker]

Dolly reminds me of some chick in a horror film, she defies everyone and won’t do as she’s told!LOL

[NautiNurse]

[NautiNurse]

I don’t believe the eyewall moved east. The outer eyewall is over land now.

[Rightly Biased]

Lyons said there is a trough to the north slowin her down.

I can see here stalling over SoTex and dumping a lot of rain.

either that or crawlin up the coast looking for an in door

I hope not the latter.

[eastforker]

Check your brownsville radar.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

TANKS,NN,,,catchin’ up...

[Rightly Biased]

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=CRP&loop=yes

this link shows an eye, just east of P.I.

[NautiNurse]

There is a difference between the eye and the eyewall. The eyewall is where the worst weather occurs. The eye is calm.