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Hurricane Rita Live Thread
NHC - NOAA ^ | 20 September 2005 | NHC - NOAA

Posted on 09/20/2005 6:16:38 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Hurricane Rita is in the Florida Straits, impacting the Florida Keys and South Florida Peninsula. Hurricane watches and warnings are in effect for numerous portions of South Florida. Check local weather statements for updates.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track

Rita Forecast Track Archive
Forecast Models
Buoy Data SE Florida
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Florida

Images:

Storm Floater IR Loop
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Florida Radar/Sat Loop Caution: Broadband users only
Extra Large Miami Radar Broadband only
Extra Large Key West Radar Broadband only
Miami Long Range Radar Loop
Key West Long Range Radar Loop
Miami Experimental Radar Still Image
Key West Experimental Radar Still Image

Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)

WTVJ-TV/DT Miami (NBC6)
WFOR-TV/DT Miami (CBS 4)
WSVN-TV/DT Miami (Fox)

Other Resources:

Florida East Coast Surf Reports Lots of great info here, including surf cams
Central Florida Hurricane Center
Hurricane City

Category Wind Speed Barometric Pressure Storm Surge Damage Potential
Tropical
Depression
< 39 mph
< 34 kts
    Minimal
Tropical
Storm
39 - 73 mph
34 - 63 kts
    Minimal
Hurricane 1
(Weak)
74 - 95 mph
64 - 82 kts
28.94" or more
980.02 mb or more
4.0' - 5.0'
1.2 m - 1.5 m
Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2
(Moderate)
96 - 110 mph
83 - 95 kts
28.50" - 28.93"
965.12 mb - 979.68 mb
6.0' - 8.0'
1.8 m - 2.4 m
Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3
(Strong)
111 - 130 mph
96 - 112 kts
27.91" - 28.49"
945.14 mb - 964.78 mb
9.0' - 12.0'
2.7 m - 3.7 m
Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4
(Very strong)
131 - 155 mph
113 - 135 kts
27.17" - 27.90"
920.08 mb - 944.80 mb
13.0' - 18.0'
3.9 m - 5.5 m
Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5
(Devastating)
Greater than 155 mph
Greater than 135 kts
Less than 27.17"
Less than 920.08 mb
Greater than 18.0'
Greater than 5.5m
Catastrophic building failures possible

Previous Threads:
Tropical Storm Rita
Tropical Depression 18


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: Texas
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To: rodguy911

we will cross our fingers for you. I am on high ground and bayside so flooding isn't a concern in our neighborhood, but we have lots of friends on lower ground who will be holding their breath until high tide passes.

Our big worry is the large tree in our backyard neighbor's yard that littered our yard and our next door neighbor's yard during Katrina. Hopefully if it falls it's on it's owner's house. Homeowner won't respond to requests to prune it so we are going to hatrack it asap. We even offered to pay to have it done nicely but when nice fails take matters into your own hands. It's encroaching on both our yards and we are sick of cleaning it up.


61 posted on 09/20/2005 6:46:35 AM PDT by LBelle
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To: rodguy911

Exactly.

Stay safe:)


62 posted on 09/20/2005 6:46:47 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: rodguy911

Eye seems to be forming rapidly now, after languishing all night.


63 posted on 09/20/2005 6:48:24 AM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: SE Mom

After viewing the sattellite image this morning, I notice the storm is more symmetrical. Yesterday it was more "north-heavy" and now looks to be more organized.

Yikes, Go Away Rita!!!!


64 posted on 09/20/2005 6:49:35 AM PDT by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: laz
Rita is now a Cat 1 and hasn't yet reached where Katrina entered the gulf.

Rita also hoovered a lot of the heat out of the Gulf. As a result, SSTs are not as high as when Rita was bombing out.

However, IMO the difference will not keep Rita from being a very problematic storm - IMO Rita will probably reach peak intensity as a low Cat 4 and make landfall as a Cat 3 - and have a long fetch with which to push surge at wherever she makes landfall.

But that's just my guess.

65 posted on 09/20/2005 6:51:39 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: trillabodilla
After viewing the sattellite image this morning, I notice the storm is more symmetrical. Yesterday it was more "north-heavy" and now looks to be more organized.

Yes. She's a late bloomer, but she seems to be blooming quickly. Looks like she got jump-started over the past hour.

66 posted on 09/20/2005 6:51:57 AM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: laz

Lots of images here

http://www5.wright-weather.com/bb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49127


67 posted on 09/20/2005 6:53:09 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: dfwgator

"Looks at least like DFW could get some rain from Rita. We need it."

On that track we might make up for that 8" deficit in one day.


68 posted on 09/20/2005 6:53:57 AM PDT by No Blue States (FW)
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To: NautiNurse

Buoy SMKF1 29.64 (falling rapidly) 38 kts NNE30true A78.1 W84.9 T2.22ft


69 posted on 09/20/2005 6:54:06 AM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: rodguy911; LBelle

Gas is always cheaper in Key Largo/Islamorada than the Perrine area, where I live. I never can get over it.

Thanks for letting us know what's going on down in the Keys, have some interests there, great to have the reports. Best of luck to you.


70 posted on 09/20/2005 6:54:37 AM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality - Miami)
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To: gpapa

71 posted on 09/20/2005 6:56:35 AM PDT by NautiNurse (The task before us is enormous, but so is the heart of America.)
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To: No Blue States; dfwgator

In June 2001, in Pasadena TX, we got 25" of rain in one night from TS Alison. Becareful on what you wish for you may get it.


72 posted on 09/20/2005 6:56:46 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: Dog Gone
For now, I'm still considering us as a very likely landfall

Well then, quit thinking......... ;^)

73 posted on 09/20/2005 6:56:52 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: silentknight

Check out what the Navy predicts - dead on hit at Palacios


http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/center/Tropical/wtnt02.gif

http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/main.pl?tropical




74 posted on 09/20/2005 6:57:58 AM PDT by RDTF
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To: Dog Gone

Harris County has a nifty little tracking chart. You can view it online or download and install the program. The download version has more features.

http://www.hcfcd.org/hurricanetracker.html#


75 posted on 09/20/2005 7:00:06 AM PDT by hobson
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To: LBelle
I know exactly what you are talking about we have the same problems over her all part of living in the union of Soviet Socialists islands, aka the Keys. Trees, bugs, deer, more important than people.
76 posted on 09/20/2005 7:00:31 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU and all Mosques in the US,UK.)
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To: rodguy911

Jeb is on now.


77 posted on 09/20/2005 7:01:22 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Sam Cree
Gas is always cheaper in Key Largo/Islamorada than the Perrine area, where I live

Perrine? I'm just south of you, in Cutler Ridge. Near Caribbean Blvd. and the turnpike.

78 posted on 09/20/2005 7:01:31 AM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: RDTF

Hmmm...right about where Claudette went in in '03.


79 posted on 09/20/2005 7:01:48 AM PDT by Chasaway (North Padre Island, Texas)
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To: james_f_hall
Well if you're being technical, nobody but God knows this, but the forecasters are all saying the conditions do not favor a Cat 4 or 5 storm.
80 posted on 09/20/2005 7:02:44 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (( ))
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