MikeC
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Dennis has made landfall as a minimal Category 3 storm, between Navarre Beach and Pensacola Beach, it is moving inland now and weakening rapidly. Strong gusty winds, some to hurricane strength may still be felt miles inland.
The landfall time was at 2:25PM CDT. There was a gust to 121 miles an hour recorded at a monitoring tower at Navarre Beach. Damage reports are sparse now, but we may get some before the night falls. The worst was to the east of the landfall point.
The National Hurricane Center predicted landfall position almost dead on, intensity wasn't too far off. Luckily the storm was in the middle of an eyewall replacement when it made landfall, which kept it from going back into strong 3 status. Similar to , but slightly stronger than , the core was smaller than however. Intensity was off, and in Florida's favor.
Aparantly and thankfully dry air managed to sap the system and distrupt during the eyewall replacement cycle. This weakened almost as rapidly as it strengthened yesterday.
The possibility was mentioned, but not entirely expected.
The wave in the Central Atlantic may become TD#5 in the next few days, potentially as early as late tonight.
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Nate
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Anyone have a nice radar link for the central and easter atlantic, and the africa coast?
Thanks
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stormchazer
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This is a cool site Nate.
University of Wisconsin
Satellite though!
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Edited by stormchazer (Sun Jul 10 2005 05:18 PM)
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Nate
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Thanks looks great.
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Kal
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Initial reports...keep in mind that these aren't first-hand...are that the Fort Walton Beach/Mary Esther area fared somewhat better than they did during . However, I think that to some degree this may be misleading. After all, basically stripped the older trees and structures just ten months ago, so I think that it's fair to say that potential projectiles were much fewer (relatively speaking) this time around. Had missed this area last year, the effects of would probably have been much worse. No word on storm surge in the area.
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Nate
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Ill say this again.. HURRICANECITY Just mentioned it.. When this thing hit, it was not a CAT 3 OR 4.
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Lysis
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Had missed this area last year, the effects of would probably have been much worse.
Exactly... for example, if a storm of the same exact intensity as were to hit here, I think the damage would be far less. For one, everything weak or unable to withstand extreme winds is already leveled. Secondly, what was repaired was done so to more rigorous code, and lastly, people are going to prepare for the storm much more effectively.
Ill say this again.. HURRICANECITY Just mentioned it.. When this thing hit, it was not a CAT 3 OR 4.
What do you mean?
EDIT: heh... exactly, Keith.
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Keith234
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An example of natural selection only with buildings and hurricanes!
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erauwx
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Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
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ABNT20 KNHC 102106
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
530 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
THE National Hurricane Center IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON HURRICANE
DENNIS...LOCATED INLAND ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA
OR NEAR MOLINO FLORIDA.
A VIGOROUS TROPICAL WAVE ...ACCOMPANIED BY A WELL-DEFINED LOW
PRESSURE AREA...IS LOCATED ABOUT 1180 MILES EAST OF THE SOUTHERN
LESSER ANTILLES. THIS SYSTEM HAS CONTINUED TO BECOME BETTER
ORGANIZED...AND CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A TROPICAL DEPRESSION
TO DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT OR ON MONDAY AS IT MOVES WESTWARD AT 10 TO
15 MPH.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL STORM FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY.
FORECASTER STEWART
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- here we go .....
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GuppieGrouper
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I am hoping that this is good news and indicative that no one died from tornados.
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danielw
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Quote:
Ill say this again.. HURRICANECITY Just mentioned it.. When this thing hit, it was not a CAT 3 OR 4.
We will have to wait on an official determination by .
HURRICANE ADVISORY NUMBER 26
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
4 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005
...DENNIS MAKES LANDFALL NEAR PENSACOLA AS A CATEGORY THREE
HURRICANE...
Edited by danielw (Sun Jul 10 2005 05:48 PM)
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Dougyd
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Hurricane City seems to be mostly advertisements. Am I missing something?
Doug
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Nate
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They switch around alot from Coverage to Coverage..
They had a local Forecaster on from Panama City and he and Jim Williams both stated that when a Cane enters the northern Gulf it seems to lose alot of strength.
He also stated that it will be interesting to see what THE says about this, he went on to add that even tho early reports were CAT 3, That the top wind speeds were minimal. The top speeds were 131 mile gusts that were taken on a tower 10 M above ground. That would mean top speeds were 90-100 Miles per hour at Navvare Beach.
He just went to MSNBC cause he said that his live show isnt going to good. There isnt much going on with this storm.
Seems like a few of you were kind of upset that this thing wasnt destructive. It will be interesting the next few days to see what all is said and goes on. But I must say THANK GOD this thing wasnt as bad as thought of.
Mike Sidel just reported highest Gust in Mobile were 74 MPH.
Confirmed Torando Touchdown in Florida in an open field off of Route 132 across from the Baptist Church.
Edited by Nate (Sun Jul 10 2005 06:10 PM)
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MikeC
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Have a report that the bridge between Ocaloosa and Destin is out. highway 98 and significant surge around FWB, anyone else confirm?
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lunkerhunter
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Quote:
He also stated that it will be interesting to see what THE says about this, he went on to add that even tho early reports were CAT 3, That the top wind speeds were minimal. The top speeds were 131 mile gusts that were taken on a tower 10 M above ground. That would mean top speeds were 90-100 Miles per hour at Navvare Beach.
the tower is 10M high but that wind speed was measured at 5M (16ft).
http://grove.ufl.edu/~fcmp/Dennis/T0/NOAA-Dennis-T0-2005-07-10-19-09-00.txt
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danielw
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Until issues a report saying was something other than a Category 3.
Dennis made landfall as a Category Three.
HURRICANE DISCUSSION NUMBER 26
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2005
DENNIS MADE LANDFALL NEAR PENSACOLA AT 1925Z THIS AFTERNOON. THE
LANDFALL INTENSITY IS ESTIMATED TO BE 100 TO 105 KT...BASED ON
FLIGHT LEVEL WINDS OF 117 KT AT 1928Z...TWO STEPPED-FREQUENCY
MICROWAVE RADIOMETER OBSERVATIONS OF 100 KT JUST NORTH OF THE
CENTER JUST PRIOR TO LANDFALL. DROPSONDE OBSERVATIONS AT LANDFALL
ALSO SUPPORT THIS VALUE.
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EaglezFan42
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There you are Nate.
Tropical Wave
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Nate
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Daniel, I think you should know Im not agruibng on what the says. But no where in that area was CAT 3 winds recorded. GUSTS were 131
Also, saying Tropical Depression Emily may be named tonight.
Nate, there is a LOT of data that has not been compiled yet as this thing just made landfall a few hours ago. Let's let this rest a while.
Edited by Storm Cooper (Sun Jul 10 2005 06:39 PM)
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Nate
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Quote:
There you are Nate.
Tropical Wave
Thanks
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craigm
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Lysis, you bring up a great point.Here in Martin County we went through the eyewall of and Jeanne and the power went out at about 45 mph during but stayed on until around 70mph during Jeanne we think to the same things you are referring to, pruning everything and then FPL upgrading all the damaged areas.
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