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8:45pm -- has taken a turn to the north over the past couple of hours, something that will have to be monitored to see if it lasts. See Thomas Giella's and Clark Evans' latest blog entries below for reasoning as to why the recent deepening of the storm may be directly related to this recent turn.
The above image is from the NASA MODIS Gallery. They are updated infrequently, but have very very high resolution images. Desktop Wallpaper worthy quality.
The new forecast calls for a Category 4 landfalling system. The only thing that could perhaps weaken it is slightly cooler water over the Gulf near the coast, assuming it stays over the water long enough there. Excessive storm surge is possible, upwards of 10-20ft in some locations, if the forecast verifies.
Jim Williams is doing an audio show tonight over at Hurricane City; if you have RealPlayer, you can listen in with this link.
It is deepening fairly rapidly, and there is nothing in the short term to keep it from doing so a bit more. Track is still towards Pensacola tomorrow evening, but all of the warning area needs to prepare for a potentially Category 4 storm making landfall.
Chat is open tonight, click here or on the link to the left to get there.
Site Note News talkbacks are now in lockdown mode, which means that unregistered users cannot reply.
You can still post in the other forums besides talkbacks. This enables us to moderate a lot better. I hate doing this, but I can see obvious signs of "storm stress" on a few individuals. We'll make it open again as soon as it calms down.
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Hopefully this will only last a short time.
Event Related Links
Emergency Management
Gulf Coast Storm Alert Network
FloridaDisaster.org - Florida Emergency Management
Monroe County/Florida Keys,
Panhandle Coastal Counties West to East
Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa, County, Okaloosa County, FL,
Walton County, FL,
Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Franklin County, FL
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA)
http://www.msema.org/index.htm
Florida Keys Long Range Radar Loop
Tampa Bay, FL Long Range Radar
Miami, FL Long Range Radar
Melbourne, FL Long Range Radar
Tallahassee, FL Long Range Radar
Mobile, AL Long Range Radar
Dennis
MODIS Ultra High Resolution Satellite Images
Google Map Plot of along with
High Speed Storm Relative Floater - RAMSDIS ONLINE
Animated Model Plot of
Model Plot Graphic from the South Florida Water Management District of
Dennis Spaghetti Model from boatus
Weather Underground Model Plots for
Quikskat Image of
Color Sat of
Floater Satellite (Visible) of with Storm Track Overlays
(Animated)
RAMSDIS high speed visible Floater of
98L/Area in Central Atlantic
Animated Model Plot of 98L
Webcams, Video, Audio
WJHG 7 the NBC Affiliate in Panama City Beach, FL will be streaming video over hte internet from 5:30-6:30 PM tonight and then from 10PM until the storm is over. This is flhurricane met blogger Jason Kelley's TV Station.
Mark Sudduth's at coastal Alabama again ready to move east or west, he has a mobile observation tower he'll be leaving along the coast when arrives - Hurricane Trak/Mark Suddth Car & Tower Cam
Hurricane Now - Video reports from former CNN hurrican reporter Jeff Flock
Suncam.tv's collection of cam's and Mobile (not the city) cams - Suncam.tv's Moble Car Cam
Hurricane City and Jim Williams do audio shows nightly around 8PM
Weathervine.com Storm Chasing
Joseph Johnston's Mobile Bay Webcam - Mobile Bay webcam recording will being the AM of the 10th here
Key West Webcams
New Orleans webcams
WKRG 5 in Mobile/Pensacola i streaming live coverage
WPMI Channel 15 from Mobile Alabama - Streaming Video 10PM
Pensacola Beach Webcam
Beachview webcams from near destin/PCB
Police Scanner Streams
Mobile Police - Mobile, AL
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hurricane_run
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they should be prepared already. but if not they bettere get to work right away
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AndyG
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Watching both Key West long range and Tampa long range, it looks like is moving almost due N now.
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hurricane_run
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it does maybe it is just a jog
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NewWatcher
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Hard for me to tell for sure, but man it really looks impressive on the last few sat. images
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ShanaTX
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Dennis sure reorganized in a hurry! I hope everyone in the path is prepared and done their best to be safe.
Maybe the older topic should be locked now? It would be less confusing during the fast and furious postings... just a suggestion
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hurricane_run
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it sure does it is going to be really strong
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javlin
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NLU I have been asking myself the same question all day.The models are continuing to go W some as far as NO.The Civil Defense of Harrison County has yet to issue any and I mean any kind of statement yet today.While the two counties one to E and one to W have.They say they are waiting till 7:00PM this evening to make any hard decisions(Casino's?).While people hear that the Fl Panhandle and that to the E is the main target.
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Big Red Machine
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Found this on Weatherunderground, from their Director of Meteorology Dr. Jeff Masters. I do not want to be an alarmist, but given the nature of the situation, I wanted to post this for our Alabama/Panhandle posters....
I urge all residents of the Gulf Coast in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle who were undecided about whether to evacuate to get out now!
Dennis continues to break the rules for what is usual for a hurricane. In my previous blog entry, I wrote that it is very unusual for a major hurricane to regain its former intensity after a long crossing over land. However, is poised to do just that.
Aircraft recon just measured a central pressure of 947 mb at 5:15pm, an 11 mb drop in 90 minutes--a rarely observed rate of intensification. The eyewall shrank from 15 miles in diameter to 12 miles, and the satellite presentation confirms that the storm is undergoing explosive deepening. will surely be a strong Category 4 storm in about 6 hours, when the winds have time to catch up to the pressure falls, and Category 5 is not out of the question. Satellite imagery shows an outer wind maximum is probably forming, meaning will enter another eyewall replacement cycle tonight after this phase of explosive deepening is over.
The current track of the storm is more WNW than NW, and is likely a temporary wobble similar to two others this storm has already done. I expect will shortly resume its previous northwest track. The most recent wobble occurred as the storm was doing its previous rapid intensification cycle just before it hit Cuba. The current wobble is enough to probably spare Panama City the worst of the hurricane, but increases the danger to Mobile. A direct hit by just west of Mobile could easily challenge Hurricane Andrew as the most expensive hurricane in history. 's storm surge of 15-20 feet would push into Mobile Bay and cause tens of billions in destruction. Even if hits further east near Pensacola, as I still expect, the damage will surpass 's $13 billion and 's $14 billion to make the second costliest hurricane on record.
Dr. Jeff Masters
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hurricane_run
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Dr. Masters will be on WX radio tonight I think at 9 pmEDT live
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HanKFranK
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in the words of the homestar runner... oh cwap. i've been gone six hours, and the pressure has dropped 20 mb. i wasn't sure it would spin back up this fast. maybe it'll go through an or shelf waters will mitigate whatever strength it gets to before this time tomorrow.. but this is going to be a heck of a blow.
HF 2349z09july
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MichaelA
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Dennis is over the Gulf Loop Current which is very warm. SSTs are lower ahead of the storm as it approaches the NE Gulf coast. I'm expecting will be a strong Cat 3 or minimal Cat 4 as it makes landfall in the FL panhandle or Alabama (Mobile Bay).
-------------------- Michael
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pcola
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OK...can anybody verify this...the escambia county emergency new conference on TV in pcola just stated that the has informed them that is now a Cat 4....
-------------------- Erin 95 , Opal 95, Ivan 04, Dennis 05, and that's enough!!!!
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hurricane_run
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is anyone going to the storm chat link is on the left
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BillD
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The last few visible images are incredible, I know that the shadows in the evening enhance the effect, but just check out any visible from about 22:00Z on... There is no doubt this is a major hurricane.
As far as the wobbles, I've been watching the Tampa radar, I saw the West wobble, and the North wobble, but now it looks like NW again. We need to wait overnight I think to see if the NNW track works out. But so far the has been right on track.
Bill
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hurricane_run
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from the 7 pm Repeating the 7 PM EDT position...26.1 N... 84.9 W. Movement
toward...northwest near 14 mph. Maximum sustained
winds...115 mph. Minimum central pressure... 947 mb.
recon flight enroute to the storm
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The has had a good grip on thus far and they do have synoptic reasoning, along with climatology and experience to back their track.
Remember though, the harps on the public all the time about the cone and not fixating on the line. Both MS and Alabama are well within the cone and should be very vigilant and doing whatever necessary to protect life and property.
-------------------- Jara
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Here's a rough unscientific chart I put together showing the movement of during each 6 hour interval since July 5th. As you can see, historical movement over the last 2.5 days has been pretty much NW (a heading of 315 degrees). You will notice however that in 2 of last 3 intervals (i.e. today), movement was actually at a heading slightly greater than 315 degrees, perhaps signaling that gradual N/NW turn folks have been forecasting.
This might be hard to read, so I've attached it in a .txt format as well. Hope this is helpful.
TIME/DATE LAT LONG LAT CHG LNG CHG HEADING
11p 7/4 12.5 63.1 -- -- --
5a 7/5 12.6 64.4 0.1 1.3 274.4
11a 7/5 13.3 66.6 0.7 2.2 287.7
5p 7/5 14.2 68.3 0.9 1.7 297.9
11p 7/5 14.6 69.2 0.4 0.9 294.0
5a 7/5 15.1 70.3 0.5 1.1 294.4
11a 7/6 15.4 71.5 0.3 1.2 284.0
5p 7/6 16 72.5 0.6 1 301.0
11p 7/6 16.5 73.4 0.5 0.9 299.1
5a 7/7 17 74.6 0.5 1.2 292.6
11a 7/7 18 75.6 1 1 315.0
5p 7/7 19 76.6 1 1 315.0
11p 7/7 19.9 77.6 0.9 1 312.0
5a 7/8 20.7 79.1 0.8 1.5 298.1
11a 7/8 21.4 79.9 0.7 0.8 311.2
5p 7/8 22.6 81.1 1.2 1.2 315.0
11p 7/8 23 82.1 0.4 1 291.8
5a 7/9 23.9 82.9 0.9 0.8 318.4
11a 7/9 24.7 83.8 0.8 0.9 311.6
5p 7/9 25.7 84.6 1 0.8 321.3
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BillD
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This is from the 7:00 PM advisory. They are only saying it MIGHT become a cat 4.
REPORTS FROM AIR FORCE AND NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE
THAT HAS STRENGTHENED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NOW NEAR 115 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS.
THIS MAKES A CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
SCALE. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS EXPECTED...AND COULD
BECOME A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE BEFORE LANDFALL ON THE NORTHERN GULF
COAST.
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hurricane_run
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not good
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