Vortez message just a couple of hours prior to this one had basically the same information - pressure at 1006, except it report a closed eye wall on the earlier report...actually open up on this latest report (NE)....both had max flight winds at 53k.... this thing is awfully tight and small, not sure in the final analysis if this will be a good or bad thing... being this small.... still looks to be heading off somewhere between WNW and NW at about 8-12 mph.... certainly holding its own and that does not bode well as it moves northwestward toward a more favorable environment... its not getting any weaker that's for sure...