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Ease up everyone! Here's an earlier post ....
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In case anyone had any doubts..............
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1200 AM EDT SUN SEP 26 2004
AROUND 1150 PM EDT SATURDAY...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE JEANNE MADE LANDFALL NEAR THE SOUTHERN END OF HUTCHINSON ISLAND JUST EAST OF STUART FLORIDA...NEAR LATITUDE 27.2 NORTH...LONGITUDE 80.2 WEST.
RECENT OBSERVATIONS FROM THE STEPPED-FREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT ONBOARD A NOAA P-3 RESEARCH AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT JEANNE WAS A CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE AT LANDFALL...WITH MAXIMUM WINDS NEAR 120 MPH.
FORECASTER PASCH/FRANKLIN
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great stuff Shana - thanks
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Ok, In Pinellas County FL, Very close to Tampa Bay, I am seriously debating with a few friends going and getting some sand in trash bags and doing a basic sandbagging of the house, During , the watere made it to the back porch, I'm thinking this will be worse, particularly the furtehr south it treks...
what's the best way to sandbag the place, and yes
if it looks like it's going south of me, I'm going to evac... though i just drove by the shelters near me, they're all closed....
links or thoughts would be MOST appriecated
thanks!
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Thanks Skeet!
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That's pretty much what happened with , too. All right, I gotta take a break, the dog's mad at me. 
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Nicely put Scott, as always.
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Got this message in a PM, any help would be appreciated:
My husband is scheduled to go to West Palm on Monday. Are the airports closed as of now?
Any news about the WPB power outages?
Thanks
Posted this one page ago...trying to help...but maybe I'll just call it a night...
WPB Airport website is offline, but check http://www.pbia.org/ tomorrow.
edited to add: Also, check the tv station list for live feeds, they may answer ???s
'shana
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>>> Beer anyone?
Heh...somehow I pictured scott as the rob lowe character from "St. Elmo's Fire".....
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Thanks for the clarification, Scott. I know it's not always the best way to spot a trend.. staring at the radar loops.. Selfishly, my area gets less impact the more due west she continues. Less impact meaning, 80 mph instead of 95.
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As the eye interacts with the land, you'd expect it to ride up the coast a little. I'd assume there is some sort of diffraction effect going on. I guess the best analogy to use would be to think about driving on a paved road onto a dirt road. When you first change road types, you turn a little.
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Okay folks. For those of you that don't have cable tv. ShanaTX just put up about 2 dozen links for info.
If you watch the Weather Channel loop, with the grid overlay, you can see a slight move toward the North.
I'm thinking the 120mph may have come from a mesovortex located just south of the center at landfall. But I can't find data to support that yet.
The eye did manage to contract prior to landfall, and may be the reason the northward move is apparent. The eye contraction could also increase the windspeed temporarily.
Recon had reported an extrapolated pressure of 947mb, but the report was quiclky corrected and the pressure removed from the 0426Z report.
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This is probably a bad time for a met question. Do the embedded tornadoes in these hurricanes resemble the dynamic which produces suction vortices that spin out from the main vortex in F3-F4 tornadoes (there is a great video of this showing the F4 that struck Edmonton Alberta in 1987)?
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I haven't been around much the past few days, getting actual work done (a nice change, I guess, from following these beasts), but the second of the two options I presented a few days ago -- the more westward track into the state -- has come to fruition. But, where does it go from here?
If we've learned anythnig from this season, it's that storms are going further west than predicted before turning. The ridge to its north is gradually weakening, but it still extends a good bit to the west without a whole lot pushing it back east right now.
Best prediction would be for it to exit the state into the Gulf again a bit further south than what did -- and probably a tad bit stronger at that point. Somewhere between north of Tampa and Crystal River looks to be my bet, with a gradual turn again to the NW with time. Overnight early Monday morning -- probably between 2 & 8 am -- a second landfall somewhere near or just east of Apalachicola is likely as a minmal hurricane. From there, the storm should being to turn N & NE. Thus, this track is a bit stronger than the 's track, a bit faster to begin with, and about 75 miles further west.
Everyone in the Panhandle needs to watch this one closely Sunday, as we may see some extension of the hurricane advisories up the coast. I've heard from a few NWS forecasters around the SE that they expect the storm to hit the Gulf again...it's just a matter of where and for how long.
Stairstep tracks like took across the state will be pivotal, so this is one instance where minor wobbles are something that need to be closely followed.
Best of wishes to everyone in this thing's path..and here's hoping Gulf season is a downer.
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dude - Seminole middle school shelter is open.. go to Park Blvd to 131st, go north to 86th and should be on the right.
As for sandbagging, I am in Redington on the Intracoastal and my home sits at five and one-half feet above sea level and I have placed 2 sets of bags (high) across my sliding doors toward the bay. My dock faces directly north so I might not be too bad because the surge element will come from the west and sw winds about 10 am they said. Considering high tide in Madeira is at 11:53 (2.53 above seal level), it will be close considering 75 mph gusts throwing water at me. I just throw them down with one corner angeled in, the next bag angeled to it and so on.. it has always worked.
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check this from the HIRT team at http://hurricanetrack.com
News & Comments Updated: 11:20 PM EDT, September 25, 2004...
RAGING WIND HERE IN VERO- HIRT TAHOE HAS BACK WINDOW BLASTED OUT! WE ARE ALL SAFE- BUT IT IS A MESS OUT THERE!
The wind will have to go un-measured by us now- we just lost the back hatch window on the Tahoe from a branch smashing in to it at over 60 mph! We are safe- but the the Tahoe is damaged. We were about to go live on MSNBC when BAM! something hit the Tahoe from behind. Glass is all in the back- but that is fixable.
We are now under a concrete bay at the local hospital where MSNBC has been reporting all evening. The pressure is down to 976 millibars and the wind seems to be letting up a little. We will venture out during the eye only in a small area to see what damage we can see. Even I know that it is dangerous to go outside during the eye- so I will not go far from the grounds of the hospital here in Vero Beach. I will try to post more video updates here once the eye passes over.
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Anybody else see a pattern here...(?):
NHC Update 11:00 p.m. Friday: THE STRONG HIGH NORTH OF THE HURRICANE WILL CONTINUE TO FORCE JEANNE ON THIS
GENERAL TRACK FOR THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS. THEREAFTER...A GRADUAL TURN TO THE NORTHWEST AND NORTH SHOULD BEGIN
Update at 11:00 am Saturday: THIS PATTERN WILL CONTINUE TO STEER JEANNE TOWARD THE WEST WITH A GRADUAL TURN TO THE NORTHWEST AROUND THE HIGH
DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS
1:00 am this moring: ...AND A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
If I were on the Gulf Coast I don't think I think I would count on the NW turn happening on schedule... eventually, yes... but when... definitely later than they thought. That much is known...
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Thanks!!
Any news on power outage numbers? I'd like to know the state wide number.
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dude - Seminole middle school shelter is open.. go to Park Blvd to 131st, go north to 86th and should be on the right.
As for sandbagging, I am in Redington on the Intracoastal and my home sits at five and one-half feet above sea level and I have placed 2 sets of bags (high) across my sliding doors toward the bay. My dock faces directly north so I might not be too bad because the surge element will come from the west and sw winds about 10 am they said. Considering high tide in Madeira is at 11:53 (2.53 above seal level), it will be close considering 75 mph gusts throwing water at me. I just throw them down with one corner angeled in, the next bag angeled to it and so on.. it has always worked.
Thanks for the heads up on the sandbagging, the big problem, I just moved into this house... 6 weeks ago...
LOL
this was a really really really bad time to pick this house...
Ok, I also found a website on sandbagging ... here is the link for anyone else who might need it in the future:
http://www.valleywater.org/Emergency_Info_and_Preparation/Sandbag_program/index.shtm
Be back in a bit, time to go to the causeway and grab some sand...
Mark
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looked like there was an eye replacement cycle occuring right at landfall. Is that possibly why the eye deteriorated so fast?
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"we just lost the back hatch window on the Tahoe from a branch smashing in to it at over 60 mph! "
Perfect example of WHY to board up. Car windows are VERY tough.
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