Statement as of 1:00 am CDT on August 05, 2008 ...Rain bands with tropical storm force winds spreading over the coast of Louisiana... a Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect from Grand Isle westward to Port O'Connor Texas. A Hurricane Watch remains in effect from west of Intracoastal City Louisiana to Port O'Connor. For storm information specific to your area...including possible inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather office. At 100 am CDT...0600z...the center of Tropical Storm Edouard was located near latitude 29.0 north...longitude 92.8 west or about 90 miles...145 km...southeast of Port Arthur Texas and about 120 miles...190 km...east of Galveston Texas. Edouard is moving toward the west-northwest near 10 mph...17 km/hr...and this general motion is expected to continue with some increase in forward speed during the next day or two. On the forecast track...the center of Edouard is expected to be near or over the Upper Texas or southwestern Louisiana coasts by midday today. Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph...95 km/hr...with higher gusts. Edouard is forecast to strengthen...and it is expected to be near hurricane strength by the time it reaches the coastline later today. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 70 miles...110 km from the center. Some elevated oil rigs south of the Louisiana coast have been reporting winds gusts of near hurricane force during the past few hours. The minimum central pressure reported by an Air Force Reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft is 997 mb...29.44 inches. A storm surge of 2 to 4 ft above normal tide levels can be expected in the warning area in areas of onshore winds. Edouard is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 3 to 5 inches in some Louisiana coastal parishes. Accumulations of 4 to 6 inches...with isolated maximum amounts of 10 inches are possible over southeastern Texas. Isolated tornadoes are possible over portions of southern Louisiana and the Upper Texas coast today. Repeating the 100 am CDT position...29.0 N...92.8 W. Movement toward...west-northwest near 10 mph. Maximum sustained winds...60 mph. Minimum central pressure...997 mb. The next advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 400 am CDT. $$ Forecaster Pasch/Roberts
reporting in from a condo overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.(about a mile west of the end of the Seawall) Its really looking like landfall is going to be east of here, which ironically looks like the track inland is gonna take it right over my house. If it goes like that, it will be the first time someone went TOWARDS a storm to get away from it.
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/at200805.public.html#a_topad Statement as of 4:00 am CDT on August 05, 2008 ...Corrected time of warning/watch discontinuance... ...Edouard strengthens a little more as it approaches the northwest Gulf Coast... At 4 am CDT...0900 UTC...the Tropical Storm Warning and Hurricane Watch are discontinued south of Sargent Texas. A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect from Grand Isle Louisiana westward to Sargent Texas. A Hurricane Watch remains in effect from west of Intracoastal City Louisiana to Sargent Texas. For storm information specific to your area...including possible inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather office. At 400 am CDT...0900z...the center of Tropical Storm Edouard was located near latitude 29.3 north...longitude 93.4 west or about 50 miles... 80 km...southeast of Port Arthur Texas and about 85 miles ...135 km...east of Galveston Texas. Edouard is moving toward the west-northwest near 12 mph...19 km/hr ...And this motion is expected to continue today. On the forecast track...the center of Edouard is expected to be near or over the Upper Texas or southwestern Louisiana coasts by midday today. Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph...100 km/hr...with higher gusts. Some additional strengthening is possible prior to landfall and Edouard could approach hurricane strength by the time its center crosses the coast. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 70 miles...110 km from the center. An Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft reported a minimum central pressure of 997 mb...29.44 inches. A storm surge of 2 to 4 ft above normal tide levels can be expected in the warning area in areas of onshore winds. Edouard is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 3 to 5 inches in some southwestern Louisiana coastal parishes and southeastern Texas. Isolated maximum amounts of 10 inches are possible over portions of southeastern Texas. Isolated tornadoes are possible over portions of southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas today. Repeating the 400 am CDT position...29.3 N...93.4 W. Movement toward...west-northwest near 12 mph. Maximum sustained winds...65 mph. Minimum central pressure...997 mb. An intermediate advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 700 am CDT followed by the next complete advisory at 1000 am CDT. $$ Forecaster Pasch/Roberts Looks to be east of Bolivar...
I live 5 minutes away from Spring. I'll let you guys know. So far, nothing, I don't even hear thunder or anything.
if rita would have hit houston as category 4 it would have been a disaster, as is it was a disaster to the border area where it end up, just not a heavily populated area. but this thing is definitely overblown, but this is what the news is today
reporting at location: HWY 6 and Bissonnet... absolutely no acitvity yet, but dark clouds can be seen
Reporting from Northshore, I10 and Normandy (bout 10 min from Downtown); heavy drizzling....... supposed to really hit in about an hour.
Oh my god, it's sprinkling! my driveway is all damp! I don't blame people for being scared for Rita, the news was full of dead bodies and human misery from Katrina. And it was a huge MF headed right for us. I was 100% sure that my beachouse was history, 100%. But there is a big difference between a tropical storm/Cat 1 hurricane and a Cat 4 or 5. Allison was bad because the storm track doubled over us and dropped more rain than our flat drainage systems could handle. The county has built massive storm water retention capacity since that event, though heavy rains will always cause localized flooding here. You can't get water to run off a flat surface even though we are about 40' above sea level. (the flooded parts of New Orleans were about 5' above sea level, some areas behind the levees were below the mean river level) The mayor seemed to downplay this event, but for TV stations it's all about eyeballs.
