Katrina Progress Report 9:40 PM
..Watching Hurricane Katrina, now about 120 miles from the southeastern coast of Louisiana. The National Hurricane Center just finished up their conference call, and here some highlights from the upcoming 10pm package:* Latest recon flight found a bit of a rugged area in the SW eyewall. Maybe this will cause some slight weakening.
* NHC will have Katrina as a strong Cat 4, maybe even a Cat 5, at landfall. The Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coasts will suffer extreme damage. It may take years for coastal areas to rebuild...
* Pressure still at 904mb, but a recon plane will be in the storm shortly to evaluate the storm again.
* Our forecast reasoning has not changed much. Katrina will move inland across SE LA, then into the MS coast. It will track northward through east central MS, running from roughly Mendenhall to NE MS. Areas like Bay Springs, Paulding, Raleigh, Newton, Hickory, Meridian, Quitman, Waynesboro, Livingston, York, Butler and others will likely see significant wind damage, with widespread power outages. Please finalize your preparations no later than 9 AM Monday.
* IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME -- Please make arrangements to vacate your mobile home by 8 AM Monday. If you have no other place to go, ride out the storm at a Red Cross Shelter...
* Our weather will begin to go downhill tomorrow morning. We expect the worst of it to arrive Monday evening and into the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday.
* TV COVERAGE...We will continue our hourly progress reports all night. At 4:00 AM, we will begin doing cut-ins every half hour. Then, at 6:00 AM we will begin long-form continuous coverage. This coverage is also available on the web if you are away from a TV.
* I'm going to try and get some sleep as soon as the 10:00 news is over...I'm running the "behind the scenes" work right now. Will be back up and running by 3 or 4 AM getting ready for a very, very long day.
* Say a prayer - it works.
posted by WTOK Weather Staff @ 9:40 PM
2 Comments:
What can the residents of Louisville expect? Also,being on the east side of the storm how significant of a threat for tornadoes do we have?
you guys are doing an excellent job of keeping us informed. Get some rest.....you are gonna need it
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