Ida becomes Extratropical while 98L is slowly developing in the open Atlantic
Ida has official been declared a Extratropical cyclone meaning that it is now a cold-core system. Here is the last advisory on Ida:
…IDA BECOMES EXTRATROPICAL…ALL WARNINGS DISCONTINUED…
AT 900 AM CST…1500 UTC…ALL TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN
DISCONTINUED.
FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA…INCLUDING POSSIBLE
INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS…PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY
YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE.
DATA FROM NOAA DOPPLER RADAR AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT
THE CENTER OF IDA MADE ITS SECOND LANDFALL AROUND 700 AM CST…1300
UTC…JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF BON SECOUR ALABAMA.
AT 900 AM CST…1500 UTC…THE CENTER OF IDA WAS LOCATED NEAR
LATITUDE 30.6 NORTH…LONGITUDE 87.6 WEST OR ABOUT 30 MILES… 50
KM…EAST-SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE ALABAMA AND ABOUT 25 MILES… 40
KM…WEST-NORTHWEST OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA.
IDA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST NEAR 9 MPH…15 KM/HR…AND THIS
GENERAL MOTION WITH A TURN TOWARD THE EAST IS EXPECTED UNTIL IT
BECOMES ABSORBED BY A FRONT ON WEDNESDAY.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO NEAR 35 MPH…55
KM/HR…WITH HIGHER GUSTS. IDA HAS LOST TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS
AND ITS WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY DIMINISH DURING THE NEXT DAY
OR SO.
THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1000 MB…29.53 INCHES.
IDA IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE TOTAL RAIN ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 6
INCHES…WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM STORM TOTALS OF 8 INCHES…THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING FROM THE EASTERN GULF COAST ACROSS THE
SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES INTO THE SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC
STATES.
WATER LEVELS ALONG THE NORTHERN GULF COAST SHOULD GRADUALLY BEGIN TO
SUBSIDE DURING THE DAY.
…SUMMARY OF 900 AM CST INFORMATION…
LOCATION…30.6N 87.6W
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…35 MPH
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NORTHEAST OR 45 DEGREES AT 9 MPH
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1000 MB
THIS IS THE LAST PUBLIC ADVISORY ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER ON THIS SYSTEM. FUTURE INFORMATION ON IDA CAN BE FOUND IN
PUBLIC ADVISORIES ISSUED BY THE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION
CENTER…UNDER AWIPS HEADER TCPAT1 AND WMO HEADER WTNT31
KWNH…BEGINNING AT 300 PM CST.
Ida however will continue to spread rain up the coast and flooding could be a real problem as a 2 or 3 inches can be expected in areas that really don’t need the rain.
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EL Salvador dispatches aid for Ida victims
SAN SALVADOR, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) — Salvadorian Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said on Monday that the government has sent 17 cubic tones of food in the last 10 hours for the victims of hurricane Ida.
The aid was sent to communities in risk in the five most affected departments of the country.
Centeno requested the victims to follow the indications given by the staff in charge of giving them the aid and confirmed that President Mauricio Funes will visit the affected areas.
Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry Hugo Martinez said on Monday that the governments of Cuba, Guatemala, Japan, Panama and Venezuela as well as the European Union and the United Nations have offered humanitarian aid in order to mitigate the effects caused by Ida, which has so far killed 130 people.
“That international aid will begin to be channelized on Monday,” Martinez said.
Salvadorian Vice Education Minister Eduardo Badia Serra said on Monday that the classes at some of the schools will be canceled, as some of their buildings are being used as shelters.
While the rest of the schools will continue with their normal activities as long as the schools and civil protection authorities determine that the facilities are in good conditions and do not represent a risk for the students’ lives.
According to the latest report of Civil Protection, during Ida’s passing by El Salvador, 7,000 people were evacuated and taken to56 temporary shelters, while 1,700 houses were damaged and another168 houses were completely destroyed.
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Grand Isle Rushes To Repair Collapsed Levee
GRAND ISLE, La. –
A 1,000-foot section of a levee on the western side of Grand Isle collapsed Monday morning as tides rose with the approach of Tropical Storm Ida.
Jefferson Parish Emergency Management Director Deano Bonano said crews were busy working to repair the collapsed levee.
“It’s hard to judge. Depending on how quickly we can get materials in to fill that gap … we hope to have it done in a temporary fashion at least by tonight,” Bonano said.
Two or three homes were threatened by the levee failure, Bonano said. The land underneath the elevated camps was threatening to erode.
The same stretch of levee was damaged in hurricanes Katrina, Gustav and Ike. Bonano said the post-Katrina repairs were probably not sufficient for that levee.
“This was the section that was put up very hastily after Katrina and I don’t believe it was anchored properly or put in the right location,” Bonano said.
Grand Isle is among the coastal areas in Louisiana expected to see the high winds and storm surge from Ida, which is forecast to make landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama border early Tuesday.
Sustained winds of 45-55 mph and a tidal surge of 4 to 6 feet is forecast.
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Tropical Storm Ida – Update 2:17pm
Watching recon data streaming in I am seeing that in the northest quad there is a very large area of 60+ kt winds at flight level. Any one in the northeast quad should be prepared for at the very least Hurricane conditions in gusts if not sustained. Over the course of the next 8 or so hours the surge that was built up during Ida’s time as a Hurricane will continue to get pushed in toward the coast with a increase of another 2+ feet. I will post more updates through out the afternoon, evening, and night.
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Tropical Storm Ida
Ida weakens to a Tropical Storm but is still headed toward the gulf coast with 70mph winds. All Hurricane watches and warnings have been dropped however tropical storm warnings and watches remain in effect. Here is the latest as of 9am CST:
...IDA WEAKENS TO A TROPICAL STORM... AT 9 AM CST...1500 UTC...ALL HURRICANE WARNINGS AND WATCHES ALONG THE GULF COAST HAVE BEEN DISCONTINUED. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA EASTWARD TO THE AUCILLA RIVER FLORIDA...INCLUDING NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN 24 HOURS. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. AT 900 AM CST...1500 UTC...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM IDA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 26.5 NORTH...LONGITUDE 88.3 WEST OR ABOUT 185 MILES...300 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ABOUT 285 MILES...460 KM...SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA. IDA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST NEAR 17 MPH...28 KM/HR. A TURN TOWARD THE NORTH AND THEN TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ON THE FORECAST TRACK...THE CENTER OF IDA IS EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL ALONG THE NORTHERN GULF COAST TUESDAY MORNING. AFTER LANDFALL...A TURN TO THE EAST IS EXPECTED ON TUESDAY. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS CONTINUE TO DECREASE AND ARE NOW NEAR 70 MPH...110 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME ADDITIONAL WEAKENING IS EXPECTED TODAY AS IDA APPROACHES THE COAST. TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 200 MILES...325 KM FROM THE CENTER. THE ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 996 MB...29.41 INCHES. RAINS FROM IDA WILL BE REACHING THE COAST OVER PORTIONS OF THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. TOTAL STORM ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM STORM TOTALS OF 8 INCHES...ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN GULF COAST NORTHWARD INTO THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY...THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS...AND THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. A DANGEROUS STORM TIDE WILL RAISE WATER LEVELS BY AS MUCH AS 3 TO 5 FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL ALONG THE COAST NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. NEAR THE COAST...THE SURGE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE WAVES. ...SUMMARY OF 900 AM CST INFORMATION... LOCATION...26.5N 88.3W MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...70 MPH PRESENT MOVEMENT...NORTH-NORTHWEST OR 340 DEGREES AT 17 MPH MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...996 MB AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 1200 PM CST FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 300 PM CST.
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