'Killer' Hurricane Dennis headed straight for Havana

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'Killer' Hurricane Dennis headed straight for Havana

#1 Postby Praxus » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:32 pm

as just said on CNN...Havana is in no shape to endure a major hurricane :eek:
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#2 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:34 pm

Killer? Maybe but it was a super hurricane for a short time. It looks like it will go just to the east of that city. The storm is moving northwestward by radar. In should be over water with in 12 hours.
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#3 Postby TheShrimper » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:36 pm

It will exit Cuba's northern coast East of Habana. It would have to switch to a wnw heading pronto to hit Habana dead on. KW long range shows little deviation in heading for the past 3 hours.
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#4 Postby Canelaw99 » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:38 pm

Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote: In should be over water with in 12 hours.


Probably less than that. Our local mets have been saying that it should be off Cuba by midnight or so tonight.
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#5 Postby Praxus » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:39 pm

Wolf Blitzer called it killer; but the Havana info came from the director
of the National Hurricane Center. Wolf asked him if Havana would escape the
eye of the storm, and he said no, that the current track should take Dennis
right over Havana later tonight.
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#6 Postby jax » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:41 pm

If you look at the long range radar out of Key West... you
can see it's headed directly for Havana... if it keeps this course...
it'll be left of track!
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#7 Postby rtd2 » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:48 pm

jax wrote:If you look at the long range radar out of Key West... you
can see it's headed directly for Havana... if it keeps this course...
it'll be left of track!



Yep...He sure hasnt made much ground Taking that angle!

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... kbyx.shtml
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#8 Postby jenshops » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:48 pm

looks like it will exit just to the east of Havana, have to wait and see.
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#9 Postby Canelaw99 » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:49 pm

AP out of Havana: 10 people have died in Cuba of a result of Dennis...info. given to the Cuban people by Castro.

2 - result of roof collapsing on them
1- falling palm tree

not sure about the others...
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#10 Postby GalvestonDuck » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:51 pm

Canelaw - yup, ya beat me to it. Deleted my post. :)
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#11 Postby dhweather » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:56 pm

So will Castro be too proud to accept aid again this time?
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#12 Postby goodlife » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:56 pm

Can someone point out to me where Havana is in Cuba??
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#13 Postby dhweather » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:58 pm

Look at this, it's in Northwestern Cuba



http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... kbyx.shtml
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#14 Postby goodlife » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:00 pm

THANKS A BUNCH!!!
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#15 Postby NC George » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:27 pm

At 7p, it was 65 miles ESE of Havana, and moving NW at 15 mph. It should be over water by 11:20p (65/15 = 4.3 hours)
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#16 Postby HurricaneBill » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:13 pm

dhweather wrote:So will Castro be too proud to accept aid again this time?


Of course he will!
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#17 Postby Praxus » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:40 pm

Latest radar shows Dennis' eye about to roll directly over Havana....
even at cat 2 it will still be really nasty I'd think...

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... kbyx.shtml
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#18 Postby Ixolib » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:45 pm

Praxus wrote:Latest radar shows Dennis' eye about to roll directly over Havana....
even at cat 2 it will still be really nasty I'd think...

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... kbyx.shtml


Looks like a direct hit to me...
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#19 Postby Sanibel » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:53 pm

Havana taking SW core right now. Can only estimate winds of 100mph+...
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#20 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:58 pm

The damage that should be reported soon will be the worst a hurricane could ever do to Cuba. This thing was a boader line cat5 at line fall. In then it moved west-northwest down the middle of central then western Cuba. It hit there main city as a boader line cat3. I expect Cuba was just put back 50 years or more. Just like what Mitch did.
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