ATL: ISAAC - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[gboudx]

Starting to move north....looks close to the coast....

On this radar, you can clearly see the beginnings of a southern eyewall. We may see Isaac's eye afterall.

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/se ... X-N0Q-1-24

[tolakram]

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[Buck]

Isaac is a big, round beautiful pinwheel on visible.

[TheDreamTraveler]

New and very large hot tower seems to be firing up on the east side of the LLC

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/htdocs_dyn_p ... xico.0.jpg

Oh wow, you can really see that. This thing has finally pulled itself together after suffering for the entirety of its existence. Gonna be a very interesting next couple of hours that's for sure.

[hurricanes1234]

Definitely the last opportunity for any intensification to occur. I'd say Isaac has less than 2 1/2 hours to intensify. If it manages to intensify, it'll probably reach 85 mph, nothing stronger than that. There's very little time and water left for Isaac to strengthen, so if it manages to do so, it will most likely be a minimal amount of intensification.

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[WxGuy1]

Hey WxGuy1, have you seen a report from KBVE recently? I haven't seen one since 1551 GMT and think they may have shut down.

Do you mean 1551 CDT not 1551 GMT (which is 10:51 am). The latest ob I have is 2125 UTC (or 4:25 pm local time / CDT), which was 36 kts sustained (barely tropical storm) gusting to 62 kts. Considering nearby gusts at KMIS, I'd guess that power has been lost to that station (or the transmission network is down and the observations cannot be disseminated). Let me know if you come across a later update!

[SunnyThoughts]

close up view wow at the tower going up at the center. http://www.texasstormchasers.com/wp-con ... 8/2229.jpg

[superstareporter]

Starting to move north....looks close to the coast....

So what does that mean? Is it not coming ashore in NOLA? or will it rake the coastline all the way to Mississippi?

[Rail Dawg]

To catch the eye should I be in Houma? Or Morgan City? Other?

Thanks.

[SoupBone]

According to NOAA's center coords, it's about 19 nautical miles from the tip of Plaquemines parish.

[BigEasy]

I think you're onto something. The outlined area some are looking at as LAND is often underwater and surely is with hurricane tides. This along with coastal erosion makes those outlines very suspect.

That is true. Once a storm approaches, all of that area becomes completely under water, from the tidal surge. So basically, and not counting the very tiny strip of hard land, which is the river levee on both sides of the Mississippi, all of SELA is now under water for the most part, except the areas abut 20 miles straight south from New Orleans northward.

[monicaei]

To catch the eye should I be in Houma? Or Morgan City? Other?

Thanks.

Grand Isle? Maybe Fourchon?

Of course Hwy 1 is under water by now I would think

[gboudx]

I think you're onto something. The outlined area some are looking at as LAND is often underwater and surely is with hurricane tides. This along with coastal erosion makes those outlines very suspect.

That is true. Once a storm approaches, all of that area becomes completely under water, from the tidal surge. So basically, and not counting the very tiny strip of hard land, which is the river levee on both sides of the Mississippi, all of SELA is now under water for the most part, except the areas abut 20 miles straight south from New Orleans northward.

Do we know that the back levees in Plaquemines have been breached, or are you saying there's so little land due to decades of erosion that it's mostly water?

[Aric Dunn]

im heading down highway 23 se of NOLA towards the peninsula hopefully going to make into the eye later.

[TheDreamTraveler]

Look at those high cloud tops...

http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/GOES ... Exa77F.jpg

[GCANE]

New and very large hot tower seems to be firing up on the east side of the LLC

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/htdocs_dyn_p ... xico.0.jpg

Oh wow, you can really see that. This thing has finally pulled itself together after suffering for the entirety of its existence. Gonna be a very interesting next couple of hours that's for sure.

Really nice on VIS

http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/htdocs_dyn_p ... xico.0.jpg

[ozonepete]

Hey WxGuy1, have you seen a report from KBVE recently? I haven't seen one since 1551 GMT and think they may have shut down.

Do you mean 1551 CDT not 1551 GMT (which is 10:51 am). The latest ob I have is 2125 UTC (or 4:25 pm local time / CDT), which was 36 kts sustained (barely tropical storm) gusting to 62 kts. Considering nearby gusts at KMIS, I'd guess that power has been lost to that station (or the transmission network is down and the observations cannot be disseminated). Let me know if you come across a later update!

Oops on the GMT! I'm not good at typing fast and thinking at the same time. Yeah, their readings are just too suspect. I will keep looking around.

[SunnyThoughts]

WWLTV.COM has some awesome live footage going on at times, (New orelans area) for those who are interested. Presser going on right now, but picture in picture shows the live shots.

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[Puddinhead]

Just lost power in my NOLA Gentilly neighborhood for about five minutes. Surprised we got it back so quickly; I thought we were down for the count! LOL