ATL: Tropical Depression Dolly

[HURAKAN]

"Although it weakened prior to making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane near the Texas/Louisiana border, Rita produced significant storm surge that devastated coastal communities in southwestern Louisiana, and its winds, rain, and tornadoes caused fatalities and a wide swath of damage from eastern Texas to Alabama."

"landfall between Johnson’s Bayou, LA and Sabine Pass, TX."

Link: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL182005_Rita.pdf

That's why I considered Rita a Texas landfall.

[Wx_Warrior]

There you have it...Believe me. I was here when she landed. We had reporters in Sabine Pass and that pointed their cameras up into the sky taking photos when some of the eye was passing over.

[HarlequinBoy]

Radar estimating 11 inches of rain in coastal Cameron.

[Steve]

>>Rita accounts some say Sabine Pass (TX) others claim Johnson Bayou (La).

Forget what they say. Look at the eye coming in:

http://billday.com/Images/Blogged/Hurri ... l.anim.gif

National coverage was a joke in that all they focused on was Galveston and Houston and forgot everything else up the coast of Texas toward Lake Charles. It was one time the media got stung by their own sensationalism. I was watching it from Dauphin Island and someone with a sat phone on CNN was the first person to report from Lake Charles and Sulphur where the early damage was until Rita demolished lots of the the border area between LA/TX.

Steve

PS - here's the radar shot:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _radar.gif

It doesn't really matter, but still...

[galvbay]

Port Mansfield is going getting spanked right now.

[Brent]

From Wikipedia:

Rita made landfall on September 24 between Sabine Pass, Texas and Johnsons Bayou, Louisiana, as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.

I think it was right over the river that formed the boundary. The strongest winds would have been in Louisiana though.

REPORTS FROM AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT AND
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WSR-88D RADARS INDICATE THAT RITA MADE
LANDFALL JUST EAST OF SABINE PASS ABOUT 0730Z

Technically LA but I consider it both.

Anyway, back to Dolly, she sure is taking her sweet time.

[CrazyC83]

CNN: Rio Grande should hold up. No reports of injuries or major flooding yet.

[RL3AO]

LEFT: 1 hour rainfall estimated from radar (see key on left)
RIGHT: Reflectivity

[Steve]

>>CNN: Rio Grande should hold up. No reports of injuries or major flooding yet.

Flash Flood Warning out for Brownsville as the eye creeps in ever so slowly. This is going to be a nasty bunch of hours ahead. FWIW, the left front quadrant (SW part of the storm in this case) appears to be the worst part of the storm based on radar and enhanced IR:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid= ... 1&loop=yes

Steve

[Enzo Aquarius]

None of the river gauges in the area, as listed by the NWS, are in flood stages yet.

Tornado warning north of Corpus Christi has been lifted.

[jacindc]

It's also worth remembering that the reports you hear first in the media are often the places that didn't get hit quite so badly, sometimes leading to the false impression (like with Rita) that the storm wasn't so bad. It's the places that *did* get hit, who don't have power or cell, that can't report in right away.

[CajunMama]

Let's stick to dolly and not debate where rita made landfall

[kurtpage]

None of the river gauges in the area, as listed by the NWS, are in flood stages yet.

Tornado warning north of Corpus Christi has been lifted.

Is there an online link to these gauges?

[Enzo Aquarius]

None of the river gauges in the area, as listed by the NWS, are in flood stages yet.

Tornado warning north of Corpus Christi has been lifted.

Is there an online link to these gauges?

http://ahps.srh.noaa.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=bro

Too bad there aren't a lot of gauges in the area.

[kurtpage]

None of the river gauges in the area, as listed by the NWS, are in flood stages yet.

Tornado warning north of Corpus Christi has been lifted.

Is there an online link to these gauges?

http://ahps.srh.noaa.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=bro

Too bad there aren't a lot of gauges in the area.

Thank you very much!

[KWT]

Amazing RL3AO radar estimating a fairly wide region of 3-4 inches per hour, thats really going to whack up the rainfall totals I reckon, hardly surprising though given how potent the SW eyewall is in terms of precip.

[Cyclenall]

Strongest hurricane to hit Texas since Rita, I believe, and the strongest since Bret, 1999.

No Rita was much stronger.

South Texas yes but not all of Texas.

Just best to read "since Rita" and end there

Thus far, the hurricane is about what I expected it would be. It appears that Port Isabel was a good choice for chasing it for those doing so.

[Enzo Aquarius]

Nonetheless, the gauge at Brownsville is showing a quick increase in water levels. It's at 7.87 feet, flood stage is 27 feet.

http://ahps.srh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrogra ... ,1,1,1,1,1

[TexWx]

Just got a message from my cousin, they are holding the backdoor...

man..

[ronjon]

SPI taking a bad hit according to NWS BRO.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bro/news/2008/dolly_news_update.htm