ATL: Tropical Depression Dolly

[Enzo Aquarius]

Cameron County (non-Brownsville) has reached 62% power outage. Nueces is slowly creeping upwards.

[CrazyC83]

Cameron County (non-Brownsville) has reached 62% power outage. Nueces is slowly creeping upwards.

Soon we'll have to watch the counties inland as well.

Those numbers do not include whatever it is in Mexico either.

[HurricaneHunter914]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t2/avn.jpg
It looks like Dolly tried to become better organized before landfall. You can see the eye is more symmetrical and a few reds are popping on the NE side.

[Ed Mahmoud]

From Chron pictures linked above


Lixion Avila's hands

[Cyclenall]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t2/avn.jpg
It looks like Dolly tried to become better organized before landfall. You can see the eye is more symmetrical and a few reds are popping on the NE side.

Yes, the eye isn't all that bad looking in the latest image.

[KWT]

Yeah quite possibly HurricaneHunter914, interestingly the very shallow bay waters may help to stop it from weakening for a breif while until it gets over true land.

[artist]

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Only 2400 year round residents, so no surprise that they send people to the inland central city for hospital care. Did EMS bring him in, or are they in a period of non-response because it's too dangerous to go out?[/quote]
according to their ema manager on s padre they are waiting to coordinate with the NWS as to when it will be safe to cross the bridge with him. Seem s he broke a leg, hip and I thought she said he broke his neck as well.

[CrazyC83]

It probably weakened a little bit before landfall though. My guess for South Padre landfall is 85 kt, but I think it was 90 kt at 1500Z per Doppler radar.

If I wrote the best track right now (of course without full data), my intensities would be since the intensification trend began:

23/1200 - 55 kt - 993mb
22/1800 - 60 kt - 986mb
23/0000 - 70 kt - 982mb
23/0600 - 75 kt - 978mb
23/1200 - 85 kt - 966mb
23/1800 - 85 kt - 967mb

23/1500 - 90 kt - 964mb (peak intensity)
23/1750 - 85 kt - 967mb (landfall)

[jabman98]

Question about the link to the Fox News live stream from S.Padre Island - it looks to me like it's showing Galveston. The long piers going out into the water, only a few taller hotels, the road right next to the seawall - with cars driving along it. It looks just like Galveston.

Does anyone have a link to live streaming for SPI? Or is it defaulting to Galveston now? Or is SPI completely different than I remember and the storm is all gone?

[jlauderdal]

From Chron pictures linked above


Lixion Avila's hands

wheres the abacus and slide rule, no wonder these guys cant get track and intensity correct, lol.

[raindrops68]

MNSBC reported he broke his leg and hip but nothing about his neck. Just hope he will be ok. Guess he wont be doing that again.

Ok I'm looking at the Galveston/Houston radar and the bands coming onto Galveston are dying out, why? Looking out in the Gulf it looks like Galveston/Houston will get some good rain then it just peters out

[Enzo Aquarius]

STRONG TROPICAL STORM TO HURRICANE FORCE WINDS CONTINUE TO PERSIST
OVER CAMERON AND WILLACY COUNTY...AS THE EYE OF POWERFUL HURRICANE
DOLLY CONTINUES TO MOVE ONSHORE.

SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 65 AND 75 MILES PER HOUR...WITH FREQUENT
GUSTS BETWEEN 70 AND 80 MILES PER HOUR...WILL OCCUR OVER INLAND
WILLACY AND INLAND CAMERON COUNTY THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF
HOURS...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 80 AND 90 MILES PER HOUR...
WITH FREQUENT GUSTS BETWEEN 85 AND 100 MILES PER HOUR...OCCURRING
OVER COASTAL CAMERON AND COASTAL WILLACY COUNTY.

NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DAMAGE HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE GENERAL
PUBLIC AND COUNTY OFFICIALS IN PORT ISABEL...SOUTH PADRE ISLAND...
BROWNSVILLE...HARLINGEN...PORT MANSFIELD...AND LOS FRESNOS.

[Brent]

Question about the link to the Fox News live stream from S.Padre Island - it looks to me like it's showing Galveston. The long piers going out into the water, only a few taller hotels, the road right next to the seawall - with cars driving along it. It looks just like Galveston.

Does anyone have a link to live streaming for SPI? Or is it defaulting to Galveston now? Or is SPI completely different than I remember and the storm is all gone?

I think the SPI cam got knocked out and it defaulted back to that.

[Tireman4]

The rivers rising will be something to worry about.


http://ahps.srh.noaa.gov/ahps2/index.ph ... 8,2,9,15,6

[TexWx]

"Raindrops68"

High pressure I'm assuming...

[HouTXmetro]

MNSBC reported he broke his leg and hip but nothing about his neck. Just hope he will be ok. Guess he wont be doing that again.

Ok I'm looking at the Galveston/Houston radar and the bands coming onto Galveston are dying out, why? Looking out in the Gulf it looks like Galveston/Houston will get some good rain then it just peters out

I think the air was quite stable in Metro Houston from the morning storms. However it appears a new line of storms are beggining to form south of the belt and may push through.

[PTrackerLA]

I expect quite a bit of damage in Harlingen as the western eyewall approaches.

[artist]

Question about the link to the Fox News live stream from S.Padre Island - it looks to me like it's showing Galveston. The long piers going out into the water, only a few taller hotels, the road right next to the seawall - with cars driving along it. It looks just like Galveston.

Does anyone have a link to live streaming for SPI? Or is it defaulting to Galveston now? Or is SPI completely different than I remember and the storm is all gone?

it defaulted back to Galveston when it got too bad. TWC is saying it is still too bad to get out there yet. Said they have been riding the eyewall for hours now. I did that once. Hopefully never again.

[green eyed girl]

TEXWX, how is your cousin?

[raindrops68]

Thank you Tex Wx & HouTXmetro