Hurricane Ida

[South AL Wx]

Category 4!

...MAJOR HURRICANE IDA CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN...
...NOW A DANGEROUS CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE...

Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft and NOAA
Doppler weather radars indicate that Hurricane Ida has continued to
rapidly intensify this Sunday morning. Maximum sustained winds are
now estimated to be 130 mph (215 km/h). This makes Ida a category 4
hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Ida's central pressure has fallen 6 millibars during the past hour.

SUMMARY OF 200 AM CDT...0700 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...27.7N 88.8W
ABOUT 100 MI...160 KM S OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ABOUT 175 MI...280 KM SE OF HOUMA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...130 MPH...215 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 320 DEGREES AT 15 MPH...24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...949 MB...28.02 INCHES

 

[Lori]

Aunt Ida is feeding of the warm gulf, getting so mean!! I hope the residents in the path took this seriously!!

 

[Chris3024]

Sustained winds up to 140 mph with pressure down to 946 mb. She may just barely hit Cat 5 before landfall.

 

[Kory]

Just called my parents. Begged them to leave. My mom and grandma and getting in the car now and getting out. My dad is staying behind. Neighbor is also staying. Yeah…no words right now.

 

[Richardjacks]

Winds are now up to 145 mph.

Just called my parents. Begged them to leave. My mom and grandma and getting in the car now and getting out. My dad is staying behind. Neighbor is also staying. Yeah…no words right now.

Where are they?

 

[Fred Gossage]

Recon plane that was in the eye in time for these past couple of advisory updates has measured a minimum pressure of 935mb with dropsondes. The second plane that was in at the same time has just gotten an estimated pressure of 932mb. Waiting for drops from it. This is making a hard run at Category 5.

 

[Brice Wood]

Sustained winds were reported around 150MPH, about 30 minutes ago…….. Cat 5 definitely has a chance.

 

[Fred Gossage]

Latest dropsonde from the first plane on its third pass through the eye shows a 942mb pressure with sfc winds still over 100 kts... it caught that sfc pressure just outside the southwest eyewall. That could possibly imply lower 930s or even upper 920s in the eye itself.

 

[Fred Gossage]

Dropsonde from the eye measures 934mb at surface with 9 kt sfc wind (suggesting it may be a millibar or two lower in reality).

 

[South AL Wx]

Pressure down to 933 mb on the 7 am advisory.

Now forecast to reach 155 mph (category 5 starts at 156 mph), and NHC says this in the discussion:

This special advisory is issued to raise the 12-hour forecast intensity to 135 kt, but it is possible that Ida could peak slightly above that before landfall occurs.

 

[Fred Gossage]

145 kt flight-level barb. Also just got a dropsonde just outside the eye with a 937mb pressure with 60 kt sfc winds. We may have a 5 on our hands now...

 

[Fred Gossage]

Second plane hasn't released a new eye drop but has multiple eye estimates in the 920s.

 

[warneagle]

It's got the classic "buzzsaw" appearance now.

 

[Richardjacks]

It's got the classic "buzzsaw" appearance now.

yes, the transformation over the past hours is just amazing.

 

[warneagle]

What a monster

 

[Richardjacks]

929mb

 

[Richardjacks]

that's still 3mb drop per hour, could it end up in the 910 range before landfall???

 

[Richardjacks]

lightning increasing on southern eye wall

 

[warneagle]

Tornado warning including Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre, I think that's the first one so far unless there were some overnight.

 

[Mr. Clark]

Tornado warning including Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre, I think that's the first one so far unless there were some overnight.

Pretty sure there was one at Bay St. Louis, MS earlier.