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Hurricane Hurricane Barry (Gulf of Mexico)

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They keep showing Mandeville’s lakefront on TWC. This happens every time there is a tropical system. Meanwhile my neighborhood is high and dry less than a mile away. Come to think of it, the streets are barely wet.
 

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Tropical Storm Barry Advisory Number 15
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL022019
1000 PM CDT Sat Jul 13 2019

...DANGEROUS STORM SURGE AND WIND CONDITIONS CONTINUING ACROSS THE
NORTH-CENTRAL GULF COAST...
...HEAVY RAINS AND LIFE-THREATENING FLOODING EXPECTED TO SPREAD
NORTHWARD ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY...


SUMMARY OF 1000 PM CDT...0300 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...31.0N 93.0W
ABOUT 35 MI...60 KM SW OF ALEXANDRIA LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...50 MPH...85 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNW OR 340 DEGREES AT 8 MPH...13 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1002 MB...29.59 INCHES


WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY...

The Tropical Storm Warning from the Mouth of the Mississippi River
to east of Grand Isle has been discontinued.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT...

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...
* Grand Isle to Cameron
* Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas including metropolitan New
Orleans

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for...
* Intracoastal City to Biloxi
* Lake Pontchartrain
 

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A few light sprinkles so far here; even a landfalling hurricane can't break the anti rain shield. Gonna have to start xeriscaping with cacti soon I guess.
 

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The Alabama defensive line is holding. You'd think I'd posted in the wrong thread, but no.
 

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Major flooding from Barry ongoing in Central and SW Louisiana.

That upper level low is helping pulling the moisture plume that Barry created up and over the same areas. Really curious where it goes, because it could keep training rain bands up for a while if it doesn't get on out of east texas.
 

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That upper level low is helping pulling the moisture plume that Barry created up and over the same areas. Really curious where it goes, because it could keep training rain bands up for a while if it doesn't get on out of east texas.
Yep. Took a while but forecasts of 2+ feet of rain look to verify over southwest and central Louisiana. The media is already running with the story of Louisiana dodging the worst as people are being rescued from houses.
 

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Is there a local geographic feature there that may have amplified the surge? Seems like that might be an important question to answer for emergency preparedness there in the future.
 

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Just wanted to include this local weather update from local channel 4 because it shows how HUGE (and, finally, well organized) TD "Barry" is now, and also gives rain totals in central Louisiana:

 

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Is there a local geographic feature there that may have amplified the surge? Seems like that might be an important question to answer for emergency preparedness there in the future.
The bathymetry or the Gulf Coast, especially Mississippi and Louisiana, favor more amplified storm surges. But I’d think it’s more due to the fact the storm took forever to move in. Hurricane Issac in 2012 was the same. We had surges with Isaac that we’re well above the normal threshold for a strong category 1. It took almost a whole 24 hours to go from the Mouth of the Mississippi to Baton Rouge....a very slow mover.
 
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