DECODED METARS
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ID DATE TIME TEMP DEW WIND CEILING VIS ALTIM WEATHER
KMSY 08-29 0200 81 75 NE 31 None 10 2956 Windy
Question - listening to a plane in the eye of the hurricane... What is the top of the hurricane? To what altitude do the hurricane winds extend? Is there a typical answer?
...PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHILE THE HURRICANE WILL WEAKEN AS IT MOVES INLAND MONDAY...THE
HURRICANE WILL LIKELY STILL BE A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE UP TO THE
HIGHWAY 98 CORRIDOR. KATRINA WILL STILL BE A HURRICANE WELL INTO
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...AND A STRONG TROPICAL STORM AS IT MOVES INTO
NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI.
PEOPLE NEED TO COMPLETE PRECAUTIONS NOW FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR VERY
STRONG...DAMAGING WINDS. LOOSE OBJECTS OUTDOORS SHOULD BE MOVED
INSIDE. PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF PROLONGED POWER OUTAGES OF
SEVERAL DAYS TO PERHAPS A FEW WEEKS. PEOPLE RESIDING IN HOMES THAT
ARE NOT WELL CONSTRUCTED WILL WANT TO MOVE TO SAFER ALTERNATIVE
LOCATIONS TO RIDE THE PASSAGE OF THE STORM OUT...PARTICULARLY OVER
AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 55 WHERE THE VERY
STRONGEST WINDS COULD OCCUR.
THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS SITUATION CANNOT BE OVEREMPHASIZED!
HURRICANE KATRINA IS THE SAME STRENGTH AS HURRICANE CAMILLE WHEN IT
MADE LANDFALL IN 1969...BUT IS EVEN LARGER IN SIZE...MEANING THE
POTENTIAL DAMAGE MAY COVER A MORE EXTENSIVE AREA. IT IS BECOMING
INCREASINGLY LIKELY THAT KATRINA WILL CAUSE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE ACROSS
PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSISSIPPI ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT.
THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION...DO NOT TAKE IT
LIGHTLY! PLEASE FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS OF STATE...COUNTY AND LOCAL
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS WITH REGARD TO EVACUATIONS AND
PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIES.
Just a note: All broadcast news from NOLA has been terminated to allow personel to evacuate. Live streaming feeds on those stations have been switched to sister stations in Baton Rouge, Biloxi and Orlando.
Some good news I guess, if you can call it that is that She's weakining. Pressure has risen to 908mb's and the eyewall is starting to deteriorate. The winds at down to 160 and landfall is expected at 150-155mph. The downside is the eyewall deteriorating. They say this usually results in the winds spreadying, meaning the 200 mile wide swath of hurrican force winds may increase to 260 miles wide, 130 miles out from the center. though it has also jogged about 5 -10 miles to the east, placing it just east of New Orleans, and placing it in the worst case scenario of the front of the storm bringing the storm surge into Lake Pontchatrain and the the West side of the eyes Northerly winds, pushing that water into New Orleans from the Lake.
It looks to me to be a valid NOAA server (srh is "Southern Regional Headquarters") although I cannot find it by clicking around on the NOAA site itself. It may have been superseded.
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