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Floods kill 16 in Arkansas; dozens missing
Posted by: Dr. Jeff Masters, 4:24 PM GMT on June 11, 2010 +2
Heavy rains in excess of seven inches fell over southwestern Arkansas overnight, triggering flash floods that killed at least sixteen people in Caddo Gap, in the rugged Ouachita Mountains. Forty people are missing, with dozens injured. The closest weather station to the disaster is Mount Ida, which recorded 7.16" of rain over the past 48 hours. The USGS is reporting that the Caddo River in Caddo Gap rose from 8.4 feet at 3am CDT to 25.39 feet in just five hours, reaching the 2nd highest flood height on the river since records began in 1989. The Little Missouri River west of Caddo Gap rose 20 feet overnight, from 3 feet to 23.5 feet. The previous highest flood in the 22-year record at this location was just 14.66 feet, set in 2008. You can look at local rainfall amounts and river flood levels in the region using our wundermap with the "USGS River" layer turned on.

Andy Revkin at the New York Times has a blog worth reading on the disaster.


Figure 1. Radar estimated rainfall for June 9 - 11 over Southwest Arkansas. Rainfall amounts in excess of eight inches are indicated for Caddo Gap, where today's flood disaster occurred.

Oil spill update
Southeast to south winds of 10 - 15 knots will blow today through Saturday, according to the latest marine forecast from NOAA. These winds will keep oil near the shores of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and the extreme western Florida Panhandle, according to the latest trajectory forecasts from NOAA and the State of Louisiana. The winds become light an variable Sunday through Tuesday, which will result in little movement of the spill. The long range 8 - 16 day forecast from the GFS model indicates a continued regime of light winds, mostly out of the south or southeast. This wind regime will likely push oil onto sections of the eastern Louisiana coast during the period 1 - 2 weeks from now.


Figure 2. The oil spill as imaged on June 10, 2010, by NASA's Aqua satellite.

Oil spill resources
My post, What a hurricane would do the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
NOAA's fact sheet on Hurricanes and the Oil Spill
My post on the Southwest Florida "Forbidden Zone" where surface oil will rarely go
My post on what oil might do to a hurricane
Oil trajectory forecasts from NOAA
Gulf Oil Blog from the UGA Department of Marine Sciences
Oil Spill Academic Task Force
University of South Florida Ocean Circulation Group oil spill forecasts
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the University of Miami

The tropical Atlantic is quiet right now, with no models predicting tropical cyclone development over the next seven days. I'll have a new post either Saturday or Monday.

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3301. MiamiHurricanes09 4:22 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Levi32:
LOL @ the 0z GFS...splits the energy of the system in two pieces.

60 hours:

LOL!
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3302. Hurricanes101 4:22 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Yea and if the CMC and NOGAPS outplays the other models on this one, then everything we thought we knew about the tropics is all out of whack now lol
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3303. Levi32 4:22 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Drakoen:
If this develops I wonder what that says about the ECMWF...


The GFS would also deserve credit for seeing this thing coming off and being a potential problem farther in advance than even the ECMWF.
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3305. xcool 4:22 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
HMMM CMC GOOD JOB HA
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3306. MrstormX 4:22 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Levi32:
LOL @ the 0z GFS...splits the energy of the system in two pieces.

60 hours:



What a joke the GFS has become.
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3307. Levi32 4:22 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Hurricanes101:
Yea and if the CMC and NOGAPS outplays the other models on this one, then everything we thought we knew about the tropics is all out of whack now lol


It already is...lol.
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3308. stormpetrol 4:22 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Throw the models out the window, 92L is very close TD status if not a TD already in my opinion.
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3309. CybrTeddy 4:23 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
ECMWF developed 90L. So that tells you how well its been doing this year already.
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3310. hurricane23 4:23 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Drakoen:
If this develops I wonder what that says about the ECMWF...


Think theres a brief window for a possible tropical depression to develope with an outside chance at ts before it runs into that shear zone ahead.
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3311. xcool 4:24 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
CMC KILL ECMWF IMO NO Question
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3312. CaneWarning 4:24 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
I'm not sure the shear is as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Also, look at the shear forecast. Am I just looking at it wrong?
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3314. Drakoen 4:24 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Levi32:


The GFS would also deserve credit for seeing this thing coming off and being a potential problem farther in advance than even the ECMWF.


I am saying the ECMWF doesn't deserve any credit.
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3315. JLPR2 4:25 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
looks good
I wonder what will happen at D-max :S
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3316. Levi32 4:25 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting scott39:
I do want to know how concerned you are about 92L( possibly future Alex) potientially effecting land?


That's kinda far out there right now, but the only concern within the next week will be the eastern Caribbean islands. A northerly track taking its towards PR or north of would likely result in a weak system or open wave that isn't much of a threat. If it's a more southerly track we could be possibly talking about a TS, but that's assuming this develops within the next 36-48 hours. I'd like to see this decide if it's going to become a TD or not before I speculate too much on impacts to land, which are still many days away.
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3317. scott39 4:25 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Do models collect data from past seasons?
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3318. Drakoen 4:25 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting hurricane23:


Think theres a brief window for a possible tropical depression to develope with an outside chance at ts before it runs into that shear zone ahead.


If it stays south of 15N it may potentially survive longer...
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3319. Tazmanian 4:25 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting CaneWarning:
I'm not sure the shear is as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Also, look at the shear forecast. Am I just looking at it wrong?



i said that same thing when we had IKE in 2008
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3320. NCHurricane2009 4:25 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting stormpetrol:
Throw the models out the window, 92L is very close TD status if not a TD already in my opinion.


Sometimes we put models on a pedestal too much. Models can give some insight, but when you see something happening now (like 92L having a well-defined center) and the models telling you it doesnt' for instance, ignore that model.
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3321. MiamiHurricanes09 4:26 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Drakoen:


I am saying the ECMWF doesn't deserve any credit.
Exactly.
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3322. FLWeatherFreak91 4:26 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting scott39:
Do models collect data from past seasons?
They're updated to include climatology on a regular basis.
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3323. spathy 4:26 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Link


Is that too big?
Please tell me I m bad with this stuff.

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/storm.asp?storm_identifier=AL922010


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3324. ElConando 4:26 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Levi32:


I guess that's what we mere mortals are for :)


Does the sun go fully down where you live Levi. I know in some places there, the sun may go down but there is still twilight all the way till sunrise.
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3325. AussieStorm 4:27 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Remember, all the ingredients are all there and they are there above normal levels, anything can happen, even in June.


20%, much more chance than the last wave they put 0% on.
SAL ain't a problem.

Shear isn't really a problem.


Only thing i can see that might stop it from developing is it's position.
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3326. Tazmanian 4:27 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting stormpetrol:
Throw the models out the window, 92L is very close TD status if not a TD already in my opinion.


then you have to pay for a new window
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3327. Levi32 4:27 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Drakoen:


I am saying the ECMWF doesn't deserve any credit.


Well it did start showing this 3 days ago I think, but not before all the other global models were showing something as well.
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3328. spathy 4:27 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Darn it JLPR
Ya beat me to it!
Oh well two times good info!
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3329. scott39 4:29 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting FLWeatherFreak91:
They're updated to include climatology on a regular basis.
Do you think they might have some problems getting a grip on 92L, as far as intensity and track, because they have never dealt with one like this in June before?
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3330. JLPR2 4:29 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting spathy:
Darn it JLPR
Ya beat me to it!
Oh well two times good info!


XD
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3331. Levi32 4:29 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Old convection dying, new cells already exploding upward with cold tops. This is a sign that 92L is not about to dissipate after the first burst of convection the way every other disturbance has so far this year. The upward motion in the area is solid and the heat/moisture in the air is getting utilized by the system.

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3332. Drakoen 4:29 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Levi32:


Well it did start showing this 3 days ago I think, but not before all the other global models were showing something as well.


I don't consider this to be development on the ECMWF model which has the best resolution out of all the models...
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3333. xcool 4:29 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Tazmanian LMAO
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3334. hurricane23 4:29 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
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3335. Tazmanian 4:30 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting AussieStorm:



20%, much more chance than the last wave they put 0% on.
SAL ain't a problem.

Shear isn't really a problem.


Only thing i can see that might stop it from developing is it's position.



was that needed???? that commet he posted is way pass the page we are on all so hes a downcaster dont think any one needed too see that commets post
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3336. ElConando 4:30 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
still kinda ragged to like to see how it reacts in the mid to late after noon tomorrow.
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3337. stormpetrol 4:30 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Tazmanian:


then you have to pay for a new window

better than having to pay for the models lmao!
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3338. Levi32 4:31 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting ElConando:


Does the sun go fully down where you live Levi. I know in some places there, the sun may go down but there is still twilight all the way till sunrise.


We don't get a pitch black night here, which is only 5 hours 22 minutes long right now, but it gets dark.
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3339. Levi32 4:31 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Drakoen:


I don't consider this to be development on the ECMWF model which has the best resolution out of all the models...


Well I must admit, I was more drawn to the 959mb hurricane it had in the eastern Pacific..lol.
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3340. MiamiHurricanes09 4:32 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Well I'm tired (yawn) I'm heading to bed. I'll see you guys in the morning. By the way the current time over the system is 1:30 AM.

0300 UTC



Have a great night all!
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3341. xcool 4:32 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
stormpetrol HAHA
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3342. beell 4:33 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
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3343. Hurricanes101 4:33 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    


Quoting Levi32:


Well I must admit, I was more drawn to the 959mb hurricane it had in the eastern Pacific..lol.


which it completely missed on too lol
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3344. NCHurricane2009 4:33 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting ElConando:
still kinda ragged to like to see how it reacts in the mid to late after noon tomorrow.


By then, it'll probably have been TD1
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3345. AussieStorm 4:34 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting Tazmanian:



was that needed???? that commet he posted is way pass the page we are on all so hes a downcaster dont think any one needed too see that commets post

If you haven't noticed,I have since removed it.
BTW, I didn't remove it cause of your comment, just take a chill pill man. you need to chillax.
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3346. antonio28 4:34 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
I am just cheking in so do we have 92L?
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3347. Hurricanes101 4:34 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
I just noticed that after my original fail of saying May 25th for the 1st named storm, I said we would have our first system on June 13th, amazing that I could be right

but there is a 1st time for everything lol
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3348. CybrTeddy 4:35 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting antonio28:
I am just cheking in so do we have 92L?


For about 6 hours now yea.
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3349. Hurricanes101 4:35 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Quoting antonio28:
I am just cheking in so do we have 92L?


yup, was designated about 8 hours ago
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3350. stormpetrol 4:35 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
Goodnight everyone, well we'll see what tomorrow brings with 92L
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3351. wunderkidcayman 4:35 AM GMT on June 13, 2010    
is this...does this...wait... is this a td now...no...wait...yes...what is goin on here


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