TD 10 spawns EF-1 tornado in Florida; new disturbance a threat to Texas and Louisiana
Tropical Depression Ten moved ashore last night over the Florida Panhandle, bringing rains of 1-5 inches over the region (Figure 1). The most serious weather associated with the depression occurred when a tornado ripped through Eustis, Florida at 11 pm Friday night. The EF-1 tornado had winds up to 105 mph, and damaged about 100 homes. The remnants of TD Ten are over southern Mississippi this morning, and additional severe weather or heavy rain is not expected.
Figure 1. Estimated rainfall for TD 10 from the Tallahassee, Florida radar.
Western Caribbean disturbance 94L
An area of disturbed weather in the western Caribbean between the Yucatan Peninsula and Jamaica is associated with a surface trough of low pressure. NHC designated this area "94L" this morning. Satellite loops show that the heavy thunderstorm activity has increased today in the region, but remains disorganized. A buoy in the region recorded sustained winds of 31 knots, gusting to 35 at 4:50 am EDT. The winds have since subsided to 20 knots. Cancun radar shows heavy rains have already moved ashore over the eastern Yucatan. This morning's QuikSCAT pass showed no signs of a circulation, and very little evidence of even a wind shift in the region. Thus, the earliest I expect 94L can become a tropical depression is Sunday afternoon. An Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate 94L Sunday afternoon.
This disturbance will bring heavy rains to Belize, Cozumel, Cancun, and western Cuba today as it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula. Moisture streaming northwards from the disturbance will also cause locally heavy rains across the Florida Peninsula. Wind shear has dropped to about 10 knots over the disturbance, and the NOGAPS and GFS models predict this shear will stay low enough to allow a tropical depression to form on Sunday when 94L crosses into the Gulf of Mexico. By Monday afternoon, my best guess is that 94L will make landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border. That doesn't give it much time to organize into a tropical depression or tropical storm. Today's 12Z (8 am EDT) run of the GFDL model did not develop 94L. The 12Z SHIPS model developed it into a 45-mph tropical storm by Monday morning. Regardless, Texas and/or Louisiana can expect very heavy rains Monday and Tuesday from this system.
Elsewhere in the tropics
A few clumps of heavy thunderstorm activity exist along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), about 800-1200 miles east of the southernmost Lesser Antilles. This activity is moving west at 10-15 mph, and is very disorganized. Nevertheless, the region is under only about 10 knots of wind shear, so we will need to watch this area for development. A tropical wave near 6N, 23W, about 60 miles south of the Cape Verdes Islands off the coast of Africa, has some vigorous thunderstorm activity associated with it. This morning's 4:30 am EDT ASCAT pass showed a nearly complete circulation, and visible satellite images also show a fair bit of spin. This wave has the potential to develop into a tropical depression early next week as it moves westward at 15 mph.
I'll be traveling Sunday, and will not post a blog if the Western Caribbean disturbance fizzles. Otherwise, I'll post something late Sunday afternoon when the Hurricane Hunter mission sends back data.
Jeff Masters
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Drakoen,if this wave in the CATL were to develop,what sort of track do you thing it would take?I think i should watch this wave because i live in Trinidad.
no way to tell where it will go in the long term however upper level troughs have been eroding the riding therefore a WNW in the short to mid term seems likely.
Most likely. Although the further north it moves the more shear its going to be getting into.
JLPR,
Most likely. Although the further north it moves the more shear its going to be getting into.
umm i see come shear come
lol :P
Know what you mean.. weather reports werenot all that in the 90's..
Left Charleston on a 106 ft tug heading to Savahna 60 nm light to light..3 days later we tied up at the dock on River street..
18 to 20 foot seas aint no pleasure cruise... Weather fax just didn't quite catch it
95L Landfall Probs:
(Heres the only time no one will argue with the innocent Doc on here)
Out to sea: 100%
Well you never know, tropical cyclones do strange things.
Posted By: zoomiami at 12:58 AM GMT on September 23, 2007.
Storm: I know that its really early - but do you have a general idea of what direction the african waves are headed?
Give me about 3 minutes to get back to ya!
Here is a quickcast...lokking at the 12Z steering layers forecast maps...starting with 94L...should maintain a basic NW course for about the next 60 hours. the wave east of the Windward Islands should start to get a more northerly component to it in about 36 hours, as a weakness appears in the ridge. Once that track starts, it should follow that for about 48 hours...two thoughts I have right now on it...goes through the weakness and becomes a fish, or if it moves slow enough, it slows or stalls, then gets kicked back west by the ridge that slides off the east coast of the U.S. in 72-84 hours. The African wave...west for the next 24-36 hours, then it gets a more northerly componet (not too much I think) then the ridge strengthens again. So basically with that one W to WNW for a while.
I really have to get busy, was going to put a pic of my dog on but not weather related, gave him a haircut and he is SO cute. Bichon, the golden Lab is fine too.
The low south of the Cape Verde's will most likely move towards the NW into the weakness provided by the mid-oceanic trough/TUTT as well.
Although its far south initial latitude will prevent this from happening as quickly. Models still have a SW-NE oriented trough cutting through the central atlantic for the next 5 days at least.
Maybe water restrictions might ease (crossing fingers).
ABNT20 KNHC 230226
TWOAT
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1030 PM EDT SAT SEP 22 2007
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
THE BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA
AND THE YUCATAN PENINSULA HAS CHANGED LITTLE IN ORGANIZATION DURING
THE PAST FEW HOURS...AND CONTINUES TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A LARGE
AREA OF CLOUDINESS AND THUNDERSTORMS. UPPER-LEVEL WINDS
ARE FAVORABLE FOR SOME DEVELOPMENT WHEN THE LOW EMERGES
OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE THAT THE NON-TROPICAL LOW LOCATED ABOUT
850 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES IS ON THE VERGE OF BECOMING
A SUBTROPICAL OR TROPICAL CYCLONE. LITTLE MOTION IS EXPECTED
DURING THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS...BUT THEREAFTER...THE SYSTEM SHOULD
BEGIN TO MOVE TOWARD THE NORTHEAST OVER THE OPEN ATLANTIC.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A WESTWARD MOVING TROPICAL
WAVE HAVE BECOME MORE CONCENTRATED ABOUT 550 MILES EAST OF THE
WINDWARD ISLANDS. THERE ARE SOME INDICATIONS THAT THE SYSTEM IS
BECOMING A LITTLE BETTER ORGANIZED BUT ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT...IF
ANY...SHOULD BE SLOW TO OCCUR.
THE BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE PASSING ABOUT 550 MILES SOUTH OF THE
CAPE VERDE ISLANDS REMAINS WELL-ORGANIZED. THIS SYSTEM HAS THE
POTENTIAL TO BECOME A TROPICAL DEPRESSION AS IT MOVES WESTWARD AT
15 MPH DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
THE AREA OF CLOUDINESS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST OF
THE LEEWARD ISLANDS NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE ATLANTIC FOR SEVERAL
HUNDRED MILES REMAINS DISORGANIZED. UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE HIGHLY
UNFAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.
$$
FORECASTER AVILA/BLAKE
Can't imagine the F-4 going under that bridge inverted though - yikes! What a sight!
Food For Thought
We got drenched and flooded here in North Florida earlier in the week - am glad that S Fla is getting some now too.
When the fuse blowes here. I just power up the ol grundig & tune in the world lol
My daughter thinks its funny that when I took Chemistry in high school we did not have calculators and had to use slide rules...
And that we had rotary phones, black and white TV's, and that the only computers were mainframes!
Ooops - I'm dating myself aren't I...
But how much more persistance do they need. This is why I believe that there should be set guidelines for naming INVESTS just like they have for naming tropical storms. That way all systems will get treated fairly and not based on the "opinion" of a forecaster.
SLU~that spin is well under 10N. Most storms don't survive long that south.
Its near 8N so its not too far below 10N. Its has been gaining some latitude today.
SLU~that spin is well under 10N. Most storms don't survive long that south.
Its true that there isn't enough coriolis force that far south but many cyclones have been spawned off seedlings as far south as this one.
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