{"id":47229,"date":"2020-08-23T18:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47229"},"modified":"2020-08-23T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T22:47:42","slug":"ts-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/08\/ts-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"TS Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BULLETIN\nTropical Storm Laura Advisory Number  16...Corrected\nNWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL       AL132020\n500 PM EDT Sun Aug 23 2020\n\nCorrected rainfall statement \n\n...AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT FINDS A SLIGHTLY STRONGER \nLAURA JUST SOUTH OF EASTERN CUBA...\n...HEAVY RAINFALL AND LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODING LIKELY OVER \nTHE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC...HAITI...CUBA...AND JAMAICA...\n\n\nSUMMARY OF 500 PM EDT...2100 UTC...INFORMATION\n----------------------------------------------\nLOCATION...19.5N 75.2W\nABOUT 50 MI...80 KM S OF GUANTANAMO CUBA\nABOUT 220 MI...350 KM SE OF CAMAGUEY CUBA\nMAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...60 MPH...95 KM\/H\nPRESENT MOVEMENT...WNW OR 285 DEGREES AT 21 MPH...33 KM\/H\nMINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1000 MB...29.53 INCHES\n\n\nWATCHES AND WARNINGS\n--------------------\nCHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY:\n\nThe government of the Cayman Islands has issued a Tropical Storm \nWarning for Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. \n\nThe Tropical Storm Watch for the the Florida Keys north of Craig\nKey and for Florida Bay has been discontinued.\n\nThe government of the Dominican Republic has discontinued all\nTropical Storm Warnings for the Dominican Republic.\n\nThe government of the Bahamas has discontinued the Tropical Storm\nWarning for the Turks and Caicos Islands, and for the southeastern\nBahamas except for Inagua and the Ragged Islands.  The Tropical\nStorm Watch for the central Bahamas and Andros Island has been\ndiscontinued.\n\n\nSUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:\n\nA Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for...\n* Entire coast of the Haiti\n* Inagua and the Ragged Islands in southeastern Bahamas\n* Little Cayman and Cayman Brac\n* Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Holguin, Guantanamo,\nSantiago de Cuba, Granma, Ciego De Avila, Sancti Spiritus, Villa\nClara, Cienfuegos, Matanzas, Mayabeque, La Habana, Artemisa, Pinar\ndel Rio, and the Isle of Youth\n\nA Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for...\n* Florida Keys from Craig Key to Key West and the Dry Tortugas\n\nThe Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are\nexpected somewhere within the warning area, in this case within the\nnext 12 to 24 hours.\n\nA Tropical Storm Watch means that tropical storm conditions are\npossible within the watch area, in this case within the next 24\nhours.\n\nFor storm information specific to your area in the United\nStates, including possible inland watches and warnings, please\nmonitor products issued by your local National Weather Service\nforecast office. For storm information specific to your area\noutside of the United States, please monitor products issued by\nyour national meteorological service.\n\n\nDISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK\n----------------------\nAt 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Laura was\nlocated near latitude 19.5 North, longitude 75.2 West. Laura is\nmoving toward the west-northwest near 21 mph (33 km\/h), and this\ngeneral motion with some decrease in forward speed is expected over\nthe next couple of days.  A turn toward the northwest is foreast by \nWednesday.  On the forecast track, the center of Laura will move\nnear or over southern coast Cuba tonight and Monday, and move over \nthe southeastern Gulf of Mexico Monday night and Tuesday.  Laura is \nexpected to move over the central and northwestern Gulf of Mexico \nTuesday night and Wednesday.\n\nData from an Air Force Reserve reconnaissance aircraft indicate that \nthe maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph (95 km\/h) with higher \ngusts. Little change in strength is forecast while Laura moves near \nthe southern coast of Cuba tonight. However, strengthening is \nforecast after the storm moves over the Gulf of Mexico, and Laura is \nforecast to become a hurricane late Tuesday or Tuesday night.\n\nTropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles (220 km)\nfrom the center.\n\nThe minimum central pressure estimated from reconnaissance aircraft \ndata is 1000 mb (29.53 inches).\n\n\nHAZARDS AFFECTING LAND\n----------------------\nRAINFALL:  Laura is expected to produce the following storm total \nrainfall accumulations through Tuesday:\n\nDominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba: 4 to 8 inches, with \nmaximum amounts of 12 inches.\n\nCayman Islands: 2 to 4 inches, maximum amounts of 6 inches.\n\nFlorida Keys, Turks and Caicos and southeast Bahamas: 1 to 2 inches.\n\nAcross the Greater Antilles this heavy rainfall could lead to \nlife-threatening flash and urban flooding, and the potential for \nmudslides. \n\nBy later Wednesday into Friday Laura is expected to produce rainfall \nof 5 to 10 inches, with isolated maximum amounts of 15 inches across \nportions of the west-central U.S. Gulf Coast near the Texas and \nLouisiana border north into portions of the lower Mississippi \nValley.  This rainfall could lead to flash, urban, and small stream \nflooding. \n\nWIND:  Tropical storm conditions are expected within portions of the \nwarning area in Haiti through this evening.  Tropical storm \nconditions are expected within portions of the warning area in Cuba \nlater tonight through Monday. Tropical storm conditions are expected \nin Little Cayman and Cayman Brac on Monday.  Tropical storm \nconditions are possible within portions of the watch area in the \nFlorida Keys Monday.\n\nSURF:  Swells generated by Laura are affecting portions of Puerto\nRico, Hispaniola, eastern Cuba, the southeastern Bahamas and the\nTurks and Caicos Islands.  These swells are expected to spread\nacross central and western Cuba, the central and northwestern\nBahamas, and the Florida Keys during the next couple of days.\nPlease consult products from your local weather office.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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