Hurricane Dorian – Day 7
Position: 25.5N 71.4W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [300°] near 10 mph [17 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 140 mph [220 kph].
Wind Gusts: 165 mph [265 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 30 miles [ 45 km].
Minimum central pressure: 948 mb ↓.
Currently about 375 miles [ 605 km] East of the Northwestern Bahamas.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Northwestern Bahamas excluding Andros Island.
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for Andros Island.
At 1PM Dorian became a Category 3, a major hurricane. The current tracking has it passing over the Northern Bahamas and making landfall on the Florida Peninsula East of Lake Okeechobee. Once ashore the current tracking has the storm taking a right turn to parallel I-95. Given the “king tides”, up to a 12-foot surge topped by storm-tossed breakers, and a prodigious amount of rain, there is an almost certain chance of major flooding along the corridor.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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