..moving at 83 miles per hour!
..Tornado Warning for Hancock [MS] and St. Tammany [LA] till 8:45 AM CDT …AT 826 AM CDT…AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR STENNIS SPACE CENTER…OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF SLIDELL…MOVING WEST AT 83 MPH.
OTHER NOTES
..Plaquemines Parish Sheriff reports levees fine…no overtopping…no major wind damage…just some trees down…winds in 60 mph category…he does report that power is out…so pumps are out in teh Belle Chasse tunnel…tunnel has been sealed closed…
POSITION UPDATE
WTNT52 KNHC 011359
TCEAT2
HURRICANE GUSTAV TROPICAL CYCLONE POSITION ESTIMATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072008
900 AM CDT MON SEP 01 2008
AT 9 AM CDT…1200 UTC…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE GUSTAV WAS
ESTIMATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.0 NORTH…LONGITUDE 90.5 WEST OR ABOUT
75 MILES…135 KM…SOUTH OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA AND
ABOUT 15 MILES…35 KM…SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF COCODRIE LOUISIANA.
DURING THE LAST HOUR…THE NAVAL AIR STATION AT BELLE CHASSE
LOUISIANA REPORTED A WIND GUST OF 73 MPH…117 KM/HR.
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FORECASTER BEVEN
