* The Alabama Coast still nervous. NWS in Mobile continues a Small Craft Advisory through Saturday evening for the entire coast. (This is mainly for boaters) Expect SE winds 25-30 knots (30 knots equals 35 mph) Seas 9-14 feet.
* The eye of Ike clearly seen on land based doppler radar from Houston.
SPOT REPORTS BASED ON 5 PM CDT OBSERVATIONS
Mobile Regional Airport…SE 20, gusts 32
Gulf Shores…east 24
Pensacola…SE 21, gusts 30
Mid Gulf Buoy…SSE 28, gusts 40, 18 foot waves. (That buoy is a long way from Ike)
Gulfport…SE 28, gusts 37
Biloxi…SE 28m gusts 41
New Orleans International…SE 24, gusts 43
Grand Isle, La.,…SE 26, gusts 42
New Iberia, La.,…SE 35, gusts 45
Sabine Pass (La.-Tex. border)…NE 38, gusts 53
Galveston/North Jetty…SE 41, gusts 59
Buoy 20 miles east of Galveston…NNE 52, gusts 64
FLOODING
It will continue to be major and life threatening in the Houston/Galveston area but we much not overlook what will happen inland. Extremely heavy rain will follow Ike northward after landfall into Northeast Texas, NW Louisiana and Oklahoma. Already yesterday and last night, these amounts having northing to do with Ike.
2.86 inches at Wichita
1.73 Tulsa
1.72 St. Louis (they are having a very wet year)
7.60 Lubbock, Tex., but they are not in the path of Ike’s downpours
4.63 Colorado Springs, also outside Ike’s harm
