A Few Notes Just After Noon on Cristobal

| June 7, 2020 @ 12:28 pm

You can clearly see the exposed center of Tropical Storm Cristobal just south of the Louisiana Coast at this hour. It is a large and disorganized storm, but it is producing strong winds, storm surge, rip currents, and heavy rains over a wide area along the Gulf Coast.

Strong winds have been impacting the Alabama and Northwest Florida coast. Winds recently gusted to 38 mph at Jack Edwards Airport in Gulf Shores. Winds gusted to 44 mph at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola earlier.

The Viosca Knoll Oil Platform south of Gulf Shores just reported a wind of 56 knots or 64 mph:
KVOA 071655Z AUTO 14039G56KT 1 1/2SM BR BKN016 BKN020 BKN025 26/24 A2957 RMK A01

Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect from:
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* Intracoastal City Louisiana to the Okaloosa/Walton County
Florida line
* Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas

Those appear they will be verified in the warning area along the Alabama coast over into Northwest Florida.

Recon is still finding strong winds of 59 knots at flight level, which is 68 mph. Converting to the surface, that equals 62 mph. It was measured 125 nautical miles from the center in the southeastern semicircle of the storm. These are the stronger winds that will be coming onshore along the coast east of the center.

Storm surge is being reported as well: the surge at Waveland, Mississippi is currently 4.5 feet:

There are reports of floating logs over the low lying causeway leading to the island. There are also reports of folding on the highway along the Mississippi coast.

A tornado watch has been issued for coastal Mississippi as well las Mobile and Baldwin Counties in Alabama. A waterspout was reported around 10:30 near Johnson’s Beach southwest of Pensacola. Around 9:30 a.m., a waterspout was observed near Orange Beach.

Inland, wind advisories have been issued for Southwest and southwestern portions of Central Alabama, including Marengo and Sumter Counties. It will be in effect until 1 p.m. tomorrow.

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