Hurricane Sally

[Indystorm]

1 hour ago, dan11295 said:

I think people in Gulf Shores to Pensacola are getting a bit more than they were expecting. Instead of a borderline cat 1 you have a slow moving borderline cat 3. Plus the excessive rainfall to boot.

Yes, with all of the early focus on NOLA and the MS coast initially and then with all the category one talk I certainly hope people there realized what could happen.

[lilj4425]

Hope they moved the Blue Angels out of the naval air station just southwest of Pensacola. It’s getting pummeled right now. 

[NorthHillsWx]

Landfall. 965 mb 105 mph. Continues the trend of hurricanes intensifying into landfall this season. I’m very surprised this system was able to get its act together like this. HWRF for the win, again 

[NorthHillsWx]

Best satellite presentation at the worst time 

[NorthHillsWx]

Given some of the observations, radar velocities, recon wind data, and the fact it continued to intensify into landfall, this storm will be a candidate for reanalysis at the end of the season to determine if it was a major. It certainly was on the cusp. I did not expect that 

[NorthHillsWx]

Of further note, Mobile has been gusting to tropical storm force winds for 26 hours straight 

[Jackstraw]

6 minutes ago, Windspeed said:

Just a crazy long-duration landfall. Pensacola hasn't even got the worst yet. Hopefully Sally begins weakening soon with nearly half the northern semicircle inland.
 

Yeah, it almost looks like its stalled again over the last hour.  It's taken nearly 5 days for this storm to traverse the tip of S FL to the AL/FL gulf coast. That's usually a 3 day trip.  5 days is usually a trip to TX lol.  I will say this has been one of the more interesting storms at least to me, to track in a long while.

Friend in Pensacola just called back and said it's getting even more crazy there.  Said his house is literally shaking and it sounds like bombs going off outside.  He's reading 977 on his handheld.  He once again said the gusts are coming down, not laterally, like a hammer. 

[Calderon]

Looking at Sally & Ivan landfall advisories, it looks like their center points are only about 5-7 miles apart. Simply incredible.

[NorthHillsWx]

Places in that esteem eyewall have to be getting absolutely hammered. With the duration of the wind and it being dark, I can’t even imagine how scary it must be for those riding it out

[Floydbuster]

Landfall Video Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slS_wvh7ESU

[tiger_deF]

5 days ago models had nothing

[Jackstraw]

Pensacola gauge now the 4th highest recorded water level there with at least 6 more hours of onshore and high tide moving in.....

 

[Prospero]

[Mowfishin]

12 minutes ago, Jackstraw said:

Pensacola gauge now the 4th highest recorded water level there with at least 6 more hours of onshore and high tide moving in.....

 

Im not sure that updated in real time.  Currently the water level is 6.19' and has been steadily increasing **EDIT**

[Jackstraw]

8 minutes ago, Mowfishin said:

Im not sure that updated in real time.  Currently the water level is 6.19' and has increased 1' in the last 10 minutes

Thanks!  Getting close to knocking on Ivan's door then

[Buckeye05]

Downtown Pensacola is getting some pretty intense eyewall winds right now. 

https://www.wkrg.com/live-stream/

[Prospero]

[gritsnc]

A friend just sent me a message and said her family was just evacuated by the Gulf Shores FD. 

[CoastalWx]

What a pummeling for PNS. 

[Eskimo Joe]

 

[Eskimo Joe]

From the one and only Greg Carbin:

 

[Prospero]

Nearing record:

[Orangeburgwx]

What was the "official"* landfall winds?

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[flapenny]

Have family in Fairhope AL (eastern shore of Mobile Bay about 20 minutes north of Gulf Shores). We've been through a lot of hurricanes, including Frederic and Ivan. Sister says this seems as bad as Frederic. Major flooding, roofs off of houses, numerous trees down, and it's only halfway through. Going to be some massive damage.

[eyewall]

1 minute ago, Orangeburgwx said:

What was the "official"* landfall winds?

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105 mph I believe.

[Mowfishin]

31 minutes ago, Prospero said:

Nearing record:

at 19.2 now.  1 Foot in an hour

[eyewall]

1 minute ago, Mowfishin said:

at 19.2 now.  1 Foot in an hour

What is the link to the page that graphic is on?

[Orangeburgwx]

105 mph I believe.

That will get bumped up in p-a... 100-105kts at the least

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[jm1220]

Yikes-that landfall and slow speed has to be the worst case for surge coming into Pensacola Bay. Mobile was spared but not a sparsely populated spot for surge to come ashore like for Laura-alternative also has lots of people. 

[Prospero]

1 minute ago, eyewall said:

What is the link to the page that graphic is on?

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/fl/nwis/uv?site_no=02376115