Hurricane Chase 2011
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Current Storm Status Atlantic Tropical Basin:
Current Chase Status: – Tropical Depression Ida
Date / Time: -10:05am ET, November 10, 2009
Storm Name: – Tropical Depression Ida – Winds 35mph -
Area of Interest: – Departing Pensacola Beach after Tropical Storm Ida chase. All chase updates now can be found here: Tropical Storm Ida Chase Update Page
11/8/09 – Hurricane Ida now a 100mph category 2 hurricane. Hurricane Watches extended eastward into the Florida Panhandle.
11/8/09 – Hurricane Watches posted for the northern Gulf coast this morning. Hurricane Ida passing through the Yucatan Channel late this morning. She remains a 90mph hurricane, and could strengthen a little more once in the southern Gulf. I am currently preparing for a northern Gulf coast chase. It is still unknown if Ida will be fully tropical once reaching the Gulf coast region, and her strength, but being the only tropical chase opportunity this season, I plan to depart in the next 12 hours. I will update more later today.
11/8/09 – Hurricane Ida now has 90mph winds, confirmed by recon, with also a pressure of 980mbs. She continues to track north-northwest near 12mph, and expected to continue this motion over the next 48hrs. She has significantly strengthened since earlier on Saturday, and could become a Category 2 hurricane before reaching the cooler waters of the central Gulf. At this time, Chase intercept plans are in the making for Mon-Fri time frame.
11/7/09 – Ida regains hurricane status with winds of 75mph.
11/7/09 -Tropical Storm Ida has continued to slowly strengthen early this afternoon, and recent recon flight data, now shows Ida has winds of 70mph. She could regain hurricane status later today if she continues to organized over the very warm waters of the northwest Caribbean Sea.
11/7/09 – Tropical Storm Ida has improved significantly since late last night in overall structure. Her winds have been increased to 60mph, and could be higher given her structure, but we’ll know for sure when recon gets in there in a few hours. This morning, Ida’s visible satellite imagery presentation shows a more convective and symmetrical storm. Ida is moving over some of the warmest waters in the Atlantic basin, so as long as the shear remains low the next 24 hours, she’ll have plenty of fuel to regain hurricane status before reaching the Yucatan channel. After that, it’s all up in the air about how she will interact with a trough in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Watches were issued at 10am for the Yucatan Peninsula.
11/6/09 – Tropical Depression Ida, has now survived the trek over Nicaragua and Honduras, and has re-emerged into the warm waters of the northwest Caribbean Sea. Already in the last hour, Ida is showing signs of getting reorganized better, with the deeper convection on her north side trying to tuck in the lower-level circulation. I believe she should become a tropical storm again late tonight or during the overnight hours. It’s looking to be a interesting weekend ahead, with all eyes on the Gulf of Mexico, and her future track.
11/6/09 – Tropical Depression Ida, is about 12 hours away from reaching the warmer waters of the Caribbean Sea once again. Overnight, she has maintained a fairly organized structure, although, lacking convection with the center, which is expected being over land. Deeper convection however, has been much more active just to the north of Ida, and offshore the northern coast of Honduras. It’s looking more likely now, that she’ll regain her Tropical Storm status sometime tomorrow once back out over the Caribbean. This will make for a interesting weekend, as she is forecast to slowly strengthen, and track northward into the Gulf of Mexico.
11/5/09 – Ida downgraded back to a Tropical Storm, with winds of 65mph, which was expected. Ida continues to very slowly, and actually looks more stationary the last few hours, but to resume a more north-northwest track later today. Ida remains just barely inland on the east-central Nicaragua coastline. Future computer models redevelop Ida once back out over the warm waters of the northwest Caribbean Sea in a few days, but again, it’s too early to know.
- 11/5/09 – I have been watching the last few hours of early visible satellite imagery, and it looks like Hurricane Ida has made landfall along the central Nicaragua coastline. Ida was upgraded to hurricane status just a few hours before landfall, as the satellite presentation looked pretty good to support a hurricane. Now the question is, how long will Ida stay over land, and will she survive? More later today.
- 11/4/09 – It has been a impressive evening watching Tropical Storm Ida organize rapidly in structure over the last 4-5 hours. Satellite IR loop trends have shown very intense deep convection over the center of circulation, along with decent convective banding. Ida remains a very small compact storm, and smaller storms sometimes, if the environment is right, tend to wrap up and deepen a lot faster. At 10pm ET, Ida remains a 65mph storm, with a pressure of 995mb, but is now moving more northwest at 6mph.
– 11/4/09 – It’s confirmed. TD 11, now has been officially upgraded to Tropical Storm Ida, with winds of 60mph with higher gusts. Pressure of 996mb and moving slowly west-northwest near 6mph. New forecast tracks bring a tropical storm near the Yucatan Channel around Monday.
- 11/4/09 – Early recon flight data indicates, that Tropical Depression Eleven, likely now Tropical Storm Ida. Awaiting the official upgrade from the National Hurricane Center at the 4pm ET advisory. – Hurricane Chaser Jeff Gammons
Hurricane Names List 2009
These will be the names used this hurricane season. They are recycled every 6 years if not retired. Thus, the 2009 list will be used again in 2015.
Ana Bill Claudette Danny Erika Fred Grace Henri Ida Joaguin Kate Larry Mindy Nicholas Odette Peter Rose Sam Teresa Victor Wanda
