Sunday, September 14, 2008

What was Once Ike's Eyewall Brings Torrential Rain

I have to admit I do have some goosebumps as Ike's center is moving over us. Ike once had an eye of 60 miles in diameter which is incredibly huge. Now instead of blue skies and calm conditions we will just see a brief break in our moderate to heavy rain before we get another batch of heavy rain. On the northwestern edge of Ike's old eye rain rates have now gone up over 2.5 inches per hour in Remington. Wind gusts have 30 mph or less so far for our viewing area but once Ike passes to our north and east by 2:30 p.m. look for some big wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph. The heaviest rain will be moving out of Lafayette by 3 p.m. and our eastern and northern counties by 4 to 4:30 p.m.We have already had wind gusts of 53 mph as close to home as Mattoon in Illinois on the backside of Ike. This will be moving into the area after 2:15 p.m.

Ike Tidbit: Galveston had wind gusts go from 102 mph to near 0 mph in a matter of seconds once the eye of Ike passed over them. The eye took about 90 minutes to move over the entire island since Ike was such a massive storm. They were then hit with more gusts of near 90 mph as the backside of Ike's eye wall passed over. Luckily, Indiana is about 1,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and has been torn apart by the frictional effects of land and the storm losing its heat source which was the Gulf of Mexico. The eye will be much kinder to us but I am worried about flooding in Benton, Newton, Jasper, and White Counties. Do not cross waters covering roadways. The main threats will continue to be flooding and gusty winds with a few tree limbs and small trees going down in the saturated soil developing around the area.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes Mike for the north countie's flooding is the main thing to watch. For our area in tippecanoe co, Im still watching those high wind gusts! as our main thing...

Justin in Lafayette.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the update Mike! Where I am located it is calm now, rain has died down, very light. Now we are in for the winds?

Teri in Laf

Anonymous said...

The sun is trying to come out in Laf. Looks really dark in the north east! Getting warmer now!

Anonymous said...

The heavy rain is back and the wind is picking up.....

Justin in Lafayette.

Anonymous said...

Where I am, near Kossuth St. we are getting heavy rain, but no wind, My friend in WL close to Pine Village just reported to me that he is getting heavy rain and wind, tree branches and limbs are down.

Oh now may just a little wind as I type this

Teri in Laf.

Anonymous said...

WOW I am seeing some high wind gusts and very heavy rain it is really something!!!!! I am trying to get some picture's and am now really WET lol but haveing fun. Still let me add everyone be safe! and be smart.

Justin in Lafayette.

Anonymous said...

The rain has let up a bit still wind's I now have .75" in the gauge.

Justin in Lafayette.

Anonymous said...

Now the wind is picking up! Sure can hear it!

Anonymous said...

It's a fine mist like rain out there right now so when the wind take's it it almost look's like a blizzered. We have a lot of tree limb's in our yard as well! Those sre some wind's.

Justin in Lafayette.