National Hurricane Center Gives Update On Tropical Storm Nicholas As It Nears Impact In Texas

welcome back to the national hurricane center this is ken graham in our operations area here in miami florida time right now is 1 17 central time let's get to the latest information on tropical storm nicholas the information we have now 60 mile per hour wind so that's still holding pretty steady to what we've had moving north at 12 miles per hour so that's that's the current movement and if you look at the satellite here we can actually see some of these wind bars that's the hurricane hunters out there really helping us out try to find where that center is and try to help us find the expanse of those wind as well so real heroes out there really get the information that we need to help pass it along to you all the latest information we have now is 70 miles south-southeast of port aransas texas let's start looking at some of the data and look at some of the impacts that we're going to have well we've talked about it before just this large area of cloud cover so underneath there is what we're really trying to see where the winds are what's reaching the surface where the center is and the best way to do that is actually try to look at the actual radar itself looking at the brownsville radar corpus and and corpus christi and also the houston radars trying to find that center well it's not easy there's been multiple centers in there all day there's been jumps of the center so the big thing to take away here is just a large area circulation and look at this massive rain just a large area of rain tropical rainfall and that's why we've been talking about this this dangerous setup associated with the flooding and the rainfall associated with nicholas you see some of those really strong rain bands went through houston over the last hour and continue to move northward so that's going to be a big story really not completely focusing on the actual wind speed and the actual track this is a larger area of moisture just a dangerous life-threatening flooding situations setting up we do have the latest forecast this is the advisory at one o'clock that we just issued you can see where the storm is here not easy to detect exactly where it is but stacy back here is doing a great job looking at velocity data he's looking at the radar you look at the aircraft data he's just looking at everything he can to find out exactly where we can attract this system but the overall thinking is the same continuing to move north and eventually getting very close to the coastline of texas this evening overnight tonight and then with time tomorrow morning that's tuesday morning inland tuesday 7 p.m wednesday morning and then moving wednesday through thursday up through the upper texas coast into louisiana with time so as we saw on the radar the heavy rain so you do have that large area of rain but you also have that that rain band that tail end will have to watch with time you have to watch that with time because over the this week wherever that sets up not just the center but wherever that tail sets up you can get some really heavy rainfall and that's what we're going to watch out for not just around that center but well away from that center something else we definitely want to look at i do want to show you the winds can't discount that if we get into the rain but you're still going to have some really gusty winds tropical storm force winds anything in orange and red and this whole area in here you can see a higher probability of getting some of those tropical storm force winds that arrives this evening tonight into portions of the middle texas coast and even towards houston with time overnight tonight early tuesday morning you can see some of those tropical storm force winds so you know you can start seeing some some issues associated with putting those winds on saturated soil so something to watch out for as we go through the process with some of these impacts that right there is a lot of rain that's one of the bigger impacts that we're going to see from this you're going to see some of the the wind but i mean i look at this and the orange area here that six to ten inches of rain that's from coastal louisiana southwest louisiana central portions louisiana back towards even towards corpus christi that's a huge area six to ten inches of rain we do think some areas six to ten uh 16 inches of rain not out of the question some areas could see 20 inches of rain so wherever you start seeing that repetitive rain especially in those rain bands those totals are going to start adding up really quick so be ready for that in the coastal areas listen to those local officials and be ready to to seek higher ground if you need to so just a large area of rainfall louisiana back through back through texas corpus christi includes you houston beaumont um you know areas of of lake charles any one of these areas even baton rouge is pretty close to some of these higher rainfall totals so watch out the i-10 corridor going to be pretty treacherous with some of this rainfall over the next few days so one thing to look at the weather prediction center doing such a great job looking at areas that we could see some of that the higher probability of flash flooding so you do have that high risk this is in areas i was trying to look at some of these locations from galveston freeport matagorda any one of these areas in that high risk but look at this huge area i mean phil i mean not too often we see such a large area of moderate risk of flash flooding from corpus christi houston galveston lake charles back over to new orleans baton rouge any one of these areas could see significant amount of rainfall and just got to be careful where that sets up to see some of that flash flooding the last hazard i wanted to cover is we have a storm surge warning for areas here we do have the latest one i think i don't think it's changed the storm surge warning for port aransas texas sabine pass that includes galveston bay aransas bay san antonio bay and matagorda bay so some of these areas could see some significant storm surge i do want to show you some of these values this is inundation not every location gets this but it's one of these things that if you're in one of those spots where the water piles up you get it at high tide the potential storm surge you can get from san luis pass back to port o'connor three to five feet galveston bay two to four feet and look as far away as rutherford beach and louisiana back to san luis past two to four feet of storm surge so dangerous situation setting up if you're one of these areas and the local officials tell you not to be there definitely listen to them and turn around don't drown it's a dangerous situation with the flooding and the rainfall and together we can stay safe during this storm so this is the latest information we have from miami florida right here at the national hurricane center

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Published: Mon Sep 13 2021