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Edouard makes landfall
BY CHARLYN FINN
Late Monday afternoon Tropical Storm Edouard, second storm in the Gulf of Mexico this year, shifted to the right towards Houston.
The storm made landfall Tuesday morning near the Texas/Louisiana border.
John Metz, meteorologist out of the Corpus Christi National Weather Service office, held a telephone conference for the area under a hurricane watch from the Mouth of the Mississippi to Port O’Connor, Tx.
A much smaller gathering showed up at the Calhoun County Courthouse then the one present for Dolly at the Monday morning conference and only six people were present Monday afternoon.
LaDonna Thigpen, Calhoun County Emergency Management coordinator scheduled no meeting for Tuesday “unless things change significantly.
Metz said at the afternoon conference on Monday that Edouard had “slowed down to 7 mph and should hit land mid-morning Tuesday. The storm will go over to the Houston area and then north of Austin.”
Metz forecast very little rainfall for the Calhoun County area. “Houston will get four to six inches of rain but for the coastal bend the likely scenario is one-half to one-inch of rain.”
Metz estimated Edouard could pack a 70 mph wind which is a little less than a Category 1 hurricane.”
“None of the models bring the storm south of Freeport,” Metz said.
While early Monday forecasts were 70 percent chance of rain for the area Tuesday, as evening approached Monday, Metz projected “a hot and dry Tuesday. There is a better chance of rain Wednesday.
Metz said there was very little wave action Monday and waves were down a fourth of a foot. He expected wave action to pick up Tuesday. “There will be no significant impact on San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers,” he said.
Because it is difficult to evacuate the oil rigs when a storm threatens unless it is done early on, oil companies often bring workers in before the path of the storm is confirmed. Edouard’s path is some of the Gulf’s oil and natural gas platforms. However, this time most companies say the storm isn’t likely to disrupt production.
Shell Oil did evacuate about 40 workers from some of its operations in the western Gulf.
ExxonMobil hadn’t evacuated any workers or cut production as of Monday but did prepare its platforms for heavy wind and rain.
No oilfield workers left their job sites in Port O’Connor.
The Calhoun County Emergency Management team gathered in the courthouse twice Monday to hear the first telephone conferences. The teams in the counties always meet for a joint telephone conference when a hurricane is in the Gulf.
Edouard actually formed in the Gulf of Mexico in the vicinity of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The storm made landfall Tuesday morning near the Texas/Louisiana border.
John Metz, meteorologist out of the Corpus Christi National Weather Service office, held a telephone conference for the area under a hurricane watch from the Mouth of the Mississippi to Port O’Connor, Tx.
A much smaller gathering showed up at the Calhoun County Courthouse then the one present for Dolly at the Monday morning conference and only six people were present Monday afternoon.
LaDonna Thigpen, Calhoun County Emergency Management coordinator scheduled no meeting for Tuesday “unless things change significantly.
Metz said at the afternoon conference on Monday that Edouard had “slowed down to 7 mph and should hit land mid-morning Tuesday. The storm will go over to the Houston area and then north of Austin.”
Metz forecast very little rainfall for the Calhoun County area. “Houston will get four to six inches of rain but for the coastal bend the likely scenario is one-half to one-inch of rain.”
Metz estimated Edouard could pack a 70 mph wind which is a little less than a Category 1 hurricane.”
“None of the models bring the storm south of Freeport,” Metz said.
While early Monday forecasts were 70 percent chance of rain for the area Tuesday, as evening approached Monday, Metz projected “a hot and dry Tuesday. There is a better chance of rain Wednesday.
Metz said there was very little wave action Monday and waves were down a fourth of a foot. He expected wave action to pick up Tuesday. “There will be no significant impact on San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers,” he said.
Because it is difficult to evacuate the oil rigs when a storm threatens unless it is done early on, oil companies often bring workers in before the path of the storm is confirmed. Edouard’s path is some of the Gulf’s oil and natural gas platforms. However, this time most companies say the storm isn’t likely to disrupt production.
Shell Oil did evacuate about 40 workers from some of its operations in the western Gulf.
ExxonMobil hadn’t evacuated any workers or cut production as of Monday but did prepare its platforms for heavy wind and rain.
No oilfield workers left their job sites in Port O’Connor.
The Calhoun County Emergency Management team gathered in the courthouse twice Monday to hear the first telephone conferences. The teams in the counties always meet for a joint telephone conference when a hurricane is in the Gulf.
Edouard actually formed in the Gulf of Mexico in the vicinity of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
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