Isaac and the reTHUGs
MOBILE, Alabama -- At 8 a.m. on August 24, 2012 Eastern Daylight Time, NOAA's National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, issued a tropical weather outlook due to the presence of Tropical Storm Isaac in the Caribbean and Tropical Depression Joyce in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean, and another tropical wave off the coast of Africa.
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Data obtained from NOAA's Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicates that Tropical Storm Isaac has grown stronger with winds now reaching 50 miles per hour.
NOAA's National Hurricane Center stormtracker forecasts that Tropical Storm Isaac, predicted to become Hurricane Isaac on Tuesday, will take a more westerly track and arrive just off the coast of Mobile, Alabama Tuesday evening.
The northeast quadrant of Tropical Storm Issac, the most powerful area of a hurricane in the northern hemisphere, is predicted to be over Southwest Florida Sunday night and Tampa Bay on Monday morning as it passes over the Florida Keys.
The majority of the spaghetti models predict that Hurricane Isaac will head northwest on Sunday and make landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast anywhere from as far west as New Orleans, Louisiana to as far south as Tampa, Florida.
Latest Tropical Storm Isaac and Hurricane Isaac 2012 Information:
Tropical Storm Isaac is located 175 miles south-southwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, with higher gusts, as it moves west at 15 miles per hour.
NOAA expects that Tropical Storm Isaac will move near or over Hispaniola today and move near or over southeaster Cuba on Saturday.
A tropical storm warning is in effect for Haiti, Dominican Republic, and the Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Granma, Holguin, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantanamo.
A tropical storm watch is in effect for the central Bahamas, Andros Island, the Exumas, Long Island, Rum Cay, and San Salvador.
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