By Tonya Alanez and David Fleshler
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Sep 06, 2019
2:14 PM
A hurricane warning was issued Friday afternoon for parts of eastern Nova Scotia, as Hurricane Dorian started pulling away from the U.S. coast and heading toward Canada.
The storm’s forward motion accelerated to 21 mph on a course that could take it near southeastern Massachusetts and northeastern Maine as it closes in on eastern Canada by Saturday night. Dorian’s top winds remained at 90 mph and were expected to weaken Saturday, although they would retain hurricane-force as the storm approached Nova Scotia, according to the 2 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center.
“Hurricane Dorian will begin to race towards Atlantic Canada later today - severe impacts across the region during the weekend,” the Canadian Hurricane Centre said.
Warning of severe winds, torrential rain and pounding surf, the Canadian Hurricane Centre issued the Nova Scotia warning, as well as a hurricane watch for Prince Edward Island, southwestern Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands, and southwestern Newfoundland.
“Dorian will remain a very potent post-tropical system with hurricane or near hurricane force winds as it crosses Northern Newfoundland,” the Canadian Hurricane Centre said Friday.
Dorian, which brought flooding, evacuations, tornadoes and torrential rain on its 700-mile trip up the U.S. coast, is expected to veer away later Friday. For the next few hours, however, the storm’s wide wind field and heavy rains were expected to continue roughing up North Carolina, Virginia and Delaware.
The storm continued to produce top winds of 90 mph, putting at Category 1 strength, according to the 11 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center.
In North Carolina, where Dorian made landfall, the storm washed out roads, knocked out power and led thousands of coastal residents to seek refuge in public shelters. At least four deaths in the Southeast were blamed on the storm.
On Ocracoke Island, near the southern end of the 200-mile-long string of barrier islands and spits, about 500 of the 1,000 residents have stuck around to face the storm, said Ann Warner, the owner of Howard’s Pub on the island.
"The boats are tied down. Yards are cleaned up. Businesses are closed. People are hunkered down," Warner said by phone Thursday.
This satellite image obtained from NOAA/RAMMB, shows Tropical Storm Dorian as it sits over the southeastern US at 11:20 UTC on Sept. 5, 2019. (NOAA/RAMMB)
The ferries stopped service on Wednesday, she noted.
"It's too late to leave," Warner said. "If you want to change your mind, it's too late. We're on our own."
“I think we’re in for a great big mess,” said 61-year-old Leslie Lanier, who decided to stay behind and boarded up her home and bookstore on Ocracoke Island making sure to move the volumes 5 to 6 feet off the ground.
Further north, Virginia was also in harm’s way, and a round of evacuations was ordered there.
After leaving at least 30 people dead when it slammed the Bahamas with 185 mph winds, Dorian swept past Florida at a relatively safe distance, grazed Georgia, and then hugged the South Carolina-North Carolina coastline.
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Catastrophic hurricane damage in Bahamas
An aerial view of damage from Hurricane Dorian on September 5, 2019, in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. - Hurricane Dorian lashed the Carolinas with driving rain and fierce winds as it neared the US east coast Thursday after devastating the Bahamas and killing at least 20 people. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty)
The extreme southern region of New England could be feeling stormy conditions by Friday night, forecasters said.
As Dorian scoots toward Nova Scotia where it was expected by the weekend, the hurricane center said tropical-storm conditions could be upon a portion of Massachusetts within 36 hours. By Thursday night, a tropical storm warning had been issued in Massachusetts from Woods Hole to Sagamore.
Charleston, S.C., a historic port city of handsome antebellum homes, is on a peninsula that is prone to flooding even from ordinary storms. And it took an attack. Dorian toppled some 150 trees, swamped roads and brought down power lines, officials said, but the flooding and wind weren’t nearly as bad as feared.
Several gusts of 75 to 80 mph were reported in Charleston Harbor early in the afternoon, as the storm’s eye moved just northeast of the city.
Dorian apparently spawned at least one tornado in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, damaging several homes, and another twister touched down in the beach town of Emerald Isle, North Carolina, mangling and overturning several trailer homes in a jumble of sheet metal. No immediate injuries were reported.
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Sep 06, 2019
2:14 PM
A hurricane warning was issued Friday afternoon for parts of eastern Nova Scotia, as Hurricane Dorian started pulling away from the U.S. coast and heading toward Canada.
The storm’s forward motion accelerated to 21 mph on a course that could take it near southeastern Massachusetts and northeastern Maine as it closes in on eastern Canada by Saturday night. Dorian’s top winds remained at 90 mph and were expected to weaken Saturday, although they would retain hurricane-force as the storm approached Nova Scotia, according to the 2 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center.
“Hurricane Dorian will begin to race towards Atlantic Canada later today - severe impacts across the region during the weekend,” the Canadian Hurricane Centre said.
Warning of severe winds, torrential rain and pounding surf, the Canadian Hurricane Centre issued the Nova Scotia warning, as well as a hurricane watch for Prince Edward Island, southwestern Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands, and southwestern Newfoundland.
“Dorian will remain a very potent post-tropical system with hurricane or near hurricane force winds as it crosses Northern Newfoundland,” the Canadian Hurricane Centre said Friday.
Dorian, which brought flooding, evacuations, tornadoes and torrential rain on its 700-mile trip up the U.S. coast, is expected to veer away later Friday. For the next few hours, however, the storm’s wide wind field and heavy rains were expected to continue roughing up North Carolina, Virginia and Delaware.
The storm continued to produce top winds of 90 mph, putting at Category 1 strength, according to the 11 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center.
In North Carolina, where Dorian made landfall, the storm washed out roads, knocked out power and led thousands of coastal residents to seek refuge in public shelters. At least four deaths in the Southeast were blamed on the storm.
On Ocracoke Island, near the southern end of the 200-mile-long string of barrier islands and spits, about 500 of the 1,000 residents have stuck around to face the storm, said Ann Warner, the owner of Howard’s Pub on the island.
"The boats are tied down. Yards are cleaned up. Businesses are closed. People are hunkered down," Warner said by phone Thursday.
This satellite image obtained from NOAA/RAMMB, shows Tropical Storm Dorian as it sits over the southeastern US at 11:20 UTC on Sept. 5, 2019. (NOAA/RAMMB)
The ferries stopped service on Wednesday, she noted.
"It's too late to leave," Warner said. "If you want to change your mind, it's too late. We're on our own."
“I think we’re in for a great big mess,” said 61-year-old Leslie Lanier, who decided to stay behind and boarded up her home and bookstore on Ocracoke Island making sure to move the volumes 5 to 6 feet off the ground.
Further north, Virginia was also in harm’s way, and a round of evacuations was ordered there.
After leaving at least 30 people dead when it slammed the Bahamas with 185 mph winds, Dorian swept past Florida at a relatively safe distance, grazed Georgia, and then hugged the South Carolina-North Carolina coastline.
Catastrophic hurricane damage in Bahamas
An aerial view of damage from Hurricane Dorian on September 5, 2019, in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. - Hurricane Dorian lashed the Carolinas with driving rain and fierce winds as it neared the US east coast Thursday after devastating the Bahamas and killing at least 20 people. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty)
The extreme southern region of New England could be feeling stormy conditions by Friday night, forecasters said.
As Dorian scoots toward Nova Scotia where it was expected by the weekend, the hurricane center said tropical-storm conditions could be upon a portion of Massachusetts within 36 hours. By Thursday night, a tropical storm warning had been issued in Massachusetts from Woods Hole to Sagamore.
Charleston, S.C., a historic port city of handsome antebellum homes, is on a peninsula that is prone to flooding even from ordinary storms. And it took an attack. Dorian toppled some 150 trees, swamped roads and brought down power lines, officials said, but the flooding and wind weren’t nearly as bad as feared.
Several gusts of 75 to 80 mph were reported in Charleston Harbor early in the afternoon, as the storm’s eye moved just northeast of the city.
Dorian apparently spawned at least one tornado in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, damaging several homes, and another twister touched down in the beach town of Emerald Isle, North Carolina, mangling and overturning several trailer homes in a jumble of sheet metal. No immediate injuries were reported.
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