Hurricane Nate brought gusty winds, heavy rain and a storm surge to the coast of Mississippi on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Nate was located at latitude 29.9\u00b0N and longitude 89.1\u00b0W which put it about 35 miles (60 km) south-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi.\u00a0 Nate was moving toward the north at 20 m.p.h. (32 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (140 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 983 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from the mouth of the Pearl River to the Alabama\/Florida border.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for the portion of the coast from Grand Isle, Louisiana to the mouth of the Pearl River, for New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain and for the coast from the Alabama\/Florida border to Indian Pass, Florida.<\/p>\n
Some drier air wrapped into the western side of Hurricane Nate on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 In addition an upper level trough approaching Nate from the west produced southwesterly winds which caused vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The drier air and shear caused the circulation of Hurricane Nate to become asymmetrical.\u00a0 The stronger winds are occurring in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 The winds are weaker in the western side of the hurricane.\u00a0 The bands of showers and thunderstorms are also occurring in the eastern half of Hurricane Nate.\u00a0 Very little rain was falling on the western side of the hurricane.<\/p>\n
The partial eyewall north of the center of Hurricane Nate was moving over the coast of Mississippi from Pascagoula to Gulfport.\u00a0 Strong gusty winds and heavy rain were falling on that section of the coast.\u00a0 Winds blowing water toward the coast were pushing a storm surge onto the coast.\u00a0 A water level gauge at a NOAA laboratory in Pascagoula, Mississippi was reporting a storm surge of 6.75 feet (2.06 meters).\u00a0 The highest surges were occurring in Mississippi, but there were also storm surges on the coast of Alabama and Florida.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were dropping heavy rain over southeastern Mississippi, southwestern and central Alabama and northwestern Florida.\u00a0 Brief tornadoes spun up in some of the thunderstorms on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Nate will move inland over southeastern Mississippi during the overnight hours.\u00a0 Nate will weaken after it moves inland, but it will continue to bring gusty winds as it spins down.\u00a0 There is a strong flow of moist air from the south and heavy rain will continue to fall east of the track of Hurricane Nate.\u00a0 Places west of the track will experience weaker winds and will receive little rain.\u00a0 Locations west of a line from New Orleans to Hattiesburg to Meridian,\u00a0 Mississippi could see little minimal impacts from Nate.\u00a0 Nate will cross over west central Alabama on Sunday morning.\u00a0 It will continue to move toward the north-northeast and the remnants of Nate could reach eastern Tennessee on Sunday night.\u00a0 Areas of heavy rain will fall over northwestern Florida, Alabama, northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.\u00a0 Fresh water flooding could occur in some of those areas.\u00a0 Tornadoes could develop in the rainbands again on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hurricane Nate brought gusty winds, heavy rain and a storm surge to the coast of Mississippi on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Nate was located at latitude 29.9\u00b0N and longitude 89.1\u00b0W which put it about 35 miles (60 km) south-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi.\u00a0 Nate was moving toward the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[576,577,384,51,98,838,113,493,837,716,100,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}