Hurricane Lane Roars Toward Baja

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060916/D8K5KC000.html

Hurricane Lane Roars Toward Baja
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Sep 15, 8:31 PM (ET)

By WILL WEISSERT

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) - Tropical Storm Lane became a Category 2 hurricane Friday as it roared toward the tip of the Baja California Peninsula, lashing Mexico's Pacific coast, flooding port cities and causing a landslide that killed a 7-year-old boy.

The Mexican government issued a hurricane warning for the southern tip of the peninsula, the prison colony of Islas Marias and a 175-mile stretch of coast on the mainland that included the resort of Mazatlan.

The hurricane had maximum sustained winds near 100 mph and was expected to strengthen. At 8 p.m. EDT, it was 240 miles east-southeast of the Mexican resort of Cabo San Lucas, moving north-northwest at nearly 13 mph. It was passing just west of Islas Marias.


People stand in line to board a flight back to the U.S. in the Los Cabos airport, Mexico on Friday Sept. 15, 2006. Tourists cut short their vacations as tropical storm Lane was expected to become a hurricane within the next 24 hours and is on course to affect the southern tip of the Baja peninsula.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)


Lane was following the roughly the same path as Hurricane John, which raked Mexico's Pacific coast early this month before slamming into Baja California, killing five people and damaging 160 homes.

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[Tiggeroshii]

1. I wonder what the chances of this getting enough power to get itself into

Inland California? Probably not likely, but one day it could happen.

[BrotherBuzz]

2. If it tracks right it can dump a lot of rain

It's happens often - winds are long gone but the moisture can still push up north

[Tiggeroshii]

3. It's been a lot more wet today

Here in southern Cali, I think it's definitely an effect from the hurricane.

[slackmaster]

5. It happens once in a while

We get a bunch of lightning and rain, not a lot of wind.

I remember one on July 20, 1969 (the day of the Apollo 11 moon landing), and there was Kathleen in 1976.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Kathleen_(1976)

I'd say Tropical Depression 14E is more likely to affect California than Hurricane Lane.

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/eastpac/storm/storm7.html

[Gman]

4. They're expecting flooding here in S Texas starting tomorrow p.m.

because of a cold front coming and Hurricane Lane:

SEVERAL WEATHER FEATURES WILL COME TOGETHER ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS THIS WEEKEND RESULTING IN THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND
FLASH FLOODING. A WARM AND VERY HUMID AIRMASS HAS OVERSPREAD SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY. THIS AIRMASS WILL COLLIDE WITH A
COLD FRONT AS IT MOVES INTO THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LATE SUNDAY NIGHT
INTO EARLY MONDAY. THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR
SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. AN ADDITIONAL FACTOR WILL BE
AN INFLUX OF TROPICAL PACIFIC MOISTURE FROM WHAT IS NOW HURRICANE
LANE LOCATED OFF OF THE WEST COAST OF MEXICO.

THE COMBINATION OF THESE FEATURES WILL RESULT IN HEAVY RAINFALL
AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE
HILL COUNTRY. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL BE
SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL LIKELY BE
NECESSARY.