[SFDXA] Fw: ARLB054 Hurricane Watch Net Activates for Isidore

[Bill Marx]

> SB QST @ ARL $ARLB054
> ARLB054 Hurricane Watch Net Activates for Isidore
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> QST de W1AW  
> ARRL Bulletin 54  ARLB054
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  September 19, 2002
> To all radio amateurs 
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> SB QST ARL ARLB054
> ARLB054 Hurricane Watch Net Activates for Isidore
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> For the first time this hurricane season, the Hurricane Watch Net
> has activated. HWN Manager Mike Pilgrim, K5MP, reports the net
> activated at 1600z on 14.325 MHz to track Tropical Storm Isidore,
> which is expected to soon become a Category 1 hurricane. As of the
> morning of September 19, the storm was heading toward the western
> end of Cuba, but it could threaten the US Gulf Coast.
> 
> ''We anticipate the Hurricane Watch Net will be active for the Cuba
> landfall until late Thursday night or early Friday,'' Pilgrim said,
> ''then we'll secure and await our next step which likely will come
> during the weekend as Isidore will certainly be headed for landfall
> some place on the Gulf shore.''
> 
> Isidore is expected to hit the western tip of Cuba sometime during
> the evening of September 19 and was expected to gain strength as it
> passes over the island nation and heads into the Gulf of Mexico,
> Pilgrim said.
> 
> Assistant Amateur Radio Coordinator Julio Ripoll, WD4JR, at W4EHW at
> the National Hurricane Center, says W4EHW commenced operations at
> 1900z on September 19. ''Two HF stations will be used, 20 meters for
> the HWN on 14.325 MHz and 40 meters for the Cuban Net,'' Ripoll said.
> W4EHW will collect reports via APRS, e-mail and via its on-line
> Hurricane Reporting Form.
> 
> As of 1500z, a tropical storm warning remained in effect for the
> Cayman Islands. A tropical storm watch or warning may be required
> for the lower Florida Keys later. The storm's center was reported at
> about 160 miles southeast of the Isle of Youth (Isla de la
> Juventud--formerly Isle of Pines), in the Caribbean south of western
> Cuba and moving erratically, generally toward the west-northwest at
> near 8 MPH. Maximum sustained winds were near 70 MPH with higher
> gusts.
> 
> The NWS is predicting up to 30 inches of rain over portions of
> western Cuba as a result of Isidore over the next two to three days,
> while rain should diminish over Jamaica later today.
> 
> Official advisories are available on the NHC Web site,
> http://www.nhc.noaa.gov . Information on the Hurricane Watch Net,
> and W4EHW at the National Hurricane Center, can be found on the web
> at http://www.hwn.org and http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/w4ehw/,
> respectively.
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> /EX
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