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Update on Hurricane Isidore

Aired September 23, 2002 - 05:22   ET

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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Time now to get an update on hurricane Isidore. We're going to turn to National Hurricane Center meteorologist Daniel Brown, who's joining us by telephone this morning.
I know it's a busy morning for you, Daniel. I appreciate you spending some time with us.

What does it look like Isidore is going to do?

DANIEL BROWN, METEOROLOGIST, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER: Right now Isidore, of course, made land fall yesterday afternoon along the north coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.

CALLAWAY: Right.

BROWN: And it has weakened now, down to a minimal hurricane. It's still producing quite a bit of rain and some wind there across the Yucatan Peninsula. But we expect it to move offshore later today and begin to reintensify.

CALLAWAY: Well, where do you think, if you had to guess, on the Gulf Coast, where are you predicting -- we're reading everything from somewhere around Louisiana. What do you think?

BROWN: Right now most of our computer models begin to turn the storm more to the northwest and then north and eventually do pose a threat to Texas or Louisiana towards the mid to the late part of the week.

CALLAWAY: Daniel, yesterday we were thinking this storm was going to increase and were going to bump it up a category. What do you think now?

BROWN: It does look like there's a potential that it will redevelop. The forecast now is (AUDIO GAP). It depends on how much it weakness today over land and basically, you know, it looks like there's plenty of warm water. It's, you know, intensity forecasts are really the hardest part of our forecasting we've got to do.

CALLAWAY: Yes, difficult job. But we should tell everyone there's five categories of hurricane so four would be certainly a significant storm, three even a big storm. No chance we're going to see a five out of this one?

BROWN: That's, those are very difficult to forecast when they get this strong and really, if you get up to the three and four country hurricanes, they really just kind of fluctuate in strength once they get that strong. So I guess the potential exists, but right now it's, you know, we think it will intensify and become a major hurricane.

CALLAWAY: Oh, that's not good news.

All right, Daniel, we'll be staying in touch with you.

Thank you.

That's Daniel Brown from the National Hurricane Center.

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Aired September 23, 2002 - 05:22   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Time now to get an update on hurricane Isidore. We're going to turn to National Hurricane Center meteorologist Daniel Brown, who's joining us by telephone this morning.
I know it's a busy morning for you, Daniel. I appreciate you spending some time with us.

What does it look like Isidore is going to do?

DANIEL BROWN, METEOROLOGIST, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER: Right now Isidore, of course, made land fall yesterday afternoon along the north coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.

CALLAWAY: Right.

BROWN: And it has weakened now, down to a minimal hurricane. It's still producing quite a bit of rain and some wind there across the Yucatan Peninsula. But we expect it to move offshore later today and begin to reintensify.

CALLAWAY: Well, where do you think, if you had to guess, on the Gulf Coast, where are you predicting -- we're reading everything from somewhere around Louisiana. What do you think?

BROWN: Right now most of our computer models begin to turn the storm more to the northwest and then north and eventually do pose a threat to Texas or Louisiana towards the mid to the late part of the week.

CALLAWAY: Daniel, yesterday we were thinking this storm was going to increase and were going to bump it up a category. What do you think now?

BROWN: It does look like there's a potential that it will redevelop. The forecast now is (AUDIO GAP). It depends on how much it weakness today over land and basically, you know, it looks like there's plenty of warm water. It's, you know, intensity forecasts are really the hardest part of our forecasting we've got to do.

CALLAWAY: Yes, difficult job. But we should tell everyone there's five categories of hurricane so four would be certainly a significant storm, three even a big storm. No chance we're going to see a five out of this one?

BROWN: That's, those are very difficult to forecast when they get this strong and really, if you get up to the three and four country hurricanes, they really just kind of fluctuate in strength once they get that strong. So I guess the potential exists, but right now it's, you know, we think it will intensify and become a major hurricane.

CALLAWAY: Oh, that's not good news.

All right, Daniel, we'll be staying in touch with you.

Thank you.

That's Daniel Brown from the National Hurricane Center.

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