Anonymous - 9-21-2003 at 11:03 AM
Statement as of 11:00 am PDT on September 21, 2003
...Marty threatens southern Baja California...
a Hurricane Warning is in effect for southern Baja California...from
Bahia Magdalena southward on the west coast and from San Evaristo
southward on the east coast. A Hurricane Warning means that
hurricane conditions are expected within the warning area within
the next 24 hours. Preparations to protect life and property
should be rushed to completion.
A Hurricane Watch is in effect from Punta Abreojos to Bahia
Magdalena on the west coast and from mulege to San Evaristo on the
east coast. A Hurricane Watch means that hurricane conditions are
possible within the watch area...generally within 36 hours.
At 11 am PDT...1800z...the center of Hurricane Marty was located
near latitude 20.0 north...longitude 109.2 west or about 205 miles
...325 km...south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California.
Marty is moving toward the north-northwest near 6 mph... 10 km/hr.
An increase in forward speed is expected during the next 24 hours
and the forecast track brings the center of the hurricane to near
southern Baja California on Monday morning.
Maximum sustained winds remain near 80 mph...130 km/hr...with
higher gusts. Some strengthening is forecast during the next 24
hours.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 25 miles... 35 km...
from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up
to 115 miles...185 km.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 984 mb...29.06 inches.
Storm surge flooding of 4 to 8 feet above normal tide levels is
expected along the coast in the warning area where the hurricane
winds are blowing onshore. This flooding may be accompanied by
large and dangerous battering waves.
Rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches are likely along the path of the
hurricane.
Repeating the 11 am PDT position...20.0 N...109.2 W. Movement
toward...north-northwest near 6 mph. Maximum sustained
winds... 80 mph. Minimum central pressure... 984 mb.
Anonymous - 9-21-2003 at 11:04 AM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/20...
(09-20) 16:32 PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) --
The Mexican government issued a hurricane watch for the southern tip of the Baja California coast as Tropical Storm Marty gained force Saturday, and
was expected to reach hurricane strength by Sunday.
At 5 p.m. EDT, Marty was located about 300 miles south of the Baja peninsula's southern tip.
Marty sustained winds rose to 66 mph , with higher gusts. The storm was moving northwest at about 5 mph, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center
reported.
The storm was expected to reach hurricane strength of as much as 88 mph (140 kph) by Sunday and make a turn to the north.
The Hurricane Center predicted it would then steam parallel to the western Baja coast before heading into land about 300 miles south of the U.S.
border later in the week.
While the storm was not expected to make landfall on the southern part of the peninsula, it's track would take it extremely close to shore there
between Sunday and Monday, prompting the hurricane watch for a 200-mile stretch of coast on either side of the peninsula, including the resorts of Los
Cabos.
Anonymous - 9-21-2003 at 11:15 AM
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Anonymous - 9-21-2003 at 11:16 AM
Anonymous - 9-21-2003 at 04:30 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030921/t...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Marty headed for Mexico's sparsely populated Baja California peninsula on Sunday after strengthening from a tropical
storm late on Saturday.
With maximum sustained winds near 80 mph, the Mexican government issued a hurricane warning for southern Baja California from Bahia Magdalena
southward on its west coast and from San Evaristo southward on its eastern side.
"We're forecasting for it to go right over Baja and then head on to the (Mexican) mainland," said Michael Formosa, a forecaster with the U.S. National
Hurricane Center.
The center said the Category 1 storm was likely to make landfall on Monday around sparsely populated Bahia Magdalena on the peninsula's west coast, a
sheltered bay and fishing center popular with tourist cruise boats.
But a local spokesman for Mexico's Civil Protection Agency said authorities were also evacuating residents from the upscale golfing and sport-fishing
resort of Los Cabos on the peninsula's southern tip, where rain was already falling.
The National Hurricane Center said Marty was creeping north-northwest at 6 mph on Sunday afternoon but was expected to pick up speed later in the day
and could strengthen before landfall.
Its center was near latitude 20.0 north, longitude 109.2 west, about 205 miles south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California, the center
said.
"Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion," said the center in a statement.
Hurricane force winds spread outward 25 miles from Marty's center.
A Category 1 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale is capable of flooding coastal roads and uprooting trees.
"If you're within 20 miles of the center you're going to have a significant amount of damage," said Formosa.
All Mexico's oil ports remained open.
Marty is the second hurricane this season to threaten the arid Baja California peninsula, a popular tourist destination stretching south from the U.S.
state of California parallel to the west coast of the Mexican mainland.
Hurricane Ignacio brushed the peninsula's southern tip last month but fizzled out without causing major damage or casualties.
Marty is barely a bluster compared to massive Hurricane Isabel, which tore through the U.S. East Coast last week killing 26 people and cutting off
electricity to millions of homes and businesses.
Hurricane force winds spread 115 miles from Isabel's center at its destructive height, more than four times the reach of Marty's strongest winds, said
Formosa.
"There's no comparison," he said.
Anonymous - 9-21-2003 at 04:36 PM
Statement as of 2:00 PM PDT on September 21, 2003
At 2 PM PDT...2100z...the center of Hurricane Marty was located near
latitude 20.5 north...longitude 109.4 west or about 165 miles...270
km...south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California.
Marty is moving toward the north-northwest near 8 mph...13 km/hr.
A slight increase in forward speed is expected and this track
should bring the hurricane near or over southern Baja California on
Monday morning.
Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 75 mph...120 km/hr
...With higher gusts. However...some strengthening is forecast
during the next 24 hours.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 35 miles... 55 km...
from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up
to 145 miles...230 km.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 984 mb...29.06 inches.
Storm surge flooding of 4 to 8 feet above normal tide levels is
expected along the coast in the warning area near where the
hurricane winds are blowing onshore. This flooding may be
accompanied by large and dangerous battering waves.
Rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches...with locally higher amounts...are
likely along the path of the hurricane.
Repeating the 2 PM PDT position...20.5 N...109.4 W. Movement
toward...north-northwest near 8 mph. Maximum sustained
winds... 75 mph. Minimum central pressure... 984 mb.
JESSE - 9-21-2003 at 09:33 PM
Good luck to you guys in the tip of Baja, i for once welcome the rain, my family who own ranches near Cd Insurgentes need the rain badly, so let it
pour and let it filter into the ground.
Wonder what are the odds...
Stephanie Jackter - 9-21-2003 at 10:23 PM
of one place getting smacked by two hurricanes in a couple of months?
I, too, hope you guys get some good rains, but not too much of a battering. We're looking to get the tail end of it here next Thursday. We can
always use the rain too. - Stephanie
Marty makes landfall near SJd Cabo
Anonymous - 9-22-2003 at 07:11 AM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wcom/20030922...
Hurricane Marty, packing 100 mph winds, has made landfall on the southern Baja California Peninsula near San Jose del Cabo. Marty is forecast to
continue moving northward and probably will swirl into the Gulf of California later today. It may weaken a bit before that happens, but is likely to
re-strengthen under the influence of the warm waters of the gulf. A second landfall is expected along the northwest coast of mainland Mexico tomorrow,
possibly into the extreme southern portion of the state of Sonora. The remains of Marty, mostly tropical moisture, could spin into the U. S. Southwest
tomorrow afternoon or early Wednesday.
Anonymous - 9-22-2003 at 07:14 AM
At 5 am PDT...1200z...the center of Hurricane Marty was located near
latitude 23.2 north... longitude 109.6 west or near San Jose del
Cabo in southern Baja California.
Marty is moving toward the north near 12 mph ...19 km/hr...and a
slight increase in forward speed is expected today. On this track
the center will move over the sea of cortes later today.
Maximum sustained winds are estimated to be near 100 ...160
km/hr...with higher gusts. Some weakening is likely today due to
the influence of land.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 35 miles... 55 km...
from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up
to 145 miles...230 km.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 973 mb...28.73 inches.
Storm surge flooding of 4 to 8 feet above normal tide levels is
expected along the coast in the warning area near where the
hurricane winds are blowing onshore. This flooding may be
accompanied by large and dangerous battering waves.
Rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches...with locally higher amounts...
are likely near the path of the hurricane. These rains could cause
life-threatening flash floods and mud slides.
Repeating the 5 am PDT position...23.2 N...109.6 W. Movement
toward...north near 12 mph. Maximum sustained
winds...100 mph. Minimum central pressure... 973 mb.
Anonymous - 9-22-2003 at 11:31 PM
Tourists walk in the hotel zone in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico after Hurricane Marty hit Monday, Sept. 22, 2003. Marty weakened slightly as it headed
toward mainland Mexico's Pacific coast Monday after knocking out power, flooding streets and flattening trees on the southern Baja California
peninsula. One death was reported.(AP Photo/Ignacio Martinez)
Hurricane Marty Hits Mexico's Baja, Kills One
Anonymous - 9-22-2003 at 11:47 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030922/s...
By Greg Brosnan
Mon Sep 22
LA PAZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Marty battered Mexico's Baja California peninsula with howling winds and torrential rain on Monday, killing one
man and forcing thousands of others from their homes.
The storm, packing maximum sustained winds near 100 mph, caused widespread flooding in the port city of La Paz, where cast-iron benches lay upturned
on the beach and boats at anchor were half submerged in high waves.
Damage was limited in the exclusive resort area of Los Cabos at the tip of the peninsula, where 10,000 tourists, many of them Americans, are staying.
Baja California is a popular tourist destination stretching south from the California border parallel to the west coast of the Mexican mainland.
Wind screamed in from the sea toward luxury hotels.
"It was a horrible, ugly sound. Even though we live in the path of hurricanes, you never get used to that sound," Wenceslao Petit, the head of the
civil protection agency in Los Cabos, said.
Authorities reported the death of a Mexican man in Los Cabos. "A roof fell on his head," Baja California Sur governor Leonel Cota Montano told
Reuters.
Violent winds also tore the roofing off several houses in La Paz and led some walls to collapse.
Marty was around the same strength as Hurricane Isabel when it landed on the U.S. East Coast last week. Isabel killed at least 28 people and cut off
electricity to over 5 million homes and businesses.
The Mexican hurricane quickly waned to about 86 mph and gusts nearing 101 mph, according to Mexico's National Meteorological Service.
It moved northeast over the peninsula and out to sea again in the Gulf of California, said the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Some 4,000 people had been relocated to shelters in La Paz and Los Cabos and electricity and water was cut. But most of the big hotels in Los Cabos, a
popular resort for yachting enthusiasts and golfers, have their own generators.
Anonymous - 9-22-2003 at 11:50 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030922/...
LA PAZ, Mexico (AFP) -
"....Baja California Sur state Governor Leonel Cota Montano said one man died trying to swim across a rain-swelled stream in the town of Los Cabos, on
the western side of the peninsula.
"Two others were listed as missing in the same town. About seven others were trapped in three vehicles while attempting to cross the stream.
"Hundreds of homes and roads were flooded in the capital, authorities said. Standing water was 1.5 meters (yards) deep in some areas there, and the
overloaded sewer system broke down.
"The ports of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo were closed, authorities said.
"Admiral Joaquin Garcia, the local navy chief, said 35 yachts had sunk and a hundred other craft had been damaged...."