>From the USA Today weather web site...Not good.
Good luck my friend.
Michael Ferguson
WTPA32 PHNL 172100
BULLETIN
HURRICANE DORA ADVISORY NUMBER 48
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
11 AM HST TUE AUG 17 1999
...HURRICANE DORA CONTINUES MOVING WEST TOWARD JOHNSTON ISLAND...
ON ITS PRESENT TRACK...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE DORA IS EXPECTED TO
PASS WITHIN 80 MILES SOUTH OF JOHNSTON ATOLL EARLY THIS EVENING.
AT 11 AM HST...2100Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE DORA WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 15.5 NORTH...LONGITUDE 166.8 WEST OR ABOUT 200
MILES...320 KM...EAST SOUTHEAST OF JOHNSTON ATOLL.
DORA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 18 MPH...30 KM/HR...AND THIS
MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THENEXT 24 HOURS.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 80 MPH...130 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. LITTLE CHANGE IN STRENGTH 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 90 MILES...150 KM.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 990 MB...29.23 INCHES.
REPEATING THE 11 AM HST POSITION...15.5 N...166.8 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD
THE WEST NEAR 18 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS... 80 MPH. MINIMUM
CENTRAL PRESSURE... 990 MB.
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE
CENTER AT 5 PM HST.
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>From: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>
>To: "spitfires@autox.team.net" <spitfires@autox.team.net>,
"triumphs@autox.team.net" <triumphs@autox.team.net>, Brad Kahler
<bkahler@omc.ja.dtra.mil>
>Subject: hurricanes
>Date: Tue, Aug 17, 1999, 7:53 PM
>
>
> Listers, just watching the NBC evening news and they announced a
> extremely strong hurricane heading for that tiny island in the Pacific,
> "Johnson Island", Brad are you all buckled down.
>
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