Hurricane Rita
National Weather Service reports that Rita made landfall just east of
Sabine Pass about 2:30 am Saturday, 24 September 2005,as a class 3 hurricane.
Anticipating damage from Hurricane Rita, Exxon Mobil Corp. said on Thursday (22 September 2005) it had begun shutting its Baytown and Beaumont Refineries. [Source: AP/ABC News]
You will see, looking at maps of the vicinity off the coast Port Arthur, there is a high concentration of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico east of Sabine Pass.
Image: Lake Charles, Louisiana, Nexrad Radar 7:42 UTC (2:42 am central time, Saturday, 24 September 2005) shortly before it went off line, evidently due to the storm.
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GPS Map
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GPS Map Details
File Name: rita.gpx (11KB)
Revised: 23 September 2005
Class B
Data
Track: the Caribbean to Gulf Coast
Waypoints:
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RITA01 - ExxonMobil Beaumont Refinery
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RITA02 - ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery
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RITA03 - Shell Deer Park Refinery
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RITA04 - BP Texas City Refinery
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RITA05 - Sabine Pass
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RITA06 - Port Arthur
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RITA07 - Orange
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RITA08 - Lake Charles, Louisiana
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RITA09 - Bridge City
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RITA10 - Beaumont
References
Information, data and images, from the following web sites were used to compile this GPS Map of Hurricane Rita: Coordinates or the storm's track came from Weather.Unisis.com; satellite imagery was obtained from NOAA's Operational Significant Event Imagery and Radar Imagery from NWS Doppler Radar - Lake Charles, LA.
Related: Katrina
