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    Hurricane Watch Net Activates for “Catastrophic” Hurricane
    Ida

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    ** Hurricane Watch Net Activates for “Catastrophic” Hurric
    ane Ida
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    August 29, 2021 | For immediate release |


    The following news item is courtesy of the American Radio Relay League:

    The Hurricane Watch Net (http://www.hwn.org/) (HWN) is on Alert Level 5
    , “Catastrophic Response Mode,” as Hurricane Ida heads
    toward landfall on the coast of Louisiana today — the 16th annive
    rsary of Hurricane Katrina — after gaining considerable strength i
    n the Gulf of Mexico.

    The net, on 14.325 and 7.268 MHz, works in concert with WX4NHC (https: //w4ehw.fiu.edu/WX-form1.php) at the National Hurricane Center (https://w ww.nhc.noaa.gov/) (NHC) in Miami to share real-time surface-weather obser vations with the Center’s forecasters.

    In its 1500 UTC report, the NHC said the “eye of extremely dange
    rous Category 4 Hurricane Ida nearing the southeastern coast of Louisiana
    … catastrophic storm surge and hurricane-force winds moving onshor
    e.”

    Officials are saying Ida could be the most powerful hurricane to hit Louis
    iana in more than a century.

    As of 1500 UTC, Hurricane Ida was some 85 miles south of New Orleans wit
    h maximum sustained winds of 150 MPH, moving northwest at 13 MPH. WX4NHC
    plans to be active until midnight Eastern Time for Hurricane Ida, welco
    ming all reports from stations in the affected area.

    “These surface reports are very important to the NHC, as they ar
    e real-time reports of weather data, flooding, or damage that help the
    NHC Hurricane Specialists fill in gaps in data and help understand what i
    s happening at the ground level,” Julio Ripoll, WD4R, at the
    Hurricane Center explained. WX4NHC will be monitoring the HWN, the VoIP
    Hurricane Net (http://www.voipwx.net/) , Winlink, APRS, and other m
    odes.

    The VoIP Hurricane Net uses EchoLink WX-TALK Conference, node 7203. (IRL
    P node 9219). The WX4NHC Hurricane Report Form (https://w4ehw.fiu.edu/WX-f orm1.php) is online.

    “This remains a serious, life-threatening situation,”
    the National Weather Service tweeted.

    Source: ARRL – Hurricane Watch Net Activates for “Catastro
    phic” Hurricane Ida (arrl.org) (https://www.arrl.org/news/hurrican e-watch-net-activates-for-catastrophic-hurricane-ida)


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    Carlos Alberto Santamaria Gonzalez, CO2JC
    Emergency Communications Coordinator
    International Amateur Radio Union, Region 2.




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