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06 Sep 2017 / Caribbean Sea
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for: Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, and Nevis; Saba, St. Eustatius, and Sint Maarten; Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy; British Virgin Islands; U.S. Virgin Islands; Puerto Rico, Vieques, and Culebra; Dominican Republic from Cabo Engano to the northern border with Haiti; Guadeloupe; and Southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for: Haiti from the northern border with the Dominican Republic to Le Mole St. Nicholas; Turks and Caicos Islands; Southeastern Bahamas; Cuba from Matanzas province eastward to Guantanamo province; and Central Bahamas.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for: Dominican Republic from south of Cabo Engano westward to the southern border with Haiti.
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for: Haiti from south of Le Mole St. Nicholas to Port-Au-Prince.
At 800am (1200 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Irma was located near 18.1 North, 63.3 West. Irma is moving toward the west-northwest near 16 mph (26 km/h), and this general motion is expected to continue for the next couple of days. On the forecast track, the extremely dangerous core of Irma will move over portions of the northern Virgin Islands today, pass near or just north of Puerto Rico this afternoon or tonight, and pass near or just north of the coast of the Dominican Republic Thursday [7 September].
Maximum sustained winds remain near 185 mph (295 km/h) with higher gusts. Irma is a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Irma is forecast to remain a powerful category 4 or 5 hurricane during the next couple of days.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 50 miles (85 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles (280 km)...
...Hurricane conditions will continue today within the hurricane warning area in the Leeward Islands.
Hurricane conditions are expected to begin within the British and U.S. Virgin Islands this morning and spread westward over portions of Puerto Rico later today.
Hurricane conditions are expected to begin within the hurricane warning area in the Dominican Republic early Thursday, with tropical storm conditions beginning tonight.
Hurricane conditions are expected in the warning area in the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands beginning Thursday night.
Hurricane and tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area in Haiti by early Thursday and in the central Bahamas and Cuba by Friday...
(For information about operations in the Americas, contact the GAC Hub Agency Center in Houston at [email protected])
Source: Extracts from National Hurricane Center, Miami FL, Hurricane Irma Intermediate Advisory No.29A issued at 800am AST on 6 September 2017
