Hurricane Ike and Its Impact on Coastal Texas

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I know very little about hurricanes. I know what the eye is - is the eyewall the worst part of the storm? If so, why?
 
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#78
this is like a game thread - without the shoddy coaching and redneck homer contingent.
 
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VolinArizona said:
I know very little about hurricanes. I know what the eye is - is the eyewall the worst part of the storm? If so, why?
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In general, the eye-wall is the worst part of the storm. The eye-wall of a well-defined hurricane will extend completely around the eye..and is a "wall" of storms with very high cloud-tops and the highest winds of the storm...wrapped up around the eye. The heavy convection and rain in the eye-wall (falls there because it is getting sucked up there) brings the high-level winds down to the surface and that accounts for the very high surface winds at the eye-wall.

Once the eye-wall passes, then you have relative calm in the eye...and then another eye-wall you have to go through (in well-organized storms).
 
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notverycrucial said:
this image really is a thing of beauty, shame it has to come to an end so abruptly.
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I would say it is more a source of awe...after Katrina, I stopped finding them beautiful...but I know where you're coming from. This guy will bring the pain for a while though because of the large breadth of the hurricane force winds and the flat terrain it will cross over.
 
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Man...this is going to be close.....there's been a steady wobble to the N-NW over the last hour, which is good for Galveston island...but those are often followed by almost due-west wobbles...it's going to be about which one makes the last move (this does sound like a game thread...)
 
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whoever has possession last probably wins (or loses in this case). btw, my wife is equally as annoyed as with games.
 
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This jog better play out, because that southside is going to wrap around and really hit Galveston if it doesn't. I think that the jog may have worked though...we'll see over the next hour or so.
 
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Next advisory will be in a few minutes... I'm betting it's a Cat 3. It definitely looks like it now based on the satellite imagery. Probably just need confirmation for Hurricane hunters. We'll see.
 
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notverycrucial said:
Next advisory will be in a few minutes... I'm betting it's a Cat 3. It definitely looks like it now based on the satellite imagery. Probably just need confirmation for Hurricane hunters. We'll see.
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Sounds like it remained a Cat 2 at 110 mph winds. I'm surprised that the south side doesn't have stronger surface winds than that. Man...it is looking like that 1 hour of N-NE jog may just save billions of dollar of damage...if it holds...
 
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TennTradition said:
Sounds like it remained a Cat 2 at 110 mph winds. I'm surprised that the south side doesn't have stronger surface winds than that. Man...it is looking like that 1 hour of N-NE jog may just save billions of dollar of damage...if it holds...
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Yep, no chance for 3 now, and I think you're right about that N jog. Strange that a hurricane with such low pressure isn't able to produce stronger winds.
 
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This is like Andrew in that it arrived (primarily) at night. I'll never forget the feeling of putting my hand on the window and feeling it push back. Couldn't see a thing. Afraid to look.
 
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notverycrucial said:
Yep, no chance for 3 now, and I think you're right about that N jog. Strange that a hurricane with such low pressure isn't able to produce stronger winds.
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If Ike wanted to get much stronger winds, he would have had to get his act together about 8-12 hours ago....I think that it could still make Cat 3...but probably not. I think that is actually a good thing...not because the wind damage will be less (because it really won't)...but because I want this thing to make landfall at a Cat 2 and remind people that you can't just ignore a storm because it isn't a "major hurricane" .... if it made Cat 3, it might allow people to think that rapid intensification before landfall contributed to the damage...which doesn't look to be the case.
 
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volmanbill said:
This is like Andrew in that it arrived (primarily) at night. I'll never forget the feeling of putting my hand on the window and feeling it push back. Couldn't see a thing. Afraid to look.
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How close were you to the eye-wall? That was an amazing storm...such a tight eye with horrifying winds...
 
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volmanbill said:
This is like Andrew in that it arrived (primarily) at night. I'll never forget the feeling of putting my hand on the window and feeling it push back. Couldn't see a thing. Afraid to look.
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The sad part for him is that he is standing out there thinking that he is in 120-130 mph winds...and he keeps on reporting them from his anemometer. I wish that someone would tell him that it isn't reading mph, it is reading km/hr. There is no way that he is standing up in 130 mph gusts....no way...not even when bracing against a tree. He is actually in gusts between 60 and 75 mph...which is serious...but explainable...I wish someone would figure that out and tell him.
 
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Not all that close (relatively speaking) but it was a huge storm. I was in Ft Lauderdale. I had planned on evacuating but by the time I finished securing my business it was too late. Very few times have I feared for my life. That was one night I'll never forget. Watching Brian Norcross on the battery tv telling a woman not to let go of the bathroom door no matter what...the rest of her house was gone.
 
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TennTradition said:
If Ike wanted to get much stronger winds, he would have had to get his act together about 8-12 hours ago....I think that it could still make Cat 3...but probably not. I think that is actually a good thing...not because the wind damage will be less (because it really won't)...but because I want this thing to make landfall at a Cat 2 and remind people that you can't just ignore a storm because it isn't a "major hurricane" .... if it made Cat 3, it might allow people to think that rapid intensification before landfall contributed to the damage...which doesn't look to be the case.
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That's a very good point. Perhaps more attention needs to be paid to Integrated Kinetic Energy (I.K.E.) modeling instead of just Safir Simpson.
 
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TennTradition said:
The sad part for him is that he is standing out there thinking that he is in 120-130 mph winds...and he keeps on reporting them from his anemometer. I wish that someone would tell him that it isn't reading mph, it is reading km/hr. There is no way that he is standing up in 130 mph gusts....no way...not even when bracing against a tree. He is actually in gusts between 60 and 75 mph...which is serious...but explainable...I wish someone would figure that out and tell him.
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What channel are you all watching? 130 mph!! Um, no.
 
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