As Hurricane Bertha passed east of Cape Canaveral, FL a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within 300 km of Bertha sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 aircraft during the afternoon of 4 August […]
As Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened as it passed east of the Bahama Islands a NOAA P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal winds within 300 km of Bertha sampled from the tail Doppler radar on the P-3 aircraft during the […]
As Tropical Storm Bertha passed north of the Turks and Caicos Islands (the island coast line is visible as black line in the lower left of the G-IV images) a NOAA P-3 and a G-IV mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included here you see images of the horizontal […]
The August science meeting was used to discuss the results from the 6 P-3 and 1 G-IV missions into Tropical Storm/Hurricane Bertha. The agenda for the discussion was: Missions Overview (Reasor) Science Discussions 20140801H1 Ferry/Ocean Survey (Uhlhorn) 20140802H1 Ocean Survey/Center Fix (Uhlhorn) 20140803H1 TDR (Rogers/Reasor) 20140803N1 TDR (Dunion) 20140804I1 TDR (Bucci) 20140804H1 TDR (Uhlhorn) 20140805I1 […]
On the night of August 17-18th, 1969, Hurricane Camille came howling into Waveland, MS with estimated sustained winds of 175 mph (280 km/hr) and a storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m) to become the second strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the United States (after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935). Camille also […]
Hurricane Charley at landfall as seen by NWS Tampa radar On Friday August 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley came roaring ashore at Port Charlotte, FL. The hurricane had rapidly intensified prior to its landfall. Also, since its track was running parallel to the southwest Florida coast, any slight variation in course would bring a large […]
NASA MODIS satellite photo of Typhoon Rananim On August 12, 2004 Typhoon Rananim made landfall in China’s Zheijang province. It had formed a week earlier and had tracked between Taiwan and Okinawa, where it produced winds and heavy rains on those islands and caused one death on Taiwan. Its landfall on the Chinese mainland was […]
As the remains of Hurricane Arthur transitioned into an extra-tropical cyclone as it approached landfall in Nova Scotia (the Gulf of Maine and Nova Scotia coast are visible as black line in the upper half of the images) a P-3 mission collected airborne Doppler radar data to use in initializing and evaluating model guidance. Included […]
Hurricane/Typhoon John’s track As Hurricane Genevieve recently made its way into the western Pacific to become Super Typhoon Genevieve, it is worth remembering that twenty years ago, a similar storm wended its way from the eastern Pacific across the International Dateline to become a typhoon and then backtracked across that line to become a hurricane […]
You can watch the video at http://www.cbs12.com/weather/features/hurricane-guide/stories/hurricane_video/vid_81.shtml.
