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WTNT61 KNHC 080414
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HURRICANE IDA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL112009
1115 PM EST SAT NOV 7 2009
...IDA REACHES HURRICANE INTENSITY...
DATA FROM NOAA BUOY 42056...LOCATED IN THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN
SEA ABOUT 120 MILES...195 KM...EAST-SOUTHEAST OF COZUMEL MEXICO...
RECENTLY REPORTED A 1-MINUTE SUSTAINED WIND OF 74 MPH...119 KM/HR.
THIS INDICATES THAT IDA HAS ONCE AGAIN REACHED HURRICANE STATUS...
WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF AROUND 75 MPH...120 KM/HR.
AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT IS CURRENTLY
APPROACHING IDA AND WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE
INTENSITY AND STRUCTURE OF THE HURRICANE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
FORECASTER BRENNAN/KIMBERLAIN
2 comments:
Buoy Boy does great work, doesn't he???
So, we just dispense with the Tropical Storm Warnings and jump straight to the Hurricane Watch? Normally, the NOAA/NWS/NHC/TPC/XYZ follows a pretty strict protocol for issuing watches / warnings, don't they?? And why for such a small, focused area of the coast? I thought they typically issued Hurricane Watches with TS watches / warnings laterally along the coast. So we read anything into this???
Well this storm has completely caught them off guard. I believe they had started their holiday vacation rotation already.
What I read into the sudden Hurricane Watch is the uncertaintly at the tail-end of the model-runs, and the storm going straight up the sweet spot (that's what she said, anyway). Too close to call, and no one was really paying attention to this one, so raise the emergency up a notch. I think they did the right thing here.
HLG
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