2 mile wide eye wall question?

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2 mile wide eye wall question?

#1 Postby smashmode » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:34 am

What are the implications of a 2 mile wide eye wall?

I have never seen it like that.
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#2 Postby jax » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:41 am

it's like an ice skater that pulls her arms in while she's spinning...
much easier to reach higher wind speeds.

Wilma's hurricane force winds ONLY extend out 15 miles...
Tiny yet powerfull storm.
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#3 Postby cjrciadt » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:50 am

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ting eye means tiny field of intense winds.
larger eye means larger area of intense winds.
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#4 Postby jpigott » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:54 am

i know it's tough to tell w/o recon out there right now, but has this inner eyewall collapsed yet. I don't think i've ever seen an eyewall this small in diameter be sustained over such a long period of time. Heck, there have been tornados larger in diameter.
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#5 Postby O Town » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:00 am

Less people will feel the effect of the most intense winds around the eyewall. But the people who do get it, it will be very intense. It is tightley wound, it will be able to maintain its strenth better with a small eye. IMO.
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#6 Postby x-y-no » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:06 am

Can't remember seeing an eye sustained at this small size for this long. You get eyes that fuctuate in the 6 to 10 NM range in intense storms all the time, but 2 to 4 NM is pretty wild.
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#7 Postby jpigott » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:13 am

i've absolutely never seen internal storm dynamics like this. What will happen to this storm when that eyewall collpases, given how tight the pressure gradient is. For goodness sake hurricane winds only spread out approx 20 miles. This storm is going to mess itself if that eyewall collapeses. How far will the wind field expand, how wide will the new eyewall be, will it contract to similar proportions. Wilma still has plenty of warm water left to go over, who knows, once she goes thru erwc she might try to break her own intensity record??? (I think i'm beginning to hear the Looney Tunes music, i need a room with white padded walls at this point)
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#8 Postby ChaserUK » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:13 am

Well all I can say I am officially well and truly stunned by the lastest developents with Wilma.

Speechless.
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#9 Postby ChaserUK » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:17 am

Well all I can say I am officially well and truly stunned by the lastest developents with Wilma.

Speechless.
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