STORM2K

Hi all!
Got a question for everyone here Does anyone know a public source for RMW (max wind radii) for historical storms. Or is there a way to extract such data from something like this: NHC 2004 Recon archives? I need RMW values for times corresponding to NHC best track times (6hr intervals).

Thanks in advance and cheers!

Does this get you pointed in the right direction: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/wind.html

Yes, to an extent. I've been using those for awhile now, but "extracting" those manually can be a bit tedious, I was looking for ready to go numbers I guess I am lazy :*

I remember hearing something that they're going to be trying to work that into HURDAT, but I see no evidence of that so far . . . but that's not surprising considering their current progress on the project . . .

Carla was the standard for max wind radii when I was just getting started with Gale force winds extending from Corpus Christi to the La border at landfall if I remember correctly.

ps The 1886 Indianola hurricane was also reported to have affected the entire Texas coast when it hit and effectively destroyed what had been the largest port in Texas at the time.

MBryant wrote:Carla was the standard for max wind radii when I was just getting started with Gale force winds extending from Corpus Christi to the La border at landfall if I remember correctly.

ps The 1886 Indianola hurricane was also reported to have affected the entire Texas coast when it hit and effectively destroyed what had been the largest port in Texas at the time.

I read that the 1886 Indianola Hurricane was a Category 5 likely, probably <=900 mb at peak in GOM.