ATL: JOAQUIN - Post-Tropical - Discussion

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Re: ATL: JOAQUIN - Post-Tropical - Discussion

#3161 Postby tropicana » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:53 am

ex-Joaquin fading away now, even as a low pressure

WONT50 LFPW 120710
SECURITE ON METAREA 2, METEO-FRANCE,
WARNING NR 453, MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015 AT 0705 UTC

GENERAL SYNOPSIS, MONDAY 12 AT 00 UTC.
LOW 1002 40N11W, OR 145 MILES WSW OF PORTO, PORTUGAL MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AND FILLING, EXPECTED 1011
37N09W BY 13/12 UTC.
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Re: ATL: JOAQUIN - Post-Tropical - Discussion

#3162 Postby tropicana » Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:37 pm

bye bye joaquin

WONT50 LFPW 121825
SECURITE ON METAREA 2, METEO-FRANCE,
WARNING NR 454, MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015 AT 1820 UTC

GENERAL SYNOPSIS, MONDAY 12 AT 12 UTC.
LOW 1006 JUST WEST PORTUGAL SLOW MOVING SOUTHERLY AND FILLING,
EXPECTED 1011 35N09W BY 14/00 UTC.
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#3163 Postby northjaxpro » Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:05 pm

Hurricane Joaquin's epitaph:

Formed
September 28, 2015

Dissipated
October 15, 2015
(Extratropical after October 8)

Strong Category 4 Tropical Cyclone: The strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone since Hurricane Igor in 2010.

Highest winds
1-minute sustained: 155 mph (250 km/h)


Lowest pressure
931 mbar (hPa); 27.49 inHg



Fatalities
34 directly (El Faro sinking, 1 death Bahamas), 21 people indirectly (United States Mid Atlantic region 19 in South Carolina, 2 in North Carolina)

Damage
At least $60 million (Extensive devastation mainly to the Acklins, Long Island, Crooked Island, San Salvador and Rum Key in the Central Bahamas)

Areas affected:
Turks and Caicos Islands, Central Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Southeastern United States, Bermuda, Azores, Iberian Peninsula


The Bahamian government, with the help from the other other nations, including the U.S. which was indirectly affected by the storm, should submit the official requests to the WMO to have Joaquin's name retired imo!! Joaquin was an absolute monster, a devastating killer tropical cyclone and a storm for the history books for certain!!!

I will always remember this killer storm not only for the tragedy he bought to the ill-fated El Faro cargo ship, which was based here in Jacksonville, and the devastation to the Bahamas for 2 days. However, for little did I would realize I became a blind squirrel who found a nut for once, got lucky and stuck my neck out on this forum to be the first to foresee development of this storm from its origin of an upper level Low.
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Re: ATL: JOAQUIN - Post-Tropical - Discussion

#3164 Postby cycloneye » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:44 pm

It looks like the ship El Faro was found down at 15,000 feet.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wre ... nd-n455201
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#3165 Postby northjaxpro » Sun Nov 01, 2015 6:55 am

:uarrow: Well, for the families of the 33 crew members of the El Faro, although this news never will ease the grief and pain of losing their loved ones, at least they can have some bit of closure with this tragedy with the Navy finding the ship wreckage. Also, the Navy will hopefully be able to locate the recorder box to help in the NTSB investigation and shed more detail as to what happened in those horrific final hours before the ship sunk while being in the northwestern edge of the eyewall of Joaquin.
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#3166 Postby northjaxpro » Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:19 pm

Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that the extreme conditions and the tremendous storm surge in Joaquin lead to the cause to the sinking of the El Faro. Apparently, the NTSB will finish their investigation without having the data recorder as the search for that has ended.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/el-faro-se ... d/36481302
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Re: ATL: JOAQUIN - Post-Tropical - Discussion

#3167 Postby northjaxpro » Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:24 pm

The National Hurricane Center has completed their post analysis on Category 4 Hurricane Joaquin. I have provided the entire report on the link below:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112015_Joaquin.pdf
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