ATL: HANNA - Remnants - Discussion

[BYG Jacob]

Who needs recon when its this close?
18dBz Echo Top.
Can't get much more symmetrical than this.

https://i.imgur.com/pnrXXB8.png

The rain rate in that tail is nuts

[USTropics]

Looks like a direct hit in Kennedy County south of Riveria. There is a HUGE wind farm that is in the path. Curious on how those big wins generators will do with Cat 1 winds?? Thoughts?

Check this link out, but wind farms can actually withstand cat3 hurricane force winds - https://cleanenergy.org/blog/texas-wind ... ne-harvey/. I believe they temporarily shut them down when sustained winds of 55 mph or more occur.

[Highteeld]

min pressure probably down a mb or two based off the Buoy reading (981/35.5kt)

[toad strangler]

Big eye systems are tough to knock down. this won't just fall apart after landfall.

[Chemmers]

I record next recon play will find off pressure off 972

[cheezyWXguy]

What is it about hurricanes strengthening upon landfall on the Texas coast? Hanna, Harvey, Humberto 07, and handful of others. Is the coastline just oriented to cause more favorable frictional effects, or do storms landfalling in this area tend to pull in moisture from more favorable sources than the northern gulf coast? Or am I just succumbing to selection bias?

Edit: should add alex 2010 and Claudette 2003 to that list

[LadyBug72]

Will she hit Corpus or south of corpus?

[Hurricane Mike]

Here's an 11:30am video update on Hurricane Hanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7OZ2UEJkE

[GCANE]

Looks like a direct hit in Kennedy County south of Riveria. There is a HUGE wind farm that is in the path. Curious on how those big wins generators will do with Cat 1 winds?? Thoughts?

Cat 1?
You must not have attended the countless lectures here on how wind speed is related to height above the ground.

[AdamFirst]

Will she hit Corpus or south of corpus?

Looking like south of Corpus. Corpus may receive fringes of the northern eyewall, however.

[HurricaneBrain]

Aric absolutely nailed the strength of this storm in his forecast. Wxman nailed the landfall location. Grateful to have both of you on this forum!

[GCANE]

Large rotation signature.
Anyone seeing anything Lvl 3?

[KC7NEC]

What is it about hurricanes strengthening upon landfall on the Texas coast? Hanna, Harvey, Humberto 07, and handful of others. Is the coastline just oriented to cause more favorable frictional effects, or do storms landfalling in this area tend to pull in moisture from more favorable sources than the northern gulf coast? Or am I just succumbing to selection bias?

Edit: should add alex 2010 and Claudette 2003 to that list

A combination of water temps and time. The gulf typically is a bathtub and storms have plenty of time swimming in it as the travel west.

[Highteeld]

[Jr0d]

What is it about hurricanes strengthening upon landfall on the Texas coast? Hanna, Harvey, Humberto 07, and handful of others. Is the coastline just oriented to cause more favorable frictional effects, or do storms landfalling in this area tend to pull in moisture from more favorable sources than the northern gulf coast? Or am I just succumbing to selection bias?

Edit: should add alex 2010 and Claudette 2003 to that list

Must have something to do with things being bigger in Texas...hurricanes included.

[davidiowx]

What is it about hurricanes strengthening upon landfall on the Texas coast? Hanna, Harvey, Humberto 07, and handful of others. Is the coastline just oriented to cause more favorable frictional effects, or do storms landfalling in this area tend to pull in moisture from more favorable sources than the northern gulf coast? Or am I just succumbing to selection bias?

Edit: should add alex 2010 and Claudette 2003 to that list

A combination of water temps and time. The gulf typically is a bathtub and storms have plenty of time swimming in it as the travel west.

The curvature of the coastline and the general shape of the GoM plays a factor as well. It’s basically a huge circle shape

[Highteeld]

Eye trying to clear out in earnest now

[shiny-pebble]

When's the next plane going in???

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[ConvergenceZone]

They said on the weather channel a moment ago that it’s unlikely this will hit Cat 2 due to the size of the storm, and certain features they are seeing on the satellite representation. So we will see if they will be correct or not

[GCANE]

AF307 on the runway.
They'll be able to get some low-altitude passes in.