Woooo Baby 50 to 100 feet waves! Such a huge Hurricane!!!!

[max]

http://www.extremestorms.com/c008.htm


This is with Hurricane Gilbert but still.

I can't imagine what Hurricane Wilma looked like down there at her peak strength

Heck she beat Hurricane Gilbert and was stronger.

I know he didn't hit the U.S. but he could of.




One thing that I will always remember about Hurricane Gilbert is how large it was and how when it was in the Gulf it covered the whole thing.

I have never seen a Hurricane that big and hope we don't again.

Not even Katrina was that big but she was still big enough.


Can you imagine what kind of problems this big of a powerful hurricane would cause the U.S. if it hit ?

[Jim Cantore]

In your post title you quote "Huge Hurricane"

Wilma was tiny at her peak windfield wise, However I wouldn't be shocked to hear about 50-60 foot waves.

[max]

In your post title you quote "Huge Hurricane"

Wilma was tiny at her peak windfield wise, However I wouldn't be shocked to hear about 50-60 foot waves.

Wow Gilbert was a monster to be feared like Typhoon Tip except Typhoon Tip may have been a lot larger and more powerful but on the other side of the world.

[Jim Cantore]

You could fit at least 3 Gilberts inside of Tip

[max]

You could fit at least 3 Gilberts inside of Tip

Passes out and dies.

Typhoon Tip is as big as half of the US if I remember right but when you say it like you did it makes it even more real and scary.

What would the U.S do if this large of a Cat. 5 Hurricane hit ?

[wxmann_91]

What would the U.S do if this large of a Cat. 5 Hurricane hit ?

It would be crippled but that really isn't likely, if not impossible.

[max]

What would the U.S do if this large of a Cat. 5 Hurricane hit ?

It would be crippled but that really isn't likely, if not impossible.

Why is it not likely and impossible please?

[Regit]

What would the U.S do if this large of a Cat. 5 Hurricane hit ?

It would be crippled but that really isn't likely, if not impossible.

Why is it not likely and impossible please?

For one, it's hard to get that much open water in the Atlantic, though it would be [i]possible[/], in theory, to get a storm that large in the Atlantic...

As far as US landfall, the theoretical storm that huge would interact with land for an incredibly long time before landfall and wouldn't be able to maintain Cat 5 intensity by the time hurricane force winds hit.

[max]

What would the U.S do if this large of a Cat. 5 Hurricane hit ?

It would be crippled but that really isn't likely, if not impossible.

Why is it not likely and impossible please?

For one, it's hard to get that much open water in the Atlantic, though it would be [i]possible[/], in theory, to get a storm that large in the Atlantic...

As far as US landfall, the theoretical storm that huge would interact with land for an incredibly long time before landfall and wouldn't be able to maintain Cat 5 intensity by the time hurricane force winds hit.

Ok. Still could hit as a Cat. 3 or maybe Cat. 4

I wonder how big the storm surge would be?

[bob rulz]

I remember that Hurricane Ivan produced a 115-foot wave in the Gulf of Mexico (or was it the Caribbean Sea?). I read it on Wikipedia, but it doesn't appear to be on the article anymore (not that I looked real hard).

[max]

I remember that Hurricane Ivan produced a 115-foot wave in the Gulf of Mexico (or was it the Caribbean Sea?). I read it on Wikipedia, but it doesn't appear to be on the article anymore (not that I looked real hard).

Wow now thats one large wave!

[Regit]

What would the U.S do if this large of a Cat. 5 Hurricane hit ?

It would be crippled but that really isn't likely, if not impossible.

Why is it not likely and impossible please?

For one, it's hard to get that much open water in the Atlantic, though it would be [i]possible[/], in theory, to get a storm that large in the Atlantic...

As far as US landfall, the theoretical storm that huge would interact with land for an incredibly long time before landfall and wouldn't be able to maintain Cat 5 intensity by the time hurricane force winds hit.

Ok. Still could hit as a Cat. 3 or maybe Cat. 4

I wonder how big the storm surge would be?

We're really working hypothetically here, but I'd doubt such a strom would be major. Land interaction really does a number on hurricanes. They get continental dry air in them and really fall apart sometimes.

A storm that big would interact with land for a long time. Look at Floyd in 1999, it interacted with land and dry air for a while and went from almost Cat 5 to Cat 2 pretty quickly.

Hazel, on the other hand, took a similar track (up the SE coast) and landfalled with winds in the 135 area or so. Why the difference? Hazel was moving 45 mph and had thus been interacting with land for a very short period of time.

Similarly, Hugo was a Cat 4 (some argue Cat 5) at landfall partially because it had come right out of open water, rather than tracking up along Florida first.

[max]

Yeah the perfect saturation for a Cat. 5 Hurricane that large for it to develop then race toward landfall at that 45 mph then once before it hits land like a few miles before it slows down to like 9 to 15 mph.

That won't ever happen though lol.

Ok I take that back. I don't want mother nature to prove me wrong.

[NC George]

Hazel, on the other hand, took a similar track (up the SE coast) and landfalled with winds in the 135 area or so. Why the difference? Hazel was moving 45 mph and had thus been interacting with land for a very short period of time.

A big reason it had 135 mph winds was the 45 mph forward speed. Had it been travelling at a more normal 15-20 mph, the winds would have been just 105-110 (like Floyd.)