StormClouds63 wrote:http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/12Tides.pdf
Read the summary on the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane chapter. It says that the Labor Day storm was easily a "category 6" hurricane if the SS scale included such a ranking.
I believe the most anticipated reanalysis yet to come is on Camille (1969). Will it stay a category 5? I ask that question based on the following:
http://ldctstormchaser.blogspot.com/2010/08/hurricane-camille-41-years-later.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/camille1969/wind.html
I took a look at Camille, used all the relationships to estimate. Based on the Brown et al P/W relationship, the winds for a 909mb pressure at steady state north of 25N would be 141 kt and for a weakening storm would be 135 kt. Size was medium and speed was near what would normally be expected there, so no adjustments need to be made. I couldn't find any uber-extreme wind reports on land that were legitimate sustained reports (nothing beyond what would normally be expected in a major hurricane landfall), so I would put the landfall intensity at 135 kt. There were no recon wind reports in the time, but the only flight-level wind report - when the storm was way out in the Gulf - was 165 kt (supports 150 kt) at the time of the 901mb pressure, which I believe was legitimate. P/W relationships for 901mb also balance out to about 150 kt.
Peak intensity is problematic - there was a significant gap in recon coverage, and an assumption could be made that Camille peaked in that period (905mb followed 18 hours later by 901mb). However, there is no proof of that. The peak intensity would be 150 kt if no assumption was made, and 155 kt if one could be made.
http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/cg ... =oa_theses for the relationships (starting on page 165)
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