Longest Lived Cat 5 in the ATL

[Stormsfury]

Was Hurricane Dog in 1950.

The storm lasted 60 hours as a CAT 5 storm from 9/5 00z until 9/7 12z (when it weakened to 130 kts-150 mph). At its peak, Dog was at 160 kts for 18 hours (or 185 mph) ...

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.gif

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.dat

In 1950, 13 TC's developed, 11 hurricanes, and 8 majors ... two of the 3 hurricanes just missed major status at 95 kts (110 mph) ... Also of note: the first SIX storms achieved major hurricane status and the seventh was a near miss (95kts - 110 mph)

[ameriwx2003]

Hurricane Dog had some bite to it didn't it:):)

[bayouwxman]

Yep...Dog the longest continuous Cat. 5, while Allen had the most total hours (66):

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/satellite/satelliteseye/educational/cat5hur.html

P.S. Probably a good time to remind those who are unfamilar that the list of hurricane names was initially just the phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, etc.)

[capecodder]

Ah, the beauty of a good wx board. Someone always has the answer to a question. I've been wondering that since Isabel made it to Cat 5.Thanks.

[isobar]

Interesting how 2 yrs in a row, 1960 & 1961, there were 2 cat 5's in each year. Pretty phenomenal!

[AussieMark]

During the "quiet" period we had years that produced category 5's in sucessive years

1979-1980
1988-1989

and actually between 1977 - 1980 - 3 of the 4 years produced a category 5.

but after Hugo it was 4 years till Andrew
after Andrew it was 6 years till Mitch
after Mitch it was 5 years till Isabel.

Seeing how warm the tropical Atlantic as a whole is could this the first year since the 1960's to produce multiple Category 5's in a year.

[Superstorm2004]

It is about to become ISABELL.

[abajan]

Hurricane Dog had some bite to it didn't it:):)

There was actually one called "Dog"?!!

ROFLMAO

[stormcrow]

Yeah and they also had a storm called Love that year!

[AussieMark]

between 1950 - 1953 they used the phonetic alphabet to name storm.

1954 - 1978 they used womens names

1979 - Present they used alternating mens-womens name.

[Steve Cosby]

This may start a political firestorm but the funny one is this Texas congressman - oops, congresswoman - no, let's try congresscritter: Sheila Jackson-Lee. She's mad that African-American names are not included in the lists. What's the saying? Can't please all of the people all of the time?

http://www.hillnews.com/open_secrets/072303.htm

(scroll down to second article)

[Stormsfury]

This may start a political firestorm but the funny one is this Texas congressman - oops, congresswoman - no, let's try congresscritter: Sheila Jackson-Lee. She's mad that African-American names are not included in the lists. What's the saying? Can't please all of the people all of the time?

http://www.hillnews.com/open_secrets/072303.htm

(scroll down to second article)

I remember that being brought up before ... caused quite a firestorm so to speak... However, aren't a lot of people, regardless of color or race, represented by hurricane names? ... Ms. Jackson-Lee needs to worry about other more important things, otherwise, she'll likely find herself without a political career soon.

SF

[OtherHD]

Wow, Hurricane Dog was a mean lady wasn't she?

What?? Why all the piercing stares?...

\mean lady\, n. [OE. biche, bicche, AS. bicce; cf. Icel. bikkja, G. betze, peize.] 1. The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

[GalvestonDuck]

LOL! That's how I refer to Allison.

[Steve Cosby]

Ms. Jackson-Lee needs to worry about other more important things, otherwise, she'll likely find herself without a political career soon.

SF

Isn't that the truth?