Question?

[*StOrmsPr*]

Are my eyes fooling me?? i always thought Georges was a cat 4 not 5
anybody know anything about this??

[HURAKAN]

NHC/TPC:
20/0600 16.0 56.3 937 135 knots Minimum Pressure

[*StOrmsPr*]

NHC/TPC:
20/0600 16.0 56.3 937 135 knots Minimum Pressure

Thanks HURAKAN!
well that's a cat 4! maybe a mistake ,Unisys site was having server problems not a long time ago.

[Brent]

It wasn't a Cat 5 according to the NHC Public advisories. It DID get to 150 mph east of the Islands though.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1998GEORGESadv.html

HURRICANE GEORGES ADVISORY NUMBER 19
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
11 PM AST SAT SEP 19 1998

...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE GEORGES HEADING
TOWARD THE LEEWARD ISLANDS...

A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ISLANDS OF THE LESSER
ANTILLES FROM DOMINICA NORTHWARD THROUGH ANGUILLA...EXCEPT FOR THE
FRENCH ISLAND OF ST. BARTHELEMY AND THE FRENCH PORTION OF ST.
MARTIN. A HURRICANE WARNING WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED WESTWARD FROM
ANGUILLA ON SUNDAY MORNING.

A HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MARTINIQUE SOUTHWARD TO ST.
LUCIA...FOR THE BRITISH AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS...ST. BARTHELEMY
...FRENCH ST. MARTIN AND FOR PUERTO RICO.

AT 11 PM AST...0300Z...THE GOVERNMENTS OF ST. LUCIA AND MARTINIQUE
HAVE ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THOSE ISLANDS.

AT 11 PM AST...0300Z...THE WELL-DEFINED EYE OF HURRICANE GEORGES WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 15.8 NORTH...LONGITUDE 55.8 WEST OR ABOUT 360
MILES ...580 KM...EAST OF GUADELOUPE IN THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.

OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS GEORGES HAS WOBBLED TOWARD THE WEST. A WEST
TO WEST NORTHWEST MOTION NEAR 18 MPH...30 KM/HR...IS EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. ON THIS TRACK...THE CORE OF THE
HURRICANE WILL BE NEAR THE LEEWARD ISLANDS LATE SUNDAY. HOWEVER...
WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THOSE ISLANDS WILL BEGIN TO DETERIORATE LATE
SUNDAY MORNING.

AIR FORCE RECONNAISSANCE REPORTS INDICATE THAT GEORGES IS NOW AN
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR/SIMPSON
HURRICANE SCALE. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 150 MPH...240
KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY ARE LIKELY
DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. GEORGES IS NOW SIMILAR IN STRENGTH AND
SIZE TO EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE HUGO WHEN IT HIT THE
NORTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN IN 1989.

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 115 MILES...185 KM...
MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS
EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 200 MILES...325 KM.

THE LATEST MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE REPORTED BY NOAA RECONNAISSANCE
AIRCRAFT WAS 939 MB...27.73 INCHES.

RAINFALL TOTALS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES...LOCALLY HIGHER OVER MOUNTAINOUS
TERRAIN... ARE LIKELY NEAR THE PATH OF GEORGES.

STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 5 TO 10 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS...
ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES ARE EXPECTED NEAR
AND TO THE NORTH OF WHERE THE HURRICANE INTERACTS WITH THE ISLANDS.

REPEATING THE 11 PM AST POSITION...15.8 N... 55.8 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...WEST TO WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 18 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS...150 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 939 MB.

AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER AT 2 AM AST FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 5 AM
AST...SUNDAY.

[HURAKAN]

This track from UNISYS doesn't show Georges as a Cat. 5 hurricane, but as a Cat. 4.
You can check Georges' Storm Log in the link below:
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.dat



Amazing:

[*StOrmsPr*]

Yea i saw that Hurakan . its a mistake ,in the front page they have it as a cat 4 and in Best Track as a cat 5!



Best trak

[Anonymous]

PR still got slammmed. Just ask Cycloneye.

[Brent]

PR still got slammmed. Just ask Cycloneye.

Could have been a lot worse. It was a Strong Category 2 when it hit there. Had it hit as a Category 4, it would have been a catastrophe. The U.S. coastline was also lucky... Category 2 at the MS landfall and the passing just south of the Florida Keys.

[*StOrmsPr*]

PR still got slammmed. Just ask Cycloneye.

Could have been a lot worse. It was a Strong Category 2 when it hit there. Had it hit as a Category 4, it would have been a catastrophe. The U.S. coastline was also lucky... Category 2 at the MS landfall and the passing just south of the Florida Keys.

actually it was cat 3. it went from cat 2 to cat 3 (115 mph) just e few hours before landfall on the southeast coast. just righ were a i live!

[*StOrmsPr*]

PR still got slammmed. Just ask Cycloneye.

i now the eye passed right over my house! i was without electricity for almost 2 months or so!!

[wxman57]

NHC/TPC:
20/0600 16.0 56.3 937 135 knots Minimum Pressure

135 x 1.152 = 155.52 = 156 mph

> 155 mph = Cat 5 so 135 kts would be a Cat 5.

7 Hurricane GEORGES 15 SEP- 1 OCT 135 937 5

However, the Saffir-Simpson scale ALSO says >135 kts for Cat 5. 156 mph is greater than 155 mph but 135kts is not greater than the 135kt maximum of a Cat 4. So it all depends on whether that 135 kts was rounded up to 135 or down to 135, I suppose.

[*StOrmsPr*]

NHC/TPC:
20/0600 16.0 56.3 937 135 knots Minimum Pressure

135 x 1.152 = 155.52 = 156 mph

> 155 mph = Cat 5 so 135 kts would be a Cat 5.

7 Hurricane GEORGES 15 SEP- 1 OCT 135 937 5

However, the Saffir-Simpson scale ALSO says >135 kts for Cat 5. 156 mph is greater than 155 mph but 135kts is not greater than the 135kt maximum of a Cat 4. So it all depends on whether that 135 kts was rounded up to 135 or down to 135, I suppose.

i see! the problem (if is there one) LOL is that they (unisys) have Georges as 130kt (thus cat 4)on the front page and a 135kt( thus cat 5) on the best track.

i think that considering they(NHC) use 5mph intervals for intensity a cat 5 would need to be more in between 156.5-159 to be round up to 160mph( cat 5)
so is more likely 155.52 would be rounded to 155mph(cat 4).But dont know for sure!