Alicia 1983, & the Gulf now...

[TexasSam]

If I remember right Alicia formed quickly on the tail end of a old cold front that made it into the Gulf. I was just looking at the Sat. pic's and the Gulf looks much like it did in 1983. Alicia went from nothing to a hurrican in what seemd like a few hours....

[HURAKAN]

Date: 15-21 AUG 1983
Hurricane ALICIA
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
1 27.30 -90.50 08/15/12Z 30 1009 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
2 27.20 -91.00 08/15/18Z 40 1006 TROPICAL STORM
3 27.10 -91.50 08/16/00Z 45 1005 TROPICAL STORM
4 27.00 -92.00 08/16/06Z 50 1004 TROPICAL STORM
5 27.10 -92.40 08/16/12Z 55 1002 TROPICAL STORM
6 27.30 -92.80 08/16/18Z 60 998 TROPICAL STORM
7 27.40 -93.30 08/17/00Z 65 991 HURRICANE-1
8 27.70 -93.70 08/17/06Z 70 987 HURRICANE-1
9 27.90 -94.20 08/17/12Z 75 983 HURRICANE-1
10 28.10 -94.50 08/17/18Z 90 974 HURRICANE-2
11 28.40 -94.80 08/18/00Z 95 969 HURRICANE-2
12 28.90 -95.00 08/18/06Z 100 963 HURRICANE-3
13 29.70 -95.50 08/18/12Z 80 965 HURRICANE-1
14 30.50 -96.00 08/18/18Z 40 990 TROPICAL STORM
15 31.50 -96.70 08/19/00Z 35 998 TROPICAL STORM
16 32.40 -97.40 08/19/06Z 30 1003 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
17 33.30 -98.00 08/19/12Z 25 1006 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
18 34.40 -98.50 08/19/18Z 25 1009 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
19 35.40 -99.00 08/20/00Z 20 1010 TROPICAL DEPRESSION

I wouldn't say that Alicia had an explosive intensification phase, I would say that Alicia was able to use its slow movement over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to its favor.

[TexasSam]

This is a link to a post by Rainydaze:
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=33501

[Stormcenter]

Does anyone have satellite images of
Alicia they would so kind enough to post?

[TexasSam]

[HURAKAN]