Where there any reports of 100+ sustained winds in Florida?

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Where there any reports of 100+ sustained winds in Florida?

#1 Postby Thunder44 » Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:12 am

I wonder if this storm was really a Cat 2 when it made landfall. Post here if you find any. Thank you.
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Re: Where there any reports of 100+ sustained winds in Flori

#2 Postby LadyStorm » Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:17 am

I have been listening to a news feed all night, and the highest I have heard so far from West Palm was 89 mph.


Thunder44 wrote:I wonder if this storm was as really a Cat 2 when it made landfall. Post here if you find any. Thank you.
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Re: Where there any reports of 100+ sustained winds in Flori

#3 Postby LadyStorm » Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:17 am

I have been listening to a news feed all night, and the highest I have heard so far from West Palm was 89 mph.


Thunder44 wrote:I wonder if this storm was as really a Cat 2 when it made landfall. Post here if you find any. Thank you.
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Re: Where there any reports of 100+ sustained winds in Flori

#4 Postby Ixolib » Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:30 am

LadyStorm wrote:I have been listening to a news feed all night, and the highest I have heard so far from West Palm was 89 mph.


Thunder44 wrote:I wonder if this storm was as really a Cat 2 when it made landfall. Post here if you find any. Thank you.


Just heard 94 at the Cape...
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#5 Postby Florida_brit » Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:17 am

Frances is unravelling however, winds are expcexted to increase temporarily around the northern eye wall....watch out Orlando suspected 90mph winds predicted in the next 3 hours!

Tornados forcasted for sunday afternoon Florida time as the air heats up. No locations mentioned so far.
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#6 Postby baygirl_1 » Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:36 am

Last night, right around landfall at 1AM, Anderson Cooper and Chad Myers on CNN were reporting like 90 MPH sustained in Melbourne with one gust of 121! That amazed those of us on here at the time who saw that report.
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#7 Postby tropicana » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:20 am

and quite recent a 124mph gust at Cape canaveral.

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#8 Postby Thunder44 » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:22 am

tropicana wrote:and quite recent a 124mph gust at Cape canaveral.

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Yeah, I saw that, but is there anything sustained? Though, I think with a wind gust like that sustained winds may be near 100mph. TPC has the storm at 90mph now.
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#9 Postby seahawkjd » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:24 am

Also remember you have winds slowing due to friction over land. You hardly ever have exactly the same amount of wind it had over water when it makes landfall.
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124 in Port Canaveral, on coast, due east of Orlando

#10 Postby otowntiger » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:35 am

This according to TWC and local station. Here in ORlando now pretty gusty, airport reports gusts to over 60. Not yet as bad as Charley, don't expect it to be, but will last a lot longer for sure.
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#11 Postby Brent » Sun Sep 05, 2004 8:39 am

There had to be Cat 2 sustained winds with this Cat 3 gusts.
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#12 Postby PurdueWx80 » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:08 am

If you look at the surface chart over FL, a lot of stations aren't reporting. If 4 million customers are w/o power, you have to imagine that some of the anemometers near the eywall (which experienced hurricane conditions for MANY hours) probably didn't have power at the time of passage.
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