What's the Impact on Lake Okeechobee??

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What's the Impact on Lake Okeechobee??

#1 Postby Ixolib » Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:52 pm

Looks like anyone on the southeast end of the lake is gonna get it soon. Will lake surge (?) be a problem for them?

http://radar.weather.gov/radar/loop/DS.p20-r/si.kamx.shtml
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#2 Postby Derek Ortt » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:39 pm

about 10 to 15 feet of surge, probably

lucikly, this didnt intensify as it was expected to do throughout the day
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#3 Postby Sanibel » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:42 pm

Dry air, cool air, and a similar condition to Frances leveled Jeanne off in almost identical fashion.


I'm watching local new reports from Okeechobee. Picking up there with 35mph sustained. Reporter said it is getting worse by the minute. Heavy bands moving in from the north. He was on a pier on the south side of the lake with no surge so far.

Local emergency manager said this clip is stronger than Frances.
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#4 Postby Ixolib » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:48 pm

Sanibel wrote:Dry air, cool air, and a similar condition to Frances leveled Jeanne off in almost identical fashion.


I'm watching local new reports from Okeechobee. Picking up there with 35mph sustained. Reporter said it is getting worse by the minute. Heavy bands moving in from the north. He was on a pier on the south side of the lake with no surge so far.

Local emergency manager said this clip is stronger than Frances.


Is it a fact that the Lake itself will contain it's water within their levee system? Or, might the potential surge cause flooding in neighborhoods south of the Lake?
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#5 Postby Sanibel » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:54 pm

I think they said they had 20 feet of levee to spare with maybe an 8 foot surge expected at most...
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#6 Postby Sanibel » Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:58 pm

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Radar picking up several tornadoes in Okeechobee area...
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#7 Postby Pebbles » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:09 am

Looks like the eyewall is going over the lake now....wondering what effect that is going to have. Know earlier they were not expecting the eye over it or the increased (though slightly) of the hurricane.
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#8 Postby Houstonia » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:22 am

104 mph wind gust reported by SoFl (as reported by CBS channel 4 out of Florida).
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#9 Postby Sanibel » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:28 am

It will boost the surge on the SE shore of the lake. There are shelters over the levee there...
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#10 Postby weatherlover427 » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:46 am

It did strengthen to 120 MPH and the pressure did lower to 947 MB just as it made land fall. So in reality, this storm did strengthen during landfall, but thankfully not as much as Charley did.
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#11 Postby Chilly_Water » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:51 am

I knew it remembered it from somewhere:
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... ight=levee
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#12 Postby Lockhart » Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:47 am

Good Heavens, Joshua21Young. You've been here since Feb. 10, 1993. That's about 600 days. You have 20,270 posts! That's more than 33 posts per day, every day, for 1 1/2 years. If you were logged on for eight hours a day, every day, for 1 1/2 years, that's more than one post every 15 minutes. Yikes!
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#13 Postby yoda » Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:49 am

Lockhart wrote:Good Heavens, Joshua21Young. You've been here since Feb. 10, 1993. That's about 600 days. You have 20,270 posts! That's more than 33 posts per day, every day, for 1 1/2 years. If you were logged on for eight hours a day, every day, for 1 1/2 years, that's more than one post every 15 minutes. Yikes!


2003 you mean... :P
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