(Weather Master)

Sun Aug 29 2004 07:23 AM

Re: HurricaneFran'96

According to the archives, Fran was packing maximum sustained winds of 100kts at landfall, which would put it at the lower end of CAT 3 status. Fran and Opal both made landfall with winds estimated at 100kts.

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