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jcarroll01
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Hurricane free zone?
      #76664 - Fri Aug 17 2007 11:03 AM

Is there an area in the Hurricane activity area that has never been hit by a hurricane? some anomoly area that has never seen a direct hit due to some quirk or condition?

Just curious if anyone has just looked at every path since they are available and said...Wow....Hurricanes just never go there.

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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: jcarroll01]
      #76678 - Fri Aug 17 2007 12:47 PM

I'd say probably not, judging by this graphic



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GlenJohnson
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: Clark]
      #76693 - Fri Aug 17 2007 02:05 PM

That doesn't make me feel good. Picked the area between Gainesville and Jacksonville for the lack of Hurricanes.

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jcarroll01
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: Clark]
      #76701 - Fri Aug 17 2007 02:43 PM

Cool. What is the source page for that graphic? I'd like to narrow it down little by little to see if I get something interesting by only going back 75 years or so.

Hurricanes cut such a wide swath that it would have to be a pretty significant "hole"....curious.

and thanks for the graphic....

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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: jcarroll01]
      #76714 - Fri Aug 17 2007 03:36 PM

I just pulled the image from a NOAA website after doing a Google image search for it. There are probably sites where you can create those sorts of images yourself, but I don't have the addresses on hand right now.

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earthquake
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: jcarroll01]
      #76715 - Fri Aug 17 2007 03:42 PM

If my memory serves me correctly., I don't think the Houston/Galveston area has taken a hit in a long time.

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ltpat228
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: earthquake]
      #76769 - Fri Aug 17 2007 08:44 PM

Quote:

If my memory serves me correctly., I don't think the Houston/Galveston area has taken a hit in a long time.






Last hit was in 1943:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/hurr_1943.htm


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carolt
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: jcarroll01]
      #76880 - Sat Aug 18 2007 09:59 AM

This site narrows it down a bit:
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: GlenJohnson]
      #76907 - Sat Aug 18 2007 12:30 PM

Quote:

That doesn't make me feel good. Picked the area between Gainesville and Jacksonville for the lack of Hurricanes.




I've lived in Florida for 20 years and the Jacksonville area has pretty much been spared during that time, as has the south coast of Georgia. I'm not sure if that's just good luck or if there's a climatological explanation for it. Perhaps those more knowledgeable about the science of tropical weather than I am can shed some light.

Edited by saluki (Sat Aug 18 2007 12:32 PM)


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cjzydeco
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: saluki]
      #76913 - Sat Aug 18 2007 01:04 PM

The area north of Jacksonville and south of Cape Romain, SC, is known as the South Atlantic Bight. Here is a quote from "The Natural History of Georgia's Barrier Islands" by Taylor Schoettle. It helps to explain why this geophysical area has a lower potential for hurricane strikes.

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Georgia's barrier islands are actually the midsection of a system of oak-shrouded, sandy barriers that extend from the middle of the South Carolina coast to the mouth of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. Georgia is the most westward location of the Atlantic seaboard, placing its barrier islands in the approximate center of the inward-curving coastline known as the South Atlantic Bight and 60 to 70 miles from the edge of the continental shelf (continental slope).

This position of the barrier islands relative to the South Atlantic Bight affects Georgia's tides, waves, and incidences with hurricanes. As oceanic tides, having an average range of 2 to 3 feet, funnel into the bight, the water piles up on itself, creating an elevated tidal range of 6 to 9 feet and making Georgia's tides the highest of the Atlantic seaboard south of New York. The shallow slope of the continental shelf, averaging about 2 feet per mile, dissipates the energy of the large waves coming in from the open ocean. Waves move across the broad, shallow shelf waters and lose energy as they drag along the bottom and break over the many offshore shoals before arriving on beaches. Since the Gulf Stream, in its wandering way, basically follows along the edge of the continental slope, Georgia's shores are also remote from the Gulf Stream. Hurricanes that approach our shores from the Atlantic tend to veer northward as they follow the warm air over the Gulf Stream, frequently causing them to miss our small 100-mile-long shoreline and make landfall farther north or go out to sea.




I also seem to remember from my meteorology course at CofC that there is a transition between global wind belts that affects this area as well. The subtropical high pressure belt is located right around 30N (the latitude of Jacksonville). North of there, the prevailing westerlies tend to help bend storms back to the east. The real mets probably have a better grasp on this than I, and I may be way off base.

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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: jcarroll01]
      #77944 - Tue Sep 04 2007 11:02 PM

Another good location for searching historical hurricane tracks can be found at the NOAA Coastal Services Center website . Short answer, there may be quiet periods where certain regions experience an absence in tropical activity, but IMHO there are no 'hurricane free zones'.

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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: ltpat228]
      #77945 - Tue Sep 04 2007 11:46 PM

Houston/Galveston was hit in 1983 by Hurricane Alicia.

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neospaceblue
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: Beaumont, TX]
      #78079 - Sat Sep 08 2007 10:29 PM

Jacksonville was only hit by Hurricane Dora in 1964 and that was it.

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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: neospaceblue]
      #80430 - Sun Jul 13 2008 09:36 AM

Hi all !!!
First post here , I'm a 22 years old fanatic of weathers and everything related to it.
I live in Montreal so I'm a french speaker first but i'll try to use a good english for the forums.
4 or 5 years ago , I went to Oklahoma or a city close to it , not sure , and in 5 days I was ''lucky'' enough to see 2 tornadoes in front of my eyes.My cousin was going to have an heart attack but not me , I was pretty excited to say the least.I think I have the ''Storm Chaser'' in me .I'm actually working on it and want to make some beautiful videos and pics but that's not for today.
Sorry to do my presentation in this thread but I wanted to know , by looking at the picture , if an hurricane could really hit Montreal? Really curious as I thought it was ''impossible'' even if I dont like this word.

Can someone help me , cause I think I see a black lign in the picture hitting Montreal.


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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: ltpat228]
      #85073 - Sun Sep 14 2008 11:14 AM

The Houston / Galveston area was hit by Hurricane Alicia in 1983.

This was already posted above. Please read carefully prior to posting.

Edited by Storm Cooper (Sun Sep 14 2008 03:28 PM)


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LoisCane
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Re: Hurricane free zone? [Re: ltpat228]
      #85081 - Mon Sep 15 2008 10:01 AM

Excellent read, written by Bill Read the now director of the NHC... thanks for posting it.

Not only was it a surprise but it is rarely referred to or referenced as if it never happened.

More the forgotten hurricane... found it doing research the other day and I realized I too forgot about the
serious WW2 Cane.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/hurr_1943.htm

Concern over shipping and politics and perception of our strength during war time kept publicity minimal. Also, newspaper accounts before it hit have gone down in history with inacurrate accounts.

Interesting paragraph:

"If it had crossed over the island instead of the Bolivar Peninsula, a large storm surge would have been pushed into the Bay area causing possibly a large loss of life, due to the lack of warning. People living along the northern and western shore of Galveston Bay would have been trapped to face the pounding waves and rising seas on land as low as five feet above sea level in many places. Compared with the damage that was done, who knows how bad the destruction and loss of live would have been."

Re: Alicia and the damage that downtown received... they seem to have received similar damage this time so what if anything was learned from Alicia that was not applied. And, did "hurricane glass" in newer building stand up? Do they use it there as they do in Miami.. I am wondering.

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