Wanna-Be-Storm-Chaser
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On the radar, does it look like it is trying to form a new center of rotation just sw of the original one? I could be wrong...............
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Edited by Wanna-Be-Storm-Chaser (Thu Sep 08 2005 02:58 PM)
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THAT WAS A GOOD DISCUSSION...CONSISTENT WITH SOME THINGS SAID HERE THIS MORNING.
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My guess would be that what you see is a sign of intensification and a closing off of the COC witrh convection. If it can maintain that structure the storm can now deepen a bit. Previous presentation suggested dry air into the center open on the north and east at times. The location of that COC seems to be a bit SW of the previous interpolated center in my opinion.
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One nice thing about having a stationary, developing tropical cyclone within radar range is that you can watch the thing evolve from a depression to potentially a hurricane on the radar, which is an evolution that we normally don't get to see. Now if it would just head out to sea after giving us this nice lesson.
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very nice RSO
Ophelia
looking at the outflow..... looks alot better this afternoon than this morning... would expect winds to be up in the 5pm adv... and near a hurricane (70-75mph) tonight at 11pm.
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Makes a nice presentation in the latest few visual frames ...could be near H1 now.
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on
AF300 0616A OPHELIA OB 07
SUPPLEMENTARY VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
on outbound leg
MF283 M0793 MF067
67kts.... at flight level!
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Wanna-Be-Storm-Chaser
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Quote:
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AF300 0616A OPHELIA OB 07
SUPPLEMENTARY VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
on outbound leg
MF283 M0793 MF067
67kts.... at flight level!
How do you converts kts to mph?
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77.1022 mph
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I wasn't overyly concerned about Ophelia until today. To me, being the novice weather watcher that I am, would think that the longer she stays over open water, the stronger she's going to get. Can someone dampen my fear a little bit that she's not going to strengthen TOO MUCH? , and Jeanne scared the you know what out of me last year and we're 50 miles inland, pretty much due east of the Cape. We lost our roof between Francis and Jeanne. I really don't want to have to experience that again. Is there any reason she won't strengthen past a Cat 1? Please tell me there is...........
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of course I meant due WEST of the Cape..... see what this stress is doing to me?
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Multiply by 1.15. For example, 65 knots x 1.15=74.75 mph. 100 knots x 1.15=115 mph.
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Multiply knots by 1.15 to get the mph and then multiply by 0.9 to get the surface winds in mph. Basically the flight level winds in knots roughly correspond to the surface winds in mph. So 67 knots at flight level would be 77 mph. Since typically surface winds are 90% of the flight level winds, you get 69 mph at the surface. Someone correct me if I am wrong here....
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Well most all of the global models 12Z runs anyway take it into the fl ga border area after a loop...per the ukmet and gdfl.
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Thanks to all of the answers!
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I believe that when they are flying at the 850mb level, as they have been so far with Ophelia, they use a 20% reduction in flight-level winds, so you would take the flight-level winds and multiply by 0.8 to get the estimated surface winds. When they are flying at the 700 mb level, they use a 10% reduction, so you would multiply by 0.9.
Those estimates may not be used if there is other evidence of the max surface winds. In this case, they can look at radar data as well to estimate the wind field.
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well almost a cane now
URNT12 KNHC 082001
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 08/19:43:50Z
B. 28 deg 34 min N
079 deg 27 min W
C. 850 mb 1316 m
D. 70 kt
E. 42 deg 015 nm
F. 130 deg 066 kt
G. 041 deg 012 nm
H. 985 mb
I. 19 C/ 1534 m
J. 24 C/ 1528 m
K. 24 C/ NA
L. OPEN NE
M. C15
N. 12345/ 8
O. 0.02 / 2 nm
P. AF300 0616A OPHELIA OB 09
MAX FL WIND 66 KT NE QUAD 19:40:00 Z MAX FL TEMP 25 C, 36 / 6NM
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Estimated surface winds of 70 knots? That would be 80 mph and would make it a hurricane. We'll see at 5:00 I guess.
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If the eyeballed wind estimate of 70 knots is accurate, it already is a hurricane, though it seems they usually don't seem to put a lot of weight on those wind estimates. I don't think they have sampled the SW quadrant of the storm yet, so it will be interesting to see if they can find stronger winds at flight-level.
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Wanna-Be-Storm-Chaser
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Wouldn't it be a little over 72 mph?
70kts x 1.15 x 0.9
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