Hurricane_Charley_Eye_Wall_part2

Hurricane_Charley_Eye_Wall_part2

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• Charley
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[Zima4184]

As many as odd that the lantern is held

[TheBucksco18966]

An empty parking lot is not the most interesting place to watch.

[clubpenguineverywere]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooow

[cape6000jkg]

You were just fortunate that it was only a weak borderline EF2 tornado at your location. Upper-end EF2, and EF3 risks collapsing buildings. EF3 speeds begin around 160 mph. If you were close to the building those speeds could have collapsed the building on you. If you were farther downwind when it collapesed, you would have been cut to pieces by wind-blown roof debris. Most tornado-caused injuries are from flying debris. Moat deaths are from head injuries. I wouldn't get near a building.

[cape6000jkg]

Keep in mind that a hurricane is a type or single-cell convective mesocyclone, a yery wide type of tropical supercell thunderstorm. Not too much on hail but very efficient at tranlsational rotation. It is basically a large type of tornado. They have multiple vortices in their eyewalls as do typical tornadoes(see Andrew's landfall in Florida). They can explosively intensify over hot pockets of shallow coastal/swamp water too(Celia 1970 in Texas, Rita 2005 Louisiana, stronger winds inland).

[cape6000jkg]

There are a few videos out there of charley's landfall area that appear to have peak gusst approaching about 130-140 mph, but yours as I described in an earlier post, appears to be no more than 115-120 mph. Also, ground-level winds in hurricanes weaken during landfall much faster than the pressure rises, because winds above the surface are stiil strong. And as I stated in an earlier post charley began an eyewall replacement cycle during landfall that further sped up weakening.

[WeatherWarriordotnet]

@mst3kpimp Hurricane Charley was an extremely compact storm, one reason why the rapid intensification was easier to occur. Had this been a larger storm, the damage would have be crazy. I'm actually glad for the residents it wasn't larger. I like intercepting hurricanes and all, but the death, loss of property, etc. is no fun to watch either. I'm glad you were spared.

[WeatherWarriordotnet]

@peakman2006 I can't necessarily confirm or deny that the winds were at that level because we didn't officially measure them. Only that I've been in multiple hurricanes and experienced what was officially recorded at 100 to 110 mph (by my own hand/instrument measure) and this was way more intense.

Don't just consider the near field of this image, but in the documentary we produced, just blocks over you can see complete roofs being blown of buildings and complete structural failure of others.

[WeatherWarriordotnet]

@cape6000jkg

Immediately that close, yes, I quess they were not that at the "max" however, just to the right of the building is Charlotte Bay, which is nearly obstruction free. At certain times the winds were coming right off the water, and still could have been near the 145+mph peak levels. I can't not confirm anything with true data except for air pressure (which was instrument recorded) because we were not about to stand out there with an anemometer...LOL.

[mst3kpimp]

i'm in venice fl just 30 min west of pt charlotte and on the morning of Charlie i spent the day bringing heavy items inside the house in preperation. after i did i was so tired i fell asleep and when i awoke the storm had come and gone. it basically missed us entirely. just goes to show how you can be in the wrong place at the wrong time