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Weather Discussion => Hazardous Weather => Hurricane Central => Topic started by: toxictwister00 on September 01, 2016, 03:03:27 PM

Title: Hurricane Hermine
Post by: toxictwister00 on September 01, 2016, 03:03:27 PM
Within the past few minutes the NHC upgraded Hermine from a tropical storm to a 75mph Category One hurricane.
It should be making landfall on the FL panhandle within the next several hours.

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WTNT64 KNHC 011854
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HURRICANE HERMINE TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL       AL092016
155 PM CDT THU SEP 01 2016

...DATA FROM AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT
HERMINE HAS STRENGTHENED TO A HURRICANE...

Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate
that maximum sustained winds in Hermine have increased to near 75
mph (120 km/h).  Based on these data, Hermine is now upgraded to a
hurricane, the fourth hurricane of 2016 in the Atlantic basin.


SUMMARY OF 155 PM CDT...1855 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...28.1N 85.4W
ABOUT 115 MI...180 KM SSW OF APALACHICOLA FLORIDA
ABOUT 175 MI...285 KM W OF TAMPA FLORIDA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...75 MPH...120 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 30 DEGREES AT 14 MPH...22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...988 MB...29.18 INCHES

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Forecaster Brennan/Pasch
Title: Re: Hurricane Hermine
Post by: toxictwister00 on September 01, 2016, 03:06:38 PM
Visible Satellite View of Hermine

(http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/09L/imagery/vis-animated.gif)