| Tornado In Pensacola, FL |
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A tornado touched down on Thursday, October
18th at 10 AM. There was a tornado warning
as we went to work, did not expect it to
touch down right by our office!
The tornado overturned cars, ripped a roof
off of a home and took out transformers.
Many streets are closed in our area.
Excuse the 'commentary', we were a bit
excited to see a tornado downtown, most of us
had never seen one.
Taken using my Casio EX-Z750.
Tags : Weather Tornado Pensacola Florida Downtown |
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Affichage : 112841
Durée : 200 s |
| Hurricane Opal - Fort Walton Beach, FL - October 4, 1995 |
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This is a sample of my Hurricane Opal chase
footage. This video was taken during Opal's
landfall in the western Florida panhandle, at
Fort Walton Beach, on October 4, 1995. A day
prior to landfall, Hurricane Opal had
strengthened rapidly to near Category Five
intensity, with sustained winds of 150mph and
a minimum central pressure of 916mb
(27.05in). During the following twelve hours
the storm steadily weakened, however, Opal
was still a very large and powerful Category
Three at landfall, with sustained winds of
125mph and a central pressure of 942mb
(27.82in). Hurricane conditions begin at
about 3min 30sec into the video and the
eyewall occurs from 4min 50sec through 7min
40sec in. Peak winds at my location were
sustained between 100-110mph with gusts to
140mph. The highest officially recorded
surface wind in Opal was a gust to 144mph at
Hurlburt Field, near Mary Esther, Florida, in
southwest Okaloosa county, which was three
miles west of my location. The highest storm
surge at my location was approximately 13ft
and with the ground elevation at 8-10ft above
sea-level, this resulted in a surge depth of
3-5ft, with higher waves. The peak surge and
maximum inundation occurs just prior to the
eye/calm at about 9min 40sec into the video.
Though the eastern edge of Opal's eye did
pass over my location, winds never fell below
20-30mph, I did record a minimum pressure of
960.3mb (28.36in) during this time.
Tags : Hurricane Opal Severe Weather Tropical Cyclone Typhoon Florida Hurricanes 1995 Extreme Wind Meteorology Storm Surge |
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Affichage : 28203
Durée : 737 s |
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