Hurricane Preparedness in Fort Bend County
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Hurricane Preparedness in Fort Bend County
- 1. Hurricane Ike Review/Outlook for 2010 Looking Back at Ike Dan Reilly National Weather Service Houston/Galveston
- 3. Oil Spill Update: May 21st, 2010 http://response.restoration.noaa.gov June 1 st , 2010
- 5. Tropical Cyclone Hazards Storm Surge Tornadoes Flooding Damaging Winds
- 6. Hurricane Threats STORM SURGE – The abnormal rise in water level directly associated with the wind and pressure forces associated with a hurricane Storm Surge Example – hurricane makes landfall at high tide Storm Surge is highest in right forward quadrant near center as it crosses coast
- 7. Hurricane Threats Maximum storm surge and wind occur in right forward quadrant , near where center crosses the coast
- 9. Radar loop for Ike
- 11. Early Rise Trapped some on Bolivar, Galveston Island
- 13. Hurricane Ike: Bolivar Peninsula Devastation Image courtesy of www.hawkeyemedia.com/bolivar/
- 17. Tropical Storm Allison June 2001 Looped Over SE Texas; 36.99 inches of rain Port of Houston
- 18. Tropical Storm Claudette July 1979. Looped Over SE Texas; 43 inches of rain measured in Alvin over 24 hours (record)
- 19. Atlantic Basin Season Season: June 1 – November 30 Systems originate: Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean
- 22. Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index (ACE) Measure of Tropical Cyclone activity: Sum of the square of the maximum wind speed of all storms at least Tropical Storm strength every 6 hours
- 25. Least active season 1983 (4 named storms!)
- 27. Now officially adopted: just a wind rating without reference to surge, central pressure New Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale Category 1-min. Sustained Winds (mph) Storm Examples Wind Impacts 1 74 - 95 Jerry 1989 Very dangerous; will produce Claudette 2003 some damage Humberto 2007 2 96 - 110 Georges 1998 Ike 2008 Extremely dangerous; will produce extensive damage 3 111 - 130 Alicia 1983 Devastating damage Katrina 2005 Rita 2005 4 131 - 155 1900 - Galveston Catastrophic damage Carla 1961 5 > 156 Labor Day 1935 Catastrophic damage Camille 1969 Andrew 1992