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Aug 30, 2018 · After traveling more than 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, Irma made its last landfall as a formidable Category 3 storm in southwest Florida (at Marco Island) on September 10. How data helped the forecast.
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This national depiction of storm surge flooding vulnerability helps people living inhurricane-prone coastal areas. These maps make it clear that storm surge is not just a beachfront problem, with the risk of storm surge extending many miles inland from the immediate coastline in some areas. Storm Surge Risk Maps are provided for the U.S. Gulf and E...
Reprocessed U.S. Gulf and East Coast with latest SLOSH grids in 2021 and at an improved grid cell sizeAddition of Southern California, Guam, American Samoa, and Yucatan Peninsula MapsThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), specifically the National Weather Service's (NWS) National Hurricane Center (NHC), utilizes the hydrodynamic Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) model to simulate storm surge from tropical cyclones. Storm surge information is provided to federal, state, and local partner...
Storm surge risk maps are available for Texas to Maine, Puerto Rico, USVI, Hawaii, Southern California, Guam, American Samoa, Hispaniola, and the Yucatan Peninsula. The data are available in GeoTIFF (https://www.ogc.org/standards/geotiff/) format for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Comprehensive metadata are provided with each...
The first version of the SLOSH storm surge hazard maps, released in November 2014,was published in the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journal of Weather, Climate andSociety, titled "A National View of Storm Surge Risk and Inundation".The publication is available online at http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00049.1and the p...
Sep 9, 2022 · While Irma did undergo a rapid weakening trend through September 10, the extent of tropical storm-force winds was quite large, extending more than 400 miles from the center. By September 11, Irma weakened to a tropical storm just west of Gainesville, Florida.
Sep 9, 2022 · By September 11, Irma weakened to a tropical storm just west of Gainesville, Florida. As it continued northwestward into Alabama, Irma became a remnant low before eventually dissipating...
Sep 10, 2017 · At a Glance. The worst of Irma is now pounding north Florida. Storm surge, destructive winds, rainfall flooding, even tornadoes are possible. These impacts will spread north into parts of...
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Interaction with land caused Irma to weaken from a Category 5 to a Category 3 before it began to pull away from the northern coast of Cuba late Saturday afternoon. On Sunday morning, September 10 th, Irma strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane as it accelerated toward the Florida Keys.