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Misc 2021 Spring/Summer Whamby Thread

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SD said:
Yep I bet Fran was 70-80 here center looks to have been maybe 10-15 miles away
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Center passed just west of here I think? Which means Zebulon would have been in the NE eye wall of it . Mmmmm ! I am shaded in the 70-90 peak gusts from Fran with places east being higher , so yeah the worst of it did pass . Mmmmm ! If only we get that but with a cat 5 instead , just imagine !
 
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Lickwx said:
100 is doable , 115 is unimaginable . Hazel had RDU gusting to 90 and Fayetteville to 110. @SD house easily gusted over 100 in that scenario ! 120s in Kinston and Goldsboro!
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I imagine if a cat 5 with 160 mph winds slammed into Myrtle Beach headed north at a fast speed that wind gusts well over 100 would be possible in Raleigh.
 
Or could you imagine a hurricane hitting Myrtle Beach with sustained winds of 200 mph headed north at a fast pace ? Raleigh might have sustained winds of at least 130 with gusts over 150 :eek:
 
Hurricane Opal may be the most exciting storm I've ever experienced. Had it not weakened before landfall the impacts would have been incredible. I will never forget Cantore saying "Atlanta this storm is yours too" or something like that. It gave me goosebumps.
 
Dewpoint Dan said:
Or could you imagine a hurricane hitting Myrtle Beach with sustained winds of 200 mph headed north at a fast pace ? Raleigh might have sustained winds of at least 130 with gusts over 150 :eek:
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Or can you imagine you not trolling ? I think a 200mph cane hitting myrtle beach is more likely than you ever stopping trolling .
 
The 1992-1996 period was epic from a weather standpoint in GA. The big snow in 1992, blizzard in 93, huge flooding from Alberto in 94, opal in 95, insane cold in 96. That 4 year period from Jan 92-Feb 96 will be hard to ever top.
 
Lickwx said:
Center passed just west of here I think? Which means Zebulon would have been in the NE eye wall of it . Mmmmm ! I am shaded in the 70-90 peak gusts from Fran with places east being higher , so yeah the worst of it did pass . Mmmmm ! If only we get that but with a cat 5 instead , just imagine !
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Fran is my #2 all time event. I'll never forget the sound of the wind that night and how things looked the next morning when the sun came up. My old neighbors in Knightdale showed me pictures the day after from that area and it looked like something you would see near the beaches. I personally hope we never get another like that but I feel like we will in the next 10-20 years the return period on something like that for our area seems to be 30-50 yrs
 
There was a hurricane that hit somewhere in the Carolinas in September 1999. I remember I was going to drive there and chase it but I got to Augusta and turned around.
 
Dewpoint Dan said:
Or could you imagine a hurricane hitting Myrtle Beach with sustained winds of 200 mph headed north at a fast pace ? Raleigh might have sustained winds of at least 130 with gusts over 150 :eek:
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Or imagine a hurricane hitting Myrtle Beach with sustained winds at 1000 mph headed north northwest at a fast clip. I bet wind speeds of 200 mph+ would be doable in Raleigh
 
SD said:
Fran is my #2 all time event. I'll never forget the sound of the wind that night and how things looked the next morning when the sun came up. My old neighbors in Knightdale showed me pictures the day after from that area and it looked like something you would see near the beaches. I personally hope we never get another like that but I feel like we will in the next 10-20 years the return period on something like that for our area seems to be 30-50 yrs
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Floyd and believe it or not Irene close 2nd and 3rd events for me, and no contrary to what @Lickwx will say I was not around for Hazel Lol. Floyd obviously the water, even here where it never floods (and we didn't flood) but every single creek came over top of the bridges, never seen that in my life, we drove around and could not go anywhere due to that. Next day it all had receded and of course headed down east to pile on the catastrophic flooding there. Winds weren't powerful, around 50-60 mph but due to all the rain, trees came down easily, in fact, wife and I watched a Pecan tree in our yard fall like slow motion, fortunately not on the house.

But Irene just from the duration of the event, max wind was only 60, but it had such an expansive wind field we dealt with those gust for over 12 hours. Many places around RR were without power for a week with that one.
 
Rain Cold said:
Or imagine a hurricane hitting Myrtle Beach with sustained winds at 1000 mph headed north northwest at a fast clip. I bet wind speeds of 200 mph+ would be doable in Raleigh
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Imagine this occurring late season and energy from an early season PV lobe dives into, transitions to an ET system, with winds of 200 mph plus rain changing to snow and drifts 15' tall.
 
metwannabe said:
Floyd and believe it or not Irene close 2nd and 3rd events for me, and no contrary to what @Lickwx will say I was not around for Hazel Lol. Floyd obviously the water, even here where it never floods (and we didn't flood) but every single creek came over top of the bridges, never seen that in my life, we drove around and could not go anywhere due to that. Next day it all had receded and of course headed down east to pile on the catastrophic flooding there. Winds weren't powerful, around 50-60 mph but due to all the rain, trees came down easily, in fact, wife and I watched a Pecan tree in our yard fall like slow motion, fortunately not on the house.

But Irene just from the duration of the event, max wind was only 60, but it had such an expansive wind field we dealt with those gust for over 12 hours. Many places around RR were without power for a week with that one.
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We slept downstairs for Floyd I remember young weenie SD thinking it was a fail bc nothing happened imby until I saw the news. What was Isabel like for you? I was still in sanford and it was fairly impressive.
 
SD said:
We slept downstairs for Floyd I remember young weenie SD thinking it was a fail bc nothing happened imby until I saw the news. What was Isabel like for you? I was still in sanford and it was fairly impressive.
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Isabel your standard run of the mill tropical system here lol, some decent rain and strong enough winds to take down a few trees mainly around creek beds where the ground was softer, but really not bad at all. However, weenie adult metwannabe, decides to drive out in it to see conditions and couldn't come back home same way I left because a tree had fallen across the road. I was almost a statistic.

Btw, I remember being disappointed when I got up on the morning of Sept. 23, 1989 and the sun was shining...... then saw the damage in SC and Charlotte
 
You inland boys and your cute memories. One storm in FL, we sat on a friends porch at their parents house. It was Only a Cat1, but through the trees was a trailor park with plenty of Diretv and dishet dishes. We were playing a drinking game of if you guess which sat. dish went next, and were wrong, you had to drink a shot. Everyone chugged a beer when a the whole trailor would go.
 
SD said:
Fran is my #2 all time event. I'll never forget the sound of the wind that night and how things looked the next morning when the sun came up. My old neighbors in Knightdale showed me pictures the day after from that area and it looked like something you would see near the beaches. I personally hope we never get another like that but I feel like we will in the next 10-20 years the return period on something like that for our area seems to be 30-50 yrs
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I was in Durham for Fran. Remember staying up all night listening to the wind and trees breaking all around me. The next morning it looked like a war zone with trees everywhere. My parents had a large tree that fell in their backyard and barely missed hitting the camper they had at the time. Crazy thing is a few years later a pine tree snapped on a regular windy day and the top half fell on the camper.
 
Still think this should have been a ef-4 I saw the damage firsthand. And it was incredible
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SD said:
Fran is my #2 all time event. I'll never forget the sound of the wind that night and how things looked the next morning when the sun came up. My old neighbors in Knightdale showed me pictures the day after from that area and it looked like something you would see near the beaches. I personally hope we never get another like that but I feel like we will in the next 10-20 years the return period on something like that for our area seems to be 30-50 yrs
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Yeah, essentially all it comes down to is getting a major hurricane to landfall and track north. The climo track for storms anyways would be favorable , it just takes a strong enough storm which we haven’t gotten since Fran. Florence looked like it was going to be the one , 24 hours out we had a major cane on our doorstep doing the perfect track , then it did all those ERCs , ingested dry air , and wandered south as steering currents collapsed . Heartbreak.
 
Lickwx said:
Yeah, essentially all it comes down to is getting a major hurricane to landfall and track north. The climo track for storms anyways would be favorable , it just takes a strong enough storm which we haven’t gotten since Fran. Florence looked like it was going to be the one , 24 hours out we had a major cane on our doorstep doing the perfect track , then it did all those ERCs , ingested dry air , and wandered south as steering currents collapsed . Heartbreak.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe some of the early forecasts for floyd had the center well west pretty close to us and they were talking crazy high on the wind
 
SD said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe some of the early forecasts for floyd had the center well west pretty close to us and they were talking crazy high on the wind
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Yeah floyd was forecast to be further west. I think at one point it was supposed to make landfall in SC.
 
SD said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe some of the early forecasts for floyd had the center well west pretty close to us and they were talking crazy high on the wind
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I believe so, that was the one with the big evacuations in Florida and Georgia 24 hours out only for it to end up further east and weaker .
 
metwannabe said:
Isabel your standard run of the mill tropical system here lol, some decent rain and strong enough winds to take down a few trees mainly around creek beds where the ground was softer, but really not bad at all. However, weenie adult metwannabe, decides to drive out in it to see conditions and couldn't come back home same way I left because a tree had fallen across the road. I was almost a statistic.

Btw, I remember being disappointed when I got up on the morning of Sept. 23, 1989 and the sun was shining...... then saw the damage in SC and Charlotte
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Same here. Was hoping for a lot of rain with Hugo and we basically got some clouds and wind.
 
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