Hurricane on the Great Lakes

[jimvb]

There is a lot of water on the Great Lakes, so I wonder if a hurricane can develop on them. The problem is that the water is too cold. But didn't that happen yesterday? When the storm came in from the Plains into the Great Lakes, it developed a spiral structure and dangled a long squall line to the southwest, making it look like a comma. I call this line a "tornado tornado", because it looks like a tornado on the radar, dangling from the clouds over the Great Lakes, and because it had the potential to develop tornadoes, as was seen in southern Indiana.

Now normally I see tornado tornados dangling only from hurricanes that have landed, so was this storm a hurricane? Call it Gamma?

[gatorcane]

won't happen in the Great Lakes for these two main reasons:

1) water temps below the minimum 78F threshold
2) Atmospheric conditions are usually too hostile (e.g. the upper-level
winds are too strong)

[Hurricanehink]

http://www.whyy.org/tv12/franklinfacts/sep1202ff.html

Hurricane Huron in 1996. It's debatable, but probably the closest to what you want.

[wxwatcher91]

precip was wrapped tight around the low this morning and I swear it looked like a large eye on the radar

[wxwatcher91]

http://www.whyy.org/tv12/franklinfacts/sep1202ff.html

Hurricane Huron in 1996. It's debatable, but probably the closest to what you want.

do you know where I could find satellite images and/or radar images of the storm??

[Hurricanehink]

http://www.whyy.org/tv12/franklinfacts/sep1202_2.gif
Loop of storm

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/t/j ... urhur.jpeg
Storm near its peak

[jasons2k]

There is a lot of water on the Great Lakes, so I wonder if a hurricane can develop on them.

I believe there is an identical thread on this a few months back, there may be some information there if you do a search.