Great hurricane pics and radars thread

[Stormsfury]

I often joke about large things being "the size of Texas". Well Gilbert WAS actually the size of Texas. I should start describing things as "the size of Gilbert".

I think the tightest eye was '35 Labor Day at 8 miles. :o

Actually, Isobar, Gilbert's eye shrank down to only 5-6 miles before beginning an eyewall replacement cycle. (Saw this on a hurricane special when one of the Hurricane Hunters were flying in Gilbert) ... the pressure was adjusted to 888 mb ... but the original pressure extrapolated from the aircraft at its most intense time was 882 mb.

But the Labor Day '35 hurricane was one of the most compact hurricanes ever ... The smallest, though, worldwide, I believe was Cyclone Tracy which struck Darwin, Australia on Christmas Day, 1974. It's entire diameter was only 50 miles wide.

Typhoon Tip on the other hand (which has the lowest sea-level pressure ever recorded on Earth -- 870 mb --- in inches, I believe it was 25.70") and was the largest tropical cyclone of record ... 1100 miles across.

Hurricane Gilbert Satellite Pictures (From NCDC - Saved on my website)
Gilbert Infrared Image
Gilbert Visible Image from Louisiana State University
Gilbert Multispectral Image - Shows the tight eye around an incredible CDO - Central Dense Overcast

[isobar]

Thanks for the images and info, SF.
Amazing that a TC can actually be 50 mi or 1100 mi in diam. Pretty awesome.

[ColdFront77]

Exactly, Donna... storms as small as Andrew, didn't even give many clouds (only high thin cloudiness, I believe) to the central portion of (where I now live); while Gilbert took up the entire Bay of Campeche and its northeastern corner reached Miami!

[chadtm80]

Impending Doom



Picture taken Saturday August 20, 1994 at Gulf Shores, AL

[chadtm80]

satellite image of Isidore on Sunday, skimming the Yucatan coast

[Raininfyr]

Awesome pics! The one of Lili as a Cat 4 revives the memories of that night as the storm moved closer to us. We were shocked to see such a strong storm so close to land just fall apart. My pastor said the next Sunday after that it was a miracle, and I believe it was! Quite an experience!

[PTrackerLA]

It really was a miracle how Lili weakened so fast. I'll never forget the evening before when Lili was upgraded to a strong cat 4 with the possibility of reaching cat 5 strength and hearing that the storm surge could as far as a few miles from my home. It truly terrified me and we actually discussed the possibility of having to stay with our relatives in north Louisiana because of the devastation they were predicting in Lafayette. It would have probably been a once in a lifetime event but I'm very glad it never materialized.

[pojo]

Chad, I love those pics!!! The Beach Impending Goom is extremely awesome!

[vbhoutex]

Gilbert scared me more than any other hurricane in my life. That sucker (plus outflow) took up the entire Gulf of Mexico. Good thing Gilbert was one of those forward momentum storms, else whomever would have been its path after recurvature would have been in some deep stuff. Many of those other brought back memories. The eyewalls of Andrew Steve

ME TOO Steve!! It is the only storm that has ever had me seriously thinking about leaving Houston! Progs had him coming in right over us for a good while till he did the right thing and continued west.

[cycloneye]

This thread was way back buried but I am bumping it for the members that haved not seen all these hurricane pics that are indeed awesome ones so go and look at them at all this thread.If anyone has more pics of hurricanes you can post them here.

[Stormsfury]

How about this beauty ... Isabel 2003 at Peak Intensity...
More can be found @
http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Trop ... mages.html

[Hurricanehink]

Wow! Does anyone have a loop of the Parade of Storms, either 95's, 96's (there were 4 storms at once in August), or 98 (between Frances to Karl, possibly)? Those seasons I will never forget. 4 storms at a time. That did happen this year, but barely. Hurricane Erin (95) is the first hurricane I can remember, and I've been into hurricanes since.

[Stormsfury]

Wow! Does anyone have a loop of the Parade of Storms, either 95's, 96's (there were 4 storms at once in August), or 98 (between Frances to Karl, possibly)? Those seasons I will never forget. 4 storms at a time. That did happen this year, but barely. Hurricane Erin (95) is the first hurricane I can remember, and I've been into hurricanes since.

There you go, hurricanehink. Try this one out (Need Internet Explorer)
http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Trop ... mages.html

[Hurricanehink]

Wow, thanks a bunch. Great list there, very impressive.

[HUC]

Fantastics images,and thank's for all of you.
I'am searching satellite's images of CLEO in 1964,and INEZ in 1966.
Sure it was the begining of the satellite era(ANA was the first Atlantic storm to be photografied from space in 1962,i think?),but i remember to have seen somewhere satellite's photos of these stormsof 1964 and 1966.
I hope someone got an information?????

[AussieMark]

Does anyone have a image of Hurricane Joan in 1988.

For those that can't remember Hurricane Joan was the strongest storm to develop south of 12°N and the strongest Hurricane to strike Nicaragua south of Bluefields.

Sustained winds were 145 mph when she struck and Bluefields resembled a war zone and not a Port town which it had been only hours earlier.

[cycloneye]

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/sju/georges88d.html

Here is a radar image of Georges as it made landfall in Puerto Rico.I bumped up this thread that was way buried but has great pics and radars of past hurricanes.Anyone who may have great pics or radars you can post them in this thread.

[HurricaneBill]

Does anyone have a image of Hurricane Joan in 1988.

For those that can't remember Hurricane Joan was the strongest storm to develop south of 12°N and the strongest Hurricane to strike Nicaragua south of Bluefields.

Sustained winds were 145 mph when she struck and Bluefields resembled a war zone and not a Port town which it had been only hours earlier.

I do. I found it on the web in late 2002 and printed it out. But the pic has since disappeared from the web. I'll try scanning the Joan pic I have. However, it's rather dark.

[HurricaneBill]

I'm a hurricane collector. I have searched high and low, long and hard, near and far, on the Internet for hurricane pictures.

I print out the satellite images of hurricanes and keep them in folders. I have four folders.

Red folder= Atlantic hurricanes
Orange folder= Eastern Pacific hurricanes
Purple folder= Typhoons
Blue folder= Cyclones (although I'm thinking of splitting this folder into different folders)

I've googled the web and my collection has grown very large.

Here are the Atlantic hurricanes that I have:
Hurricane Alice (1955) (radar pic) (the latest and earliest Atlantic hurricane! Was a hurricane from December 30th, 1954 to January 4th, 1955)
Hurricane Connie (1955) (radar pic)
Hurricane Audrey (1957) (radar pic)
Hurricane Helene (1958) (radar pic)
Hurricane Abby (1960) (radar pic)
Hurricane Donna (1960) (radar pic)
Hurricane Anna (1961)
Hurricane Betsy (1961)
Hurricane Carla (1961)
Hurricane Debbie (1961)
Hurricane Esther (1961)
Hurricane Ginny (1963)
Hurricane Cleo (1964) (radar pic)
Hurricane Gladys (1964)
Hurricane Betsy (1965)
Hurricane Alma (1966)
Hurricane Faith (1966)
Hurricane Inez (1966)
Hurricane Beulah (1967)
Hurricane Chloe (1967)
Hurricane Doria (1967)
Hurricane Gladys (1968)
Hurricane Camille (1969)
Hurricane Celia (1970)
Hurricane Agnes (1972)
Hurricane Ellen (1973)
Hurricane Caroline (1975)
Hurricane Eloise (1975)
Hurricane Belle (1976)
Hurricane Emmy (1976)
Hurricane Frances (1976)
Hurricane Anita (1977)
Hurricane Babe (1977)
Hurricane Ella (1978)
Hurricane Greta (1978)
Hurricane David (1979)
Hurricane Frederic (1979)

I'll post the rest in my next post. If there's any storms listed above that you want to see, I'll be glad to provide them.

[Wnghs2007]

I would like to see pics of Hurricane Camille if that is possible....Thanks.