Largest eye ever recorded in a hurricane?

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Largest eye ever recorded in a hurricane?

#1 Postby Pearl River » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:38 am

Does anyone know what the largest eye ever recorded in a hurricane was?
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#2 Postby terstorm1012 » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:17 am

Felix in 1995 had one 80+ miles across, though Felix never made landfall, just teased the East Coast near Labor Day Weekend.
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#3 Postby CronkPSU » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:52 am

what was wilma crossing the penisula??? had to be close
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#4 Postby Hurricanehink » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:02 pm

Some WPAC ones had huge ones, though they were not officially "hurricanes". Rusa in 2002, for example, had a 120 nautical mile wide eye.
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#5 Postby EDR1222 » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:06 pm

I believe Wilma's was about 70-75 miles across or maybe more as it pulled away from the Florida east coast.
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#6 Postby jax » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:37 pm

CronkPSU wrote:what was wilma crossing the penisula??? had to be close


it was a tropical storm crossing the peninsula....
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#7 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:46 pm

jax wrote:
CronkPSU wrote:what was wilma crossing the penisula??? had to be close


it was a tropical storm crossing the peninsula....


Is this a joke lol? :lol:
It was not a tropical storm. It was at least Category Two
across the entire peninsula.
Sustained Category 2 winds were recorded over Lake Ockeechobee

A gust was recorded to 76 mph in southern St. Pete by an
unofficial source...and that's over 100 miles northwest of center.
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#8 Postby x-y-no » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:51 pm

jax wrote:
CronkPSU wrote:what was wilma crossing the penisula??? had to be close


it was a tropical storm crossing the peninsula....


:?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:
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#9 Postby cjrciadt » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:56 pm

Recon found an 80 mile wide eye after crossing FL when borderline Cat4 winds. I guess it will take the record.
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#10 Postby HurricaneBill » Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:05 pm

Typhoon Carmen in 1960 was a Category 1 typhoon but had an incredible 200-mile wide eye.

Okinawa recorded it on radar.

Here's a link: (Warning: It's PDF)

https://metoc.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc/atcr/1960atcr/pdf/wnp/31.pdf
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#11 Postby quandary » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:11 pm

jax wrote:
CronkPSU wrote:what was wilma crossing the penisula??? had to be close


it was a tropical storm crossing the peninsula....


Derek even said that it might be upgraded to a Cat 4 crossing Florida.
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#12 Postby EDR1222 » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:11 pm

Wow! 200 miles is incredible. Thanks for posting the link.
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#13 Postby Air Force Met » Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:21 pm

HurricaneBill wrote:Typhoon Carmen in 1960 was a Category 1 typhoon but had an incredible 200-mile wide eye.

Okinawa recorded it on radar.

Here's a link: (Warning: It's PDF)

https://metoc.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc/atcr/1960atcr/pdf/wnp/31.pdf


Thanks for sharing that. I was going to say Jelewat back in 2000. It was about 90-100nm...but wow...200. I remember Jelewat looking like a big doughnut...and what was weird was it started off with an eye about 3nm's across.

Thanks for the link.
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#14 Postby Pearl River » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:34 pm

Thank's guys. Looking back at Betsy in 65, I believe her eye at one time was 80 miles across.
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#15 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:36 pm

Wow that is a tremendous eye- 200 miles across
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#16 Postby bombarderoazul » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:54 pm

Wpac storms have big eyes, in fact Super Typhoon Nabi of 2005 had an eye 100 miles across when it was a cat 3.
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#17 Postby HurricaneBill » Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:00 am

Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:Wow that is a tremendous eye- 200 miles across


Although only a Category 1, Carmen was also a rather large typhoon. At the time the 200-mile wide eye was observed, Carmen was about 800 miles in diameter.

Carmen went on to strike South Korea, killing 24 people.
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#18 Postby sponger » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:16 am

Wow! 800 miles across covering 500,000 square miles. Thats a big girl! Must have been a heck of a swell for Japan,
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#19 Postby JonathanBelles » Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:15 pm

Tampa Bay Hurricane wrote:
jax wrote:
CronkPSU wrote:what was wilma crossing the penisula??? had to be close


it was a tropical storm crossing the peninsula....


Is this a joke lol? :lol:
It was not a tropical storm. It was at least Category Two
across the entire peninsula.
Sustained Category 2 winds were recorded over Lake Ockeechobee

A gust was recorded to 76 mph in southern St. Pete by an
unofficial source...and that's over 100 miles northwest of center.


yes i live in st. pete. and we had wind gusts here of at least 60 mph
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#20 Postby JonathanBelles » Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:22 pm

are we talking internationaly because i think tyhoon tip had to be pretty big
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