96 ft wave recorded during Ivan

jes · #1 Postby **jes** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:29 pm

The local news in Mobile just reported that some group (can't remember who) had some type of recording equipment (no idea what it was) in the Gulf and Ivan passed right over it. The news said that they recorded a 92 or 96 ft wave which is supposed to be the largest ever recorded. They said that Ivan wasn't at his peak strength at the time he passed over the instruments so they feel that Ivan's waves could have been as high as 130 ft. Sorry I missed so much of the information, but thought I'd pass on the little I heard.

Regit · #2 Postby **Regit** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:32 pm

NRL Measures Record Wave During Hurricane Ivan

http://www.terradaily.com/news/hurricane-05s.html

Jim Cantore · #3 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:44 pm

Thats one heck of a wave

CHRISTY · #4 Postby **CHRISTY** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:56 pm

wow thats pretty incredible stuff.

Ivan14 · #5 Postby **Ivan14** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:58 pm

Wow that truly is amazing.

#6 Postby **Hybridstorm_November2001** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:43 pm

Indeed

#7 Postby **Evil Jeremy** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:54 pm

any pictures of it?

Stratusxpeye · #8 Postby **Stratusxpeye** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:01 pm

Thats one huge wave. Wouldnt want to be out there during that.

#9 Postby **tndefender** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:02 pm

COWABUNGA!

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #10 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:30 pm

Wow I can't believe a sea wave can be so big. Thank god it did not make it to land.

#11 Postby **Aslkahuna** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:45 pm

QE2 took a 90+ footer green across the bow a few years ago off the New England Coast.

Steve

x-y-no · #12 Postby **x-y-no** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:48 pm

Aslkahuna wrote:QE2 took a 90+ footer green across the bow a few years ago off the New England Coast.

Steve

Yes she did. But then she was built as a proper transoceanic liner, not a floating hotel, so she can take it. :-)

The North Atlantic gets those kind of seas fairly regularly.

#13 Postby **vbhoutex** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:52 pm

Evil Jeremy wrote:any pictures of it?

No the bouys etc. are not equipped with cameras.

I flew on the first plane along the Gulf coast the day after Camille hit. We flew out over the GOM to the South of the storm. We could see the waves below through breaks in the clouds. THEY WERE MONSTROUS!!! They looked like snow capped mountains. I wish I knew how big those were!!! And talk about turbulence!!! We had our seat belts on the whole time.

x-y-no · #14 Postby **x-y-no** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:03 pm

IIRC, the wave was detected by an array of pressure sensors on the bottom, so there wouldn't be any pictures.

#15 Postby **dhweather** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:09 pm

x-y-no wrote:IIRC, the wave was detected by an array of pressure sensors on the bottom, so there wouldn't be any pictures.

That is correct.

HurricaneHunter914 · #16 Postby **HurricaneHunter914** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:33 pm

Well that takes away one of Katrina's records.

Tampa Bay Hurricane · #17 Postby **Tampa Bay Hurricane** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:14 pm

wait i'm sure katrina had to have higher waves...it's wind field was much larger and it's strength greater 175 mph...

HurricaneHunter914 · #18 Postby **HurricaneHunter914** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:16 pm

I think Katrina had some higher waves too, but they probably wern't recorded so there isn't proof.

#19 Postby **Tstormwatcher** » Mon May 29, 2006 1:56 pm

90 to 100 ft waves are actually pretty common during storms. They are called Rogue Waves.

96 ft wave recorded during Ivan

96 ft wave recorded during Ivan

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