Some stats to look at (Took me 3 hours so plz look at it)

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Some stats to look at (Took me 3 hours so plz look at it)

#1 Postby South Tampa » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:08 pm

There are 4 storms since 1850 that are similar to Ivan

They are:

Ivan 2004 150mph 938 MB

Storm 4 1947 161 mph 945 MB
Allen 1980 190MPH 899 MB
Gilbert 1988 184mph 888 MB
Georges 1998 155mph 937 MB

The way I came up with this was to use the following Criteria

1. Storm is stronger than Cat 3
2. Storm becomes a cane south of 15 degrees and east of 60 degrees (Ivan was a cat 4 when he was out at 50 degrees)
3. Storm enters GOM

I ran the data back to 1851

There are two storm that are also similar but missed on or more of the criteria

Camille 1969 190mph 909 MB (she North of 15 degrees and West of 60) SO she is out
Mitch 1998 178 mph 905 MB (West of 75 degrees) Out

I am not a MET but work in Intelligence for the DOD
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#2 Postby nolecaster » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:10 pm

Thanks for the info. Interesting
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#3 Postby JtSmarts » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:12 pm

Great post, very informative.
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#4 Postby dhweather » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:14 pm

Interesting data points. Good work!!
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#5 Postby skysummit » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:15 pm

Wow....and if I remeber right, they all had different tracks?
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#6 Postby wsquared77 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:16 pm

very interesting...thanks for putting the data together for us!
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#7 Postby yoda » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:17 pm

Yes... GREAT WORK!
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#8 Postby quickychick » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:17 pm

Nice work, South Tampa.
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#9 Postby senorpepr » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:18 pm

Great data... but where are you finding a 150 mph system? Latest data I see has it 145 mph.
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