One Year Ago Today...

[Brent]

BULLETIN
TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 1
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
145 PM AST MON AUG 09 2004

...THIRD TROPICAL DEPRESSION OF THE SEASON FORMS NEAR THE WINDWARD
ISLANDS...

INTERESTS IN THE EASTERN AND CENTRAL CARIBBEAN SEA SHOULD CLOSELY
MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.

AT 145 PM AST...1745Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION
THREE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 11.7 NORTH...LONGITUDE 61.1 WEST OR
ABOUT 50 MILES... 80 KM...SOUTHEAST OF GRENADA.

THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 22 MPH
...35 KM/HR...AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR
THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 35 MPH... 55 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
THE DEPRESSION COULD BECOME A TROPICAL STORM TONIGHT OR ON TUESDAY.

WIND GUSTS TO TROPICAL STORM FORCE ARE LIKELY OVER PORTIONS OF THE
WINDWARD ISLANDS THROUGH THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY OVER ELEVATED
TERRAIN.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1011 MB...29.85 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 145 PM AST POSITION...11.7 N... 61.1 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...WEST NEAR 22 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS... 35 MPH.
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1011 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
500 PM AST.

FORECASTER PASCH

Just 96 hours later a Strong Cat 4 was bearing down on Southwest Florida.

[WeatherEmperor]

Ahhh. Charley....

<RICKY>

[Ixolib]

Great post - Wow!!

[Eyes2theSkies]

will never forget the comming days ahead of that statement

[du1st]

Yep charley. DA!

[feederband]

I remember thinking it was unreal the damage he did ..Little did I know three more were going to effect the state...

[Swimdude]

Charley. How utterly exciting. We should celebrate the anniversary for every retired storm. We'd have a celebration every few days.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Swimdude- Charley was the worst of the storms, it did the most damage and was the most intense. I am not downplaying other storms, but Charley will be remembered all through central and SW florida.

Words cannot describe the tragedy of Charley's wrath.

[skysummit]

Swimdude- Charley was the worst of the storms, it did the most damage and was the most intense. I am not downplaying other storms, but Charley will be remembered all through central and SW florida.

Words cannot describe the tragedy of Charley's wrath.

And not to downplay Charley, but Ivan will be remembered all through NW Florida and the Panhandle. "Words cannot describe the tragedy of Ivan's wrath."

I was in Pensacola this weekend and it's still in ruins in MANY parts of the area...especially from Pensacola Bch to Fort Pickens to Perdido Key. Some areas still look like bombs have went off. Ivan took out a damn bridge! AMAZING

[Brent]

Charley. How utterly exciting. We should celebrate the anniversary for every retired storm. We'd have a celebration every few days.

Well... Charley was the first storm to hit SW Florida in August... one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the U.S.... etc.

[Ivanhater]

Swimdude- Charley was the worst of the storms, it did the most damage and was the most intense. I am not downplaying other storms, but Charley will be remembered all through central and SW florida.

Words cannot describe the tragedy of Charley's wrath.

And not to downplay Charley, but Ivan will be remembered all through NW Florida and the Panhandle. "Words cannot describe the tragedy of Ivan's wrath."

I was in Pensacola this weekend and it's still in ruins in MANY parts of the area...especially from Pensacola Bch to Fort Pickens to Perdido Key. Some areas still look like bombs have went off. Ivan took out a damn bridge! AMAZING

lol, yes it did

[TheShrimper]

After being on the northern tip of Pine Island and catching Charley's eastern wall, I would agree that Ivan was the worse of the storms. Charley was too small windfield wise to be compared to Ivan. Most of the catastrorhic damage was to inferior housing as the norm, mobile homes ect. If Charley was even of normal size with the associated wind field expanded, There would have been widespread damage from Bonita Springs north to Venice, and Cape Coral would have fared the worse. It's path was thru farmland, all the way to Orlando, after impacting S. Charlotte and N. Lee Counties. Anyone who has ever driven up Rt. 17 knows what I am talking about.

[CronkPSU]

wow, was it only 96 hours later??? i had forgotten it intensified so quickly

[feederband]

Depends on what you saw... In Plant City it was Jeanne....Charley and Frances just grazed us....

[TheShrimper]

Remember also with Charley, that there was very little storm surge due to it's rapid movement and deepening at landfall. A slower moving Cat 2, would have caused much more damage hitting at Charley's exact point of landfall, then Charley did.

[gkrangers]

Remember also with Charley, that there was very little storm surge due to it's rapid movement and deepening at landfall. A slower moving Cat 2, would have caused much more damage hitting at Charley's exact point of landfall, then Charley did.

Storm surge damage, maybe.

The wind damage from Charley was INCREDIBLE.

From Punta Gorda to Orlando to Daytona Beach.

[TheShrimper]

Incredible is seeing poured steel reinforced tie beams blown off of the blocks they were poured upon. That happened with Andrew. Nothing of the sort happened with Charley...I was there pal.

[gkrangers]

Incredible is seeing poured steel reinforced tie beams blown off of the blocks they were poured upon. That happened with Andrew. Nothing of the sort happened with Charley...I was there pal.

Thats because Charley wasn't Andrew. I thought wind damage from Charley was pretty severe ?

[Ivanhater]

i wasnt there for charley so i cant compare but i know ivan was REALY bad and very destructive, surge AND wind wise

[Anonymous]

Incredible is seeing poured steel reinforced tie beams blown off of the blocks they were poured upon. That happened with Andrew. Nothing of the sort happened with Charley...I was there pal.

Thats because Charley wasn't Andrew. I thought wind damage from Charley was pretty severe ?

It was. Charley was 150 mph...Andrew was 165 mph. Big difference.