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Quoted: What's the worst, strongest, biggest etc storm you can get? If it is a cat 5 now, is there a point where it turns into a 6, 7 etc?
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5 is the highest number. Anything over 155mph is Category 5.
The most powerful storm on record was Typhoon Tip in 1979 with max sustained winds of 190 mph.
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Hurrican Camille was oficially listed at 190 mph, but it is widely believed that the winds were in excess of 200 mph:
"Hurricane Camille is a bench mark in the American hurricane experience. Although Camille hit an area that had a relatively small population by today's standards, the region was sufficiently built-up enough to provide a first hand lesson of what a hurricane of maximum intensity is capable of. One thing remains as true today, as it was 34 years ago after the storm hit: Hurricane Camille is the most intense storm of any kind to ever strike mainland America in modern history.
To put Hurricane Camille in scientific perspective, the storm represents bad luck - more than any meteorological extreme. Although rare, several other category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic, and supertyphoons in the Pacific, have been as intense. The big difference however, was Camille made landfall when at this rare intensity. The resulting property damage was so complete, that sections of the Mississippi coast seemed to vanish."
"Due to Camille's extreme intensity at landfall, meteorological conditions (winds, tides, pressure...etc.), were impossible to obtain. The National Hurricane Center estimates Camille had sustained winds of 190 mph with gusts in the 210 - 220 mph range. A Transworld oil rig platform tower that was abandoned as the hurricane approached, recorded gusts to 172 mph until failure. It has been estimated that from Biloxi to Gulfport, wind gusts were in excess of 180 mph, while from Long Beach to Waveland, winds likely exceeded 200 mph.
The lowest barometric pressure recorded on land in Camille was 909 mb (26.85) at Bay St. Louis. This is the second lowest barometric pressure ever measured in the United States. Only the 1935 Hurricane produced a lower pressure in the middle Keys of 892 Mb (26.35). Several reports of pressure under 915 Mb (27.00), were reported by survivors near the eye."
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Fuck THAT.
Sat through Hurricanes Erin and Opal in Pensacola a month apart back in 1995. Erin was a weak 2 and Opal was a very strong 2, almost a 3, at landfall (At one time she was actually briefly a 5 while well out in the gulf.) Those were bad enough. I sincerely hope and pray that Florida and especially A2sights are spared a cat 5. My prayers are with you guys.
Good Luck and God Bless.
SG
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SG..I was in Camille at the ripe age of 8 years old, went to help my father's Uncle empty out his meat packing business in Mobile, we stayed at his house during the storm, on Mobile bay, Grand bay to be exact. It was my first hurricane experience..all I remember is the sound of the storm and all the debris flying. Unbelievable damage..there was hotel that had people gathered for the famous "hurricane party"..I think it had about 70-80 people there...the hotel was blown completely away..no trace of structures or people. There entire buildings and structures moved inland by a couple of miles. Entire roads gone..disappeared. It was like on big beach from the Gulf, inland.
I live in Ft.Walton bch, so Erin and Opal landing in Navarre was front row also. After Opal passed and devasted us, it was the morning after the OJ trial decision..no one in America paid us any attention. Not that we needed any, but we were without power for on Okaloosa Island for a week and half, without cable for a month and water was the same as power since it takes power to pump it. We still see the signs of Opal everywhere in town.
I have been through probably 20 + storms in my life..most of them in Florida. Back in the 80's I actually chased them for a weather service to report conditons in real time from the landfalls. I got paid $107 for chasing...big money.
Anyway...sort of like war stories I guess. I remember one time, seeing a cat climbing up a fence, as he reached the top, the wind just picked him up and threw him like a baseball. Always wondered if he made it. I saw a metal awning come off a building and flung like a frisbee till it hit a series of power lines and clip them like a knife. Ahhhh, the stories. Saw a brand new Mustang
float by our condo complex...amazing.