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  Encyclopedia topic: Hurricane Opal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hurricane Opal was a major hurricane (A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)) that formed in the Gulf of Mexico (An arm of the Atlantic south of the United States and east of Mexico) in September 1995.
The tropical wave (additional info and facts about tropical wave) that would become Hurricane Opal emerged from the west coast of Africa (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) on September 11.
Opal remained a hurricane for nearly 12 hours after landfall, its rapid forward speed propelling it the entire length of Alabama before being downgraded to a tropical storm as it crossed into Tennessee (A state in east central United States).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/hurricane_opal.htm   (407 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Hurricane Opal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hurricane Opal's 8 to 14 foot storm surge damaged hundreds of structures along the Florida Panhandle in October 1995.
Hurricane Opal originated from an area of disturbed weather to the east of Cozumel, Mexico in late September.
Opal reached hurricane intensity on October 2nd, and begin a slow northward motion in response to an upper level trough moving the through the central United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hurricane-Opal   (606 words)

  
 Hurricane, something corporate hurricane, hurricane information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hurricane season officially descends on the Atlantic June 1st, but most of theworst in US history have hit in the fall.
Hurricane Voices, a not-for-profit breast cancer foundation, raises publicconsciousness and incites action in the fight against breast cancer.
The Hurricane operating system is a hierarchically clustered operating systemimplemented on the Hector multiprocessor.
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 HRD publications
Willoughby, H.E., and M.E.RAHN "Parameteric representation of the primary hurricane vortex.
DUNION, J.P., C.W. Houston, and M.D. A reanalysis of the surface winds for Hurricane Donna of 1960.
BLACK, M.L., J.F. Samsury, and H.E. Eastern Pacific Hurricanes Jimena of 1991 and Olivia of 1994: The effect of vertical shear on structure and intensity.
www.aoml.noaa.gov /hrd/hrd_sub/publications.html   (1916 words)

  
 Dr Lynn K. "Nick" Shay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Animations of TMI SST response to hurricane passages of: Hurricane Juliette (2001) and Hurricanes Isidore and Lili.
Hurricane Heat Potential Estimates from Satellite Radar Altimetry PowerPoint presentation from 11th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography (14MB).
Drennan, W. and L. Shay, 2005: On the variability of the fluxes of momentum and sensible heat.
storm.rsmas.miami.edu /~nick   (952 words)

  
 Search Results for tropical storm - Encyclopædia Britannica
These storm systems are known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic and eastern North Pacific and as typhoons in the western...
Water conditions favourable to the growth of reefs exist in tropical or near-tropical surface waters.
Hundreds of satellite images (dating back to 1960) of hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions, typhoons, tornadic storms, snowstorms, volcanic eruptions, forest fires, and other atmospheric disturbances.
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