Re: Wind Swaths
Posted by James g on 10/8/2018, 2:40 pm
Hurricanes, depending upon their size and forward speed, can produce damaging hurricane force and higher wind gusts hundreds of miles inland in some cases. When Hurricane Opal struck the western Fla. panhandle and then moved inland, she was still a tropical storm when she arrived in north Alabama. Parts of the Southern Apps, as far away as Asheville NC, experienced 50-70 MPH from that storm.
Hurricane Ivan took a similar path and that storm knocked out power and caused flash flooding all the way from the Alabama GC right on up into parts of New England.

If a storm is moving fast the winds of said storm can remain high further inland than in cases where a storm is moving slowly.
Regardless of the winds, all tropical systems have the potential to spawn tornadoes, severe ts, flash flooding, and in mountainous terrain debri flows and rock slides, hundreds of miles inland.

There has been several storms that have struck the SC coast , traveled all the way to Canada and caused severe damage, even there !

Does that tell you anything ?
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