[STORMREPORTS] CAT 3 Charley Turns To The Right
Here in suburban SW Plant City, FL I'm now experiencing feeder band #2 from CAT 3 Hurricane Charley, with a falling barometer and gusty south wind to 30 mph. This feeder band is triggering multiple tornado warnings from NWS Tampa Bay.
Due to speed divergence (friction of the east side of the cyclone circulation against the coast) Hurricane Charley has now turned slightly east of north as of 1:00 pm EDT. If this trend continues then this means a landfall south of Tampa Bay and we have dodged a mega billion $$$ storm surge disaster.
Unfortunately though it means a bad blow for Charlotte Harbor between Sarasota and Ft. Myers, another very vulnerable and highly populated estuary.
It also means that my immediate metro area of Plant City/Lakeland "may" see a bigger blow with the eye wall possibly passing overhead. Odds are that once the eye wall comes ashore "near" Venice, it will turn back to a more northerly heading.
73,
NWS Tampa Bay, FL SKYWARN Observer # HIL-249
PODXS 070 PSK31 Club Member #349
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From: Thomas Giella KN4LF (kn4lf{at}tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 13:18:12 EDT
Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Plant City, FL, USA
Grid Square EL87WX
Lat & Long 27 58 31 44N 82 09 51 98W
SWFWMD Rainfall Network Observer #574 Thackery
CWOP Weather Station #CW2111
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