Friday, August 31, 2007

TODAY IN WEATHER HISTORY




August 31st, 1993




Hurricane Emily lashed the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Hatteras NWS Office recorded a gust of 98 mph and was deluged with 7.51 inches of rain. Sound water levels rose to 10.5 feet above normal north of Buxton and 8.5 feet above normal in the villages of Frisco and Hatteras. Diamond Shoals coastal marine buoy recorded sustained winds of 103 mph with gusts to 148 mph after the eye passed.

The World Meteorological Organization is who decides what names to use each year. They rotate the list of names every six years. The only time a new name is added is if a hurricane is very deadly or costly. Then the name is retired and a new name is chosen. The letters Q,U,X,Y and Z are never used to name a tropical storm.




The name Emily has been used since 1993 and here is a recap of those dates.

Tropical Storm Emily (1999):
Tropical Storm Emily formed on August 24th from the same cluster of tropical waves that spawned Hurricane Cindy and Hurricane Dennis. The storm moved roughly north until the 28th when it was absorbed by Hurricane Cindy. Emily never directly affected land and there is no damage reported in association with it.














HURRICANE EMILY (2005):

Hurricane Emily was the fifth named storm, third hurricane, second major hurricane and first Category 5 of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Emily then made landfall on the Yucatan Penninsula as a Category 4 storm, first on the island of Cozumel and then just north of Tulum on the mainland of Quintana Roo. After crossing the Bay of Campeche the hurricane made a final destructive landfall in the state of Tamaulipas in northern Mexico.

Posted by Patrick Crawford at 5:45 AM

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