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Hurricane Barry was an asymmetrical tropical cyclone that was the wettest on record in Arkansas and the fourth-wettest in Louisiana. The second tropical or subtropical storm and first hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, Barry originated as a mesoscale convective vortex over southwestern Kansas on July 2.
It later reported that Barry had weakened back to a tropical storm.Images taken by NASA-NOAA GOES-East satellite shows the storm above the Louisiana coast. ... Hurricane Barry made landfall in ...
A mesocyclone from the Greensburg, Kansas tornado indicated on Doppler weather radar.. A mesocyclone is a type of mesovortex, approximately 1 to 10 km (0.6 to 6 mi) in diameter (the mesoscale of meteorology), within a convective storm. [6]
Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES-East via Storyful. Hurricane Barry made landfall in Louisiana on Saturday, July 13, bringing sustained winds of up to 75 mph, storm surges, and life-threatening flooding ...
Barry's convective structure remained asymmetrical, with nearly all of the convection location south of the circulation due to wind shear and dry air. Around 12:00 UTC on July 13, Barry intensified into a hurricane and peaked with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h). Three hours later, Barry made landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana.
A National Weather Service technician monitors Hurricane Carla on a WSR-57 radar on Sept. 10, 1961. (NOAA) For more than 60 years, Hurricane Carla has been the benchmark for landfalling hurricanes ...
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...
Carrying "off the chart" amounts of moisture, Barry crawled ashore in Louisiana and quickly weakened to a tropical storm that promised to dump heavy rains