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The Hurricane Supersonic Research Site (HSRS) was formerly on Hurricane Mesa in Washington County, Utah. It was a United States Air Force (USAF) launch complex with a rocket research track that launched a rocket ejection seat from a supersonic sled. The track's 12,000 ft (3,700 m) "of continuously welded, heavy-duty crane-rails aligned to ...
The first Hebert Box is located east of Puerto Rico over the US Virgin Islands, between 15° and 20° north latitude and 60° to 65° west longitude.This was the first area that Hebert discovered, and provides an indication for the behavior of Cape Verde type storms, which form off of the western coast of Africa near the islands of the same name.
Hurricane Debby was a slow-moving and erratic Category 1 hurricane that caused widespread flooding across the Southeastern United States in early August 2024. The fourth named storm and second hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Debby developed from a tropical wave that was first noted by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on July 26.
The National Hurricane Center's 8 am Friday advisory reported that Category 2 Hurricane Ernesto is 255 miles south-southwest of Bermuda, with maximum sustained wind of 100 mph. It’s moving 13 ...
Hurricane-force winds extend 35 miles out from the storm's center, and tropical-storm-force winds extend up to 130 miles. Coastal watches or warnings are still not in effect, and the storm does ...
September 28, 2022 at 5:13 PM. Gerardo Mora. Houses floating away, palm trees battered about and other mayhem from Hurricane Ian — The devastation being wrought by this nearly category 4 storm ...
Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is a metric used to compare overall activity of tropical cyclones, utilizing the available records of windspeeds at six-hour intervals to synthesize storm duration and strength into a single index value. [1] The ACE index may refer to a single storm or to groups of storms such as those within a particular month ...
Francine was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone Thursday after slamming the Louisiana coast as a powerful Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, with 100-mph winds that ripped roofs from buildings ...