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Right front quadrant of a typical hurricane. The strongest winds in a northern hemisphere tropical cyclone is located in the eyewall and the right front quadrant of the tropical cyclone. Severe damage is usually the result when the eyewall of a hurricane, typhoon or cyclone passes over land.
When Hurricane Ian made landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast on Sept. 28, 2022, Fort Myers, Florida, and surrounding areas were blasted by the right front quadrant and sustained catastrophic damage.
Wind speed and the speed of a storm or hurricane's forward motion determine how much water accumulates ahead of a storm. Often the strongest winds are in the right front quadrant of a moving storm.
The right-front quadrant of Hugo's eyewall moved over Montserrat on 17 September, raking the island with sustained winds of 140 mph (230 km/h). [29] The island may have also experienced wind gusts up to 240 mph (390 km/h). [51] The hurricane exacted a heavy toll over the course of 14 hours. [52]
The right front quadrant is the upper right quarter of a hurricane if it were dissected into four sections. Hurricanes can produce tornado outbreaks during the initial storm and for days afterward.
Cross section of a mature tropical cyclone. A typical tropical cyclone has an eye approximately 30–65 km (20–40 mi) across at the geometric center of the storm. The eye may be clear or have spotty low clouds (a clear eye), it may be filled with low-and mid-level clouds (a filled eye), or it may be obscured by the central dense overcast.
Tornadoes spawned by hurricanes and tropical storms most often occur in the right-front quadrant of the storm, but sometimes they can also take place near the storm’s eyewall, according to NOAA.
By 1922, it was known that the winds at 3 kilometres (9,800 ft) to 4 kilometres (13,000 ft) in height above the sea surface within the storms' right front quadrant were representative of a storm's steering, and that hurricanes tended to follow the outermost closed isobar of the subtropical ridge. [2]