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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 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.
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. The right front quadrant is also an area of a tropical cyclone were the winds are strongest.
Since the storm surge produced by the hurricane's right-front quadrant (containing the strongest winds) was more than 20 ft (6 m) near Biloxi, emergency management officials in New Orleans feared that the storm surge could go over the tops of levees protecting the city, causing major flooding. [30]
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]
"The right-front quadrant of the storm was in an abnormally primed environment to produce tornadoes." Since 1995, hurricanes and tropical storms have spawned more than 1,700 tornadoes, Edwards said.
A larger proportion of rainfall falls in advance of the center (or eye) than after the center's passage, with the highest percentage falling in the right-front quadrant. A tropical cyclone's highest rainfall rates can lie in the right rear quadrant within a training (non-moving) inflow band. [4]