High Wind Risk Areas

[Ptarmigan]

A stronger hurricane moving faster is more likely to produce stronger winds further inland. It is possible for Houston to feel major hurricane force winds.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/wi ... reas.shtml

[TexasMetBlake]

I would assume that the above is a tad UNDERdone considering the wind chart produced by Texas Tech on Hurricane Ike....when i posted the picture, it cut off the scale to the right. Here is the scale:

Yellow: 75-80 mph
Lightest orange: 80-85 mph
medium orange: 85-90 mph
dark orange 90-95 mph
redish orange: 95-100 mph
red: 100-105 mph

[rnmm]

Very interesting Candy Cane, I have never see this before now. My family and I left for Ike so I never knew what it was like as he was blowing through.

[wxman57]

Here's the same graphic, but I added in some wind speed labels to make it easier to see. Used it during my talks in 2009. Cat 1 winds over a very large area. Cat 2 winds confined to the beach areas Bolivar to High Island. No inland penetration. Probably the fist time Harris County has seen sustained 74 mph winds since the 1940s.

Ike carried its winds inland farther than normal because it was a rare case of a hurricane strengthening at landfall. No, Ike wasn't a Cat 3. In fact, its winds were closer to 100 mph than 110, but a burst of deep convection in the western eyewall at landfall helped convey the stronger winds aloft down to the surface better. The winds across north and northeast Harris County were actually stronger than in areas near the coast that went through the western eyewall.

[jasons2k]

Thanks for posting those - I've never seen those.

Those maps show me very close to the 85-90 'bubble' spanning N. Harris and S. Montgomery. Pretty amazing stuff. I wish it had been daytime though.