wxhstn74 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Anniversary of a super windstorm; Hurricanes in Michigan??? Today it would be due to Global Warming...Enjoy. http://weatherhistorian.blogspot.com/2012/09/hurricanes-in-michigan_25.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 The armistice day blizzard should make the list. It devistated acres and acres of forests in MI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 great writeup as always! and you are so right, today such a windstorm would be "because of gw" lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Track was a bit different but the 41 storm seems to have behaved similarly to Ike in 2008. Not very often you get these big wind machines so far inland after landfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropy Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Anniversary of a super windstorm; Hurricanes in Michigan??? Today it would be due to Global Warming...Enjoy. http://weatherhistor...ichigan_25.html Sounds a lot like what the remnants of Hurricane Ike did to Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, western Pennsylvania, and western New York, just several hundred miles further to the west. Like the 1941 storm, the winds in the Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes were not accompanied by rainfall. There was actually a lot of sun and temperatures well into the mid- and upper 80s. There was widespread damage and the largest wind-related power outage in the region, with sustained winds of 50+ mph and gusts to 80 mph. It might be an interesting exercise to compare the atmospheric set-up for both events. I suspect they would be similar. It would probably help future forecasts for these types of events. Recall Ike was very poorly forecast. Advisories and warnings were not hoisted in many places until after the damaging winds began to occur or were imminent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 The Hurroncane was a cool read. Still blows my mind that I had no idea this was taking place in 1996... Chalk that up to the poor weather based websites in 1996. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganLion Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Track was a bit different but the 41 storm seems to have behaved similarly to Ike in 2008. Not very often you get these big wind machines so far inland after landfall. Yes. I had read about the 1941 storm well before 2008 (when I happened to still be living in SE Michigan), and I thought reading that: "well, that's a once in forever-type event. I can't imagine it ever happening, and I can't imagine what it would be like to experience." Well, I had moved to Cincinnati by September 2008. Mostly sunny skies, 85 degrees, with wind gusts amazingly also approaching the 85 number. What an event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 This storm has recently been reanalyzed by HRD and there were some changes. Here are a few: -landfall intensity in Texas was increased to Category 3 -post-landfall intensity was increased such that the storm retained tropical storm force winds for its entire track after landfall (though storm character eventually changed from tropical to extratropical) -track shifted a bit west in IN/MI Here is a comparison between the old coordinates/intensities and the revised coordinates/intensities, old on the left and new on the right. Notice the substantial increase in winds, which is consistent with reports of widespread high, damaging winds from that day. Winds are maximum sustained in knots. 00z Sep 25: 36.9N, 90.9W, 35 kt ..... 36.0N, 91.1W, 35 kt 06z Sep 25: 39.5N, 88.2W, 35 kt ..... 38.8N, 88.7W, 35 kt 12z Sep 25: 42.2N, 85.5W, 30 kt ..... 42.4N, 85.9W, 40 kt 18z Sep 25: 44.5N, 82.8W, 30 kt ..... 44.9N, 82.6W, 50 kt The storm intensified a bit more after this with maximum sustained winds of 55 kt at 00z Sep 26 before slowly weakening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxhstn74 Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 Thanks; the new updated data fits the scenario better across the Lakes and SE Mich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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