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To: mware
160 mph now. How powerful were the winds during Andrew???

No one knows. All the wind gauges were destroyed.
1,139 posted on 08/28/2005 6:02:43 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Kozak
No one knows. All the wind gauges were destroyed.

Quite a telling statement!

1,141 posted on 08/28/2005 6:03:50 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (In Tampa Bay praying for all In Katrina's path.)
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To: Kozak
I know it spawned tornado's. Some NG documentary I watched said the tornadoes where F5's.

Just heard the levies were set to withstand Cat 3 storms not Cat 5.

1,149 posted on 08/28/2005 6:05:14 AM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Note)
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To: Kozak

There was recon of Andrew right up until Landfall, so land-based anemometers weren't the sole source of data.

The reanalysis of Andrew in 2002 put the winds of Andrew at Landfall at 145 kts.


1,154 posted on 08/28/2005 6:06:13 AM PDT by Strategerist
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