"decreases below 60m"
should actually intimate: water depth less than 60m. What I mean by this, the storm should maintain intensity at FL and increase its surface/FL ratio (e.g. from my advocated 0.73, progressively and incremently with respect to time, to the NHC's 0.91 limit - according to the definition of limit understood by those having comprehension of calculus), until the water depth becomes less than 60m.
I understood that. All we need now is a depth chart of the northwestern Gulf.
Station CAPL1 - 8768094 - Calcasieu Pass, LA
Conditions at CAPL1 as of
(8:12 pm CDT on 09/23/2005)
0112 GMT on 09/24/2005:
Wind Direction (WDIR): NNE ( 30 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 45.1 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 67.0 kts
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.03 in
Air Temperature (ATMP): 75.4 °F
Water Temperature (WTMP): 82.4 °F
09 23 8:06 pm NE 44.1 59.1 - - - - - - - - - - - -
09 23 8:00 pm NNE 47.0 61.0 - - - - - - - - - - - -
09 23 7:42 pm NNE 45.1 54.0 - - - - - - - - - - - -
09 23 7:36 pm NNE 48.0 55.9 - - - - - - - - - - - -
09 23 7:30 pm NNE 46.0 61.0 - - - - 29.08 - 75.6 83.3 - - - -
09 23 7:24 pm NNE 47.0 78.1 - - - - 29.09 - 75.4 83.3 - - - -
09 23 7:18 pm NNE 45.1 55.0 - - - - - - - - - - - -
09 23 7:12 pm NNE 44.1 58.1 - - - - - - - - - - - -
09 23 7:06 pm NNE 49.0 78.1