Looks like the wind speeds are in the 160-150 mph range.
Posted on 08/31/2006 9:37:02 AM PDT by HAL9000
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Super Typhoon Ioke, a Category 5 storm and the strongest to hit the Pacific in more than a decade, slammed into tiny Wake Island Thursday, threatening to submerge the U.S. territory, U.S. Navy weather forecasters said.The storm, packing sustained winds of more than 220 mph, with some gusts topping 250 mph, came ashore at about 10 a.m. ET, and was slowly tracking west, gaining strength over the warm tropical waters, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported. Wake Island is located about 2,300 miles west of Honolulu.
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Why is Rove not out there aiming this thing?
Version 3.0 is under development but might not be ready for a while.
Typhoon Pamela that hit Guam TWICE in 1975 had sustained winds to 210mph and gusts to 235mph.
That chart is several days old.
figure the odds that someone forgot to convert.
220?? Is that a misprint?
Me too, our 747 landed there in 1971. An engine needed repair. We were stuck ther for 8 hours and my swimsuit was in my luggage.
That sounds more likely
The second article quotes winds of 300 KPH, and so the 220 MPH just might be right.
That's probably right. Fox News just interviewed a colonel at Hickam Air Force Base who gave figures closer to your conversions.
The said the entire island was probably more than 30 feet underwater at peak of the storm.
Stop there twice...1960 going to Guam in a old Consellation and on the way back in 1961 going to Hawaii in a DC-7.
i was all of 6-7yrs old
The Navy site linked above says 135knots. Thats about 155mph. The weather channel info says 150 mph as well.
There is/was a hotel on Wake?
RMKS/ 1. FOR METEOROLOGISTS. 2. PROGNOSTIC REASONING FOR 311200Z AUG TO 051200Z SEP 2006. A. SUPER TYPHOON (STY) 01C (IOKE), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 30 NM NORTHWEST OF WAKE ISLAND, HAS TRACKED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT 12 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS.
B. MID-LEVEL RIDGING TO THE NORTHEAST OF STY 01C REMAINS THE DOM- INANT STEERING INFLUENCE FOR THE SYSTEM. THE RIDGING WILL CONTINUE TO EXTEND WESTWARD AS A MIDLATITUDE TROUGH, CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER JAPAN, LIFTS NORTHWARD. THIS WILL MAINTAIN STY 01C ON ITS NORTHWEST- WARD TRACK THROUGH TAU 72. THE AVAILABLE DYNAMIC AIDS CONSISTING OF NOGAPS, COAMPS, GFDN, NCEP GFS, AFWA MM5, JGSM, JTYM, EGRR, TCLAPS, AND WBAR ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THIS SCENARIO.
C. THE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN SUPER TYPHOON INTENSITY THROUGH TAU 48 AS THE RADIAL OUTFLOW REMAINS FAVORABLE. A SLIGHT INCREASE IN VERTICAL WIND SHEAR WILL BEGIN TO SLOWLY WEAKEN STY 01C BEYOND TAU 48 THROUGH TAU 72. SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SSTS) WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE THROUGH TAU 72, BUT WILL BECOME LESS FAVORABLE AS THE SYSTEM MOVES NORTHWARD.
D. CURRENT WIND RADII ARE BASED ON A 310830Z SSMIS AND A 310635Z WINDSAT PASS. FORECAST WIND RADII ARE BASED ON CLIMATOLOGY FOR AN AVERAGE TO LARGE-SIZED SYSTEM.
E. IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST FROM TAU 72 TO TAU 120 STY 01C WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK NORTHWESTWARD AND WILL SLOWLY WEAKEN DUE TO ITS TRACK INTO COOLER SSTS. AN INCREASE IN VERTICAL WIND SHEAR WILL ALSO HELP TO WEAKEN THE SYSTEM THROUGH TAU 120. A SLIGHT POLEWARD DRIFT IS EXPECTED BETWEEN TAU 96 AND TAU 120 AS AN APPROACHING MIDLATITUDE TROUGH STARTS TO WEAKEN THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE. AVAILABLE GUIDANCE INDICATES THAT EVEN AS THE RIDGE BEGINS TO WEAKEN, THE SYSTEM WILL STILL CONTINUE TO TRACK TOWARDS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF JAPAN. FORECAST TEAM: BRAVO// NNNN
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They may be lucky to find a sandbar when the weather clears...
And it's doubtful the runway will be in any condition to accept flights soon. They'll have to send in a bulldozer by boat, and it's unlikely that the docks exist to unload it.
Apparently a 72 year old French weatherman stayed on Wake to ride it out....I guess he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory....
Are you kidding me?? Unless there is some fortified concrete structure at least 4 stories high, they'll never find him.
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