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Weathervine Storm Intercept. Jeff Gammons and Jason Foster were
unable to accompany Chris Collura due to business matters.
This area shows pictures taken from the observations of strong
category-three hurricane Ivan in Florida panhandle near Pensacola in
Escambia County as well as near Mobile Alababma. The storm, was yet
another major hurricane (at least 130-MPH at US landfall) that
originally began as a tropical disturbance that moved off Africa. The
storm quickly strengthened, and first slammed into Granada and the
eastern Caribbean. The storm was later to become a rare category-five
hurricane, with maximum winds up to 165-MPH as it brushed by
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It crossed the extreme western tip of
Cuba as it made its final turn towards the US as it cycled between
category-four and five strength. Hurricane Ivan finally came ashore on
the east side of Mobile Bay and buffeted Pensacola, Florida with its
worst eyewall conditions on Wednesday morning, September 15, 2004
at about 2:45 AM as a borderline category 3-4 storm with 130-MPH
winds gusting to 165-MPH. The central pressure at time of eye
interception near Fairhope, Alabama was measured at about 943 MB
with an eye 30 miles across. This hurricane interception included
extreme storm surge footage, winds gusting over 130-MPH, and an
hour wait in calm winds while taking measurements inside the eye of
the storm near Fairhope (evacuated Thomas Hospital was the
reinforced-building observation point for the eyewall weather) as other
members of the chase team stayed in Mobile, Alabama. The entire
chase was from September 14 through September 16, with about 1,766
total miles logged.
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