Landfall
The intersection of the surface center of a tropical cyclone with a coastline.
LANDFALL The point at which a tropical cyclone's eye first crosses a land mass.
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The intersection of the surface center of a tropical cyclone with a coastline.
Landfall
See also: List of notable tropical cyclones and Unusual areas of tropical cyclone formation ...
Pre-Eye Landfall Time
The time before actual hurricane eye landfall within which evacuation cannot be carried out because of earlier effects, ...
After landfall, the storm moved almost exactly northward, speeding up and losing intensity. At 02Z on the 19th, Isabel was reclassified as a tropical storm, and at 13Z was at 40.5°N, 79.
Tropical Cyclone Associated High WindsHigh winds that occur a few hundred miles or so inland from the coast of a landfalling tropical cyclone.
Hurricane Model: The Geophysical and Fluid Dynamics Laboratory(GFDL) developed the hurricane model in order to improve hurricane landfall forecasts. The hurricane model is centered on the eye of the hurricane for each run of the model.
Like their tropical cousins Polar lows tend to decay rapidly with landfall, mostly due to the lack of warm moisture supply from the relatively warm sea. Some polar lows, however, can produce blizzard conditions over land.
As it made landfall, it weakened into a rain depression, which drifted west towards Katherine on 25-26 January.
With hurricanes being as powerful as they are, it is not surprising that upon landfall they cause damage and destruction. Even when the hurricane has yet to make landfall, its effects can be dangerous.
Saffir-Simpson Scale: a hurricane intensity scale created to quantify the amount of damage they will cause upon landfall.
8. Storm surge - a dome of water often 50 miles wide that comes sweeping across the coastline near the area where the eye of the hurricane makes landfall.
FLOOD TERMS: ...
In 1969, "Hurricane Camille" produced a storm surge of 25 feet at Pass Christian, Mississippi. Sustained wind speeds were estimated in excess of 200 mph when the storm made landfall.
FLASH FLOOD: A flood which is caused by heavy or excessive rainfall in a short period of time, generally less than 6 hours. These conditions are often produced by slow moving thunderstorms or tropical systems which make landfall.
Currently Typhoon Maggie is tracking through the Philippine Sea in the northwestern Pacific, but is not presently a threat to make landfall soon.
Hurricanes can cause extensive damage from the ocean storm surge where the hurricane makes landfall as well as wind damage anywhere where the bad part of the hurricane crosses.
 See also: Storm, Water, Cyclone, Tropical cyclone, Pressure
  
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