Hurricane Hugo – Luquillo, Puerto Rico – September 18, 1989
Posted on May 3rd, 2010
This is my Hurricane Hugo chase video. The footage was taken during Hugo's landfall on the northeast tip of Puerto Rico at Luquillo. In my 25 years of hurricane chasing, this remains, overall, the best footage I have ever been fortunate enough to capture. Though I have been in stronger hurricanes, given that Hugo was a borderline category three/four and the strongest portion of the eyewall passed directly over my location (during daylight hours), I had the rare opportunity to document the full force of an intense hurricane at a direct coastal location. Though significant damage begins about 8 minutes into the video, the peak winds occur between 10 through 21 minutes in, and are sustained near 130mph with gusts to 150-160mph. An anemometer on the island of Culebra (just offshore Eastern Puerto Rico) reported a peak gust of 170mph when the same portion of the eyewall passed over that location a couple of hours prior to reaching Luquillo.
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Hurricane Hugo (High Quality) – 20th Anniversary – September 17-18, 1989
Posted on January 1st, 2010
Between September 16th and 22nd, 1989 one of the most infamous and disasterous hurricanes in Atlantic history, Hugo, devastated portions of the Caribbean and South Carolina. From the evening of the 17th through the morning of the 18th, the US Virgin Islands, and the northeastern tip of Puerto Rico bore the brunt of Hugo's exceptional violence. Alongside the thousands of residents who suffered through the terrifying experience, a small group of veteran storm chasers, including myself, had the ...
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Hurricane Wilma – Southern Florida – October 24, 2005
Posted on September 20th, 2009
This is a sample of my Hurricane Wilma storm chase video. The footage was taken during the peak of the storm on the Southwest Florida coast in Belle Meade, near Marco Island. Peak winds occur after the lull, associated with the passage of the storm's eye, and are near 100mph with gusts to 120mph.
Tags: 2005, Cyclone, Extreme, Florida, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, Laca, Michael, Severe, Storms, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, Wilma, wind
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Hurricane Wilma – Southern Florida – October 24, 2005
Posted on September 20th, 2009
This is a sample of my Hurricane Wilma storm chase video. The footage was taken during the peak of the storm on the Southwest Florida coast in Belle Meade, near Marco Island. Peak winds occur after the lull, associated with the passage of the storm's eye, and are near 100mph with gusts to 120mph.
Tags: 2005, Cyclone, Extreme, Florida, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, Laca, Michael, Severe, Storms, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, Wilma, wind
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Hurricane Wilma – Southern Florida – October 24, 2005
Posted on September 20th, 2009
This is a sample of my Hurricane Wilma storm chase video. The footage was taken during the peak of the storm on the Southwest Florida coast in Belle Meade, near Marco Island. Peak winds occur after the lull, associated with the passage of the storm's eye, and are near 100mph with gusts to 120mph.
Tags: 2005, Cyclone, Extreme, Florida, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, Laca, Michael, Severe, Storms, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, Wilma, wind
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Hurricane Wilma – Southern Florida – October 24, 2005
Posted on August 22nd, 2009
This is a sample of my Hurricane Wilma storm chase video. The footage was taken during the peak of the storm on the Southwest Florida coast in Belle Meade, near Marco Island. Peak winds occur after the lull, associated with the passage of the storm's eye, and are near 100mph with gusts to 120mph.
Tags: 2005, Cyclone, Extreme, Florida, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, Laca, Michael, Severe, Storms, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, Wilma, wind
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Hurricane Ike – Florida Keys – September 8-9, 2008
Posted on August 17th, 2009
During the first week of September, 2008 Hurricane Ike tore through the islands of Turks & Caicos and Great Inagua as a category four, with sustained winds of 135mph, before making landfall on the north coast of Cuba as a strong category three, with 120mph winds. Ike crossed the eastern and central provinces of the Cuban mainland and moved offshore, paralleling the south coast of the island, making another landfall over the western portion of Cuba and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. The ...
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Hurricane Hugo – Luquillo, Puerto Rico – September 18, 1989
Posted on April 29th, 2009
This is my Hurricane Hugo chase video. The footage was taken during Hugo's landfall on the northeast tip of Puerto Rico at Luquillo. In my 25 years of hurricane chasing, this remains, overall, the best footage I have ever been fortunate enough to capture. Though I have been in stronger hurricanes, given that Hugo was a borderline category three/four and the strongest portion of the eyewall passed directly over my location (during daylight hours), I had the rare opportunity to document the ...
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Hurricane Wilma – Southern Florida – October 24, 2005
Posted on January 16th, 2009
This is a sample of my Hurricane Wilma storm chase video. The footage was taken during the peak of the storm on the Southwest Florida coast in Belle Meade, near Marco Island. Peak winds occur after the lull, associated with the passage of the storm's eye, and are near 100mph with gusts to 120mph.
Tags: 2005, Cyclone, Extreme, Florida, HURRICANE, Hurricanes, Laca, Michael, Severe, Storms, Tropical, Typhoon, Weather, Wilma, wind
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