Weather Records Set by Sandy

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Sandy Records

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
105 PM EST WED NOV 14 2012

...COASTAL STORM SANDY SETS SOME NEW RECORDS IN OUR AREA...

ON OCTOBER 29, 2012, COASTAL STORM SANDY SLAMMED INTO THE NEW JERSEY
COAST. A LARGE AND DAMAGING WIND FIELD ACCOMPANIED THIS STORM. A
PEAK WIND GUST TO 68 MPH WAS MEASURED AT THE PHILADELPHIA
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ACCORDING TO LOCAL RECORDS, THIS GUST IS THE
SEVENTH HIGHEST WIND GUST RECORDED AT THE AIRPORT. BELOW IS A
LISTING, BY RANK, OF THE HISTORIC PEAK WIND GUSTS FOR PHILADELPHIA.


RANK              PEAK WIND GUST /MPH/ AND DATE
----              -----------------------------

1                 94 MPH ON OCTOBER 15, 1954 /HURRICANE HAZEL/

2                 88 MPH ON JULY 14, 1931

3                 75 MPH ON JUNE 24, 2010 /THUNDERSTORM/

4                 71 MPH ON JUNE 1, 1998

5 /TIE/           69 MPH ON MAY 28, 2005 /THUNDERSTORM/
                  69 MPH ON MARCH 18, 1989 /THUNDERSTORM/

*7                68 MPH ON OCTOBER 29, 2012 /COASTAL STORM SANDY/

8                 67 MPH ON MAY 8, 1984 /THUNDERSTORM/



...RECORD LOW PRESSURE SET AT PHILADELPHIA DURING COASTAL STORM SANDY...

AT THE PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, THE PRESSURE DROPPED TO
953 MB AT 932 PM ON OCTOBER 29, 2012. THIS BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD
OF 962 MB, WHICH WAS SET DURING THE SUPERSTORM OF MARCH 13, 1993.



...RECORD SETTING STORM TIDE AT THE SANDY HOOK, NJ NOS TIDE SITE
DURING COASTAL STORM SANDY...

PRELIMINARY DATA PRIOR TO POWER BEING LOST, THE SANDY HOOK TIDE GAUGE
RECORDED A LEVEL OF 13.3 FEET MEAN LOWER LOW WATER /MLLW/, WHICH IS
AT LEAST 3.2 FEET HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 10.1 FEET SET
DURING HURRICANE DONNA ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1960. FUTURE REVIEW OF THIS
DATA, ONCE IT BECOMES AVAILABLE, WILL PROBABLY REVEAL AN EVEN HIGHER
TIDE DURING MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 29, 2012.



...RECORD SETTING WAVE HEIGHTS AT BUOY 44065 AND BUOY 44025 THE
EVENING OF OCTOBER 29, 2012 DURING COASTAL STORM SANDY...

WHILE THE OFFICIAL PERIOD OF RECORD IS VERY SHORT FOR BUOY 44065,
DATING BACK TO 2008, THE WAVE HEIGHT OF 32.5 FEET REPORTED AT 850 PM
EDT MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 29, 2012 AT THIS BUOY, EXCEEDED THE
PREVIOUS RECORD OF 26 FEET SET AT ABOUT 9 AM AUGUST 28, 2011,
ASSOCIATED WITH IRENE. BUOY 44065 IS LOCATED NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO
NEW YORK HARBOR, 15 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTHEAST OF BREEZY POINT, NY.

AT BUOY 44025, THE RECORD 31 FOOT WAVE HEIGHT AT ABOUT 8 PM EDT
MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 29, 2012, EXCEEDED THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF
30 FEET SET ON DECEMBER 11, 1992. THE PERIOD OF RECORD AT BUOY
44025 BEGAN IN 1975. BUOY 44025 IS LOCATED 30 NAUTICAL MILES SOUTH
OF ISLIP, NY.

BASED ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, IT IS SAFE TO SAY THAT BOTH
NATIONAL DATA BUOY LOCATIONS NEAREST SANDY HOOK, ACHIEVED A RECENT
RECORD EXTREME SEA STATE ON TOP OF AND PROBABLY VERY CLOSE TO THE
TIME OF THE RECORD STORM TIDE AT SANDY HOOK. ONE CAN INFER FROM THE
DATA THAT THESE WAVE HEIGHTS WERE THE LARGEST SINCE RECORD KEEPING
BEGAN IN THIS PORTION OF THE WESTERN ATLANTIC IN 1975.

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GORSE/DRAG

[Kenny]

WOW !

[Hunter 2]

  

I think we're gonna need a bigger boat.

[Still Running]

  Heck I think we beet some of the wind numbers up here in the woods.

[Duffman]

Crazy $hit.

Phish...thanks for the reports, updates and everything else in general weatherwise....good stuff.

[Scott G.]

   

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