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The India Meteorological Department's scale uses seven different classifications for systems within the North Indian Ocean, and are based on the systems' estimated 3-minute maximum sustained winds. Tropical cyclones that develop in the Southern Hemisphere are only officially classified by the warning centres on one of two scales, which are both ...
The most intense tropical cyclone in the North Indian Ocean by both sustained winds and central pressure was the 1999 Odisha cyclone, with 3-minute sustained winds of 260 km/h (160 mph) and a minimum pressure of 912 hPa (26.93 inHg).
Although the scale shows wind speeds in continuous speed ranges, the US National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center assign tropical cyclone intensities in 5-knot (kn) increments (e.g., 100, 105, 110, 115 kn, etc.) because of the inherent uncertainty in estimating the strength of tropical cyclones. Wind speeds in knots are ...
The area of low pressure, dubbed Potential Tropical Cyclone 16 by the National Hurricane Center, currently has 35 mph winds off the east coast of Florida. ... These wind gusts, coupled with soaked ...
As of 11 a.m. ET Monday, the core of the system, sitting 75 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, was producing tropical-storm-force wind gusts and torrential rainfall, especially from ...
A broad zone of tropical-storm-force wind gusts, ranging from 40 to 60 mph (60 to 100 km/h) will extend from northeastern Maine through much of the Gulf of St. Lawrence region in Canada. The ...
On occasion, strong winds and wind gusts can occur in the rain bands of a tropical cyclone. And inside the eye the winds are relatively calm. At higher altitudes, the winds within a tropical cyclone head away from the center, forming the outflow which produces the shape of the tropical cyclone.
In the North Atlantic Ocean, the classification tropical storm is used to refer to a tropical cyclone with 1-minute maximum sustained wind speeds from 39 mph (63 km/h) to 72 mph (117 km/h). Tropical cyclones that attain such winds and move over land while maintaining those winds are capable of causing minor to moderate damage to human lives and ...