Tropical Storm Edouard

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Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean:

Tropical Storm Edouard


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Table of contents:

Introduction: page: 3Edouard:

Arise of Edouard page: 4

Wind history page: 4 Landfall page: 6

Rainfall page: 7

Damage page: 9Appendix page: 10Sources page: 11

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Introduction:In this report I am going to tell you something more about Tropical Storm Edouard. Edouard

was the first tropical storm that made landfall in the United States. But after Hurricane Dolly,

Edouard was the second system that made a landfall. Edouard was a heavy tropical storm,

because Edouard had a lot of thunderstorms, tornados and a lot of rainfall.

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Arise of Edouard:Edouard arose in the beginning of August from a low pressure front which became more

organised when it came in the Golf of Mexico. After the low pressure area reached the

subtropical ridge, it became more organised and became a tropical depression 5. Tropical

Depression 5 was now about 137 km from the south coast of the United States. While

Tropical Depression moved further into the Golf of Mexico, it became stronger and theNational Hurricane Centre upgraded Tropical Depression into Tropical Storm Edouard. And

so the 5th storm of hurricane season 2008 was a fact.

Wind history:As we see in the

picture here below,

there was the

chance of gust of 39

mph. The green

lines show that

there is a chance of

less than 1%. In the

purple spot there is

a 100% chance of a

gust of 39 mph and

of course a higher

one.

Tropical storm

Edouard hasnt got

a very long windhistory, but he

developed very

quickly. As you see

in the next picture,

tropical storm Edouard was only in the Golf of Mexico, so he couldnt get more strength to

develop any more.

The dark blue spotsare the places whereEdouard was a tropicaldepression. The lightblue spots are wherehe was a tropicalstorm.

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This table below shows the wind history of tropical storm Edouard:

Date/time Latitude

(North)

Longitude

(West)

Pressure Wind speed

(knots)

Catergory

03/1200 28.1 87.4 1010 25 Tropical

Depression

03/1800 28.1 87.8 1009 30 TropicalDepression

04/0000 28.1 88.5 1002 45 Tropical

Storm

04/0600 28.1 89.6 1005 40 Tropical

Storm

04/1200 28.1 90.3 1002 40 Tropical

Storm

04/1800 28.3 91.0 1001 40 Tropical

Storm

05/0000 28.5 91.7 999 50 Tropical

Storm

05/0600 29.0 92.9 997 55 Tropical

Storm

05/1200 29.6 94.2 996 55 Tropical

Storm

05/1800 30.0 94.8 999 40 Tropical

Storm

06/0000 30.6 95.7 1003 30 Tropical

Depression

06/0600 31.4 97.0 1008 25 Remnant

Low06/1200 32.0 98.0 1011 20 Remnant

Low

06/1800 32.7 98.7 1012 20 Remnant

Low

07/0000 - - - - Dissipated

Edouard came ashore on 5 August on 12

oclock. As you see here in the table, tropical

storm Edouard was at his heaviest point when

he came ashore. The wind fell down when he

came ashore, and he lost his power quicklywhen he came ashore.

This picture shows when tropicalstorm Edouard came ashore in Texas

and Louisiana.

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Landfall:When Edouard came ashore, he

brought a lot of rain and some

heavy wind gust with him.

Luckily Edouard couldnt

develop much in the Golf ofMexico, so the storm was not so

heavy as he could be if he had

had more time to develop. The

area where he came ashore was

very much damaged by Katrina,

and the fear was heavy because

this year was expected to be

almost as heavy as 2005.

Edouard was the first tropical

storm of this season, who made

landfall in the area where Katrinamade a lot of damage.

This picture tells us about the landfall on August the 5th. In this picture it is very clear where

he made landfall. It was between Galveston and Beaumont. In the table here below we see

what the maximum of the wind gust was and the pressure that was measured when Edouard

made landfall. The locations are from a public station or from a station of the NOAA.

Location

(abbreviations)

Pressure

(mbar)

Wind Gust

(knots)

Galveston Scholes Field(KGLS) 1009.0 39

Beamont

(KBPT)

1000.0 49

Sabine Pass

(SRST2)

996.5 56

North Jetty

(GSJT2)

- 52

Sabine Pass North

(SBPT2)

- 60

Calcasieu Pass

(CAPl1)

1001.0 54

Jamaica Beach

(JBHT2)

- 40

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Rainfall:

The picture here

below shows

what rainfall

tropical stormEdouard

brought with

him. In

Baytown

(Texas) the most

rain fell. About

6.48 inches.

That is 16.5 cm

of rain! Most

rain fell in the

coast area. Butif you look well,

you see a dark

spot in the

middle of the picture. There was a rainfall wall which produced a lot of rain.

In the picture here below the places where the most rain fell are visible. You can see that they

correspond. The

picture is a brightness

temperature, but this

shows us where the

lowest temperature

was, and also where

the most rain fell. As

rain falls the

temperature drops.

On the next page, I

am going to tell you

the statics of the

rainfall in Texas and

Louisiana.

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This picture shows us what the rainfall was in 12 oclock in the Trinity Bay on the border of

Texas and Louisiana. To clarify the picture I set this table here, so you can see the places and

marks where the data is from.

Place Rainfall in Inches in 12 hour

East Bay Bayou 4.69Lake Anahuac 3.15

Cotton Bayou 3.27

Smitch Point Sewer 3.54

State highway 365 1.02

Mayhaw Bayou 1.61

Highway 1663 2.09

The picture belongs to the Jefferson county drainage report.

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Damage:By the heavy rain that fell a part of

some towns were drained by the

water and the floods which Edouard

brought with him. As you see in the

picture next to the line, the water wasabout 10 to 15 cm high. That is not

very high, but if you have the water

inside it causes a lot of damage.

Before Edouard came ashore, they

evacuated the people, to protect them

from the heavy rainfall and the

floods from this tropical storm. After

Edouard had damaged the oil

platforms they saw that Edouard was

a dangerous tropical storm and that

they had to move the people from thearea where it was predicted that Edouard came ashore. They did the right thing, because water

is so unpredictable. Edouard brought a lot of floods of sometimes 1.1 meter high. Moreover

the heavy thunderstorms and the enormous rain that fell made Edouard a dangerous tropical

storm.

The damage that Edouard brought was not very high. But during the storm 1 person died. His

boat sank and he drowned. Apart from that, 30.000 people lost electricity in Jefferson County.

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Appendix:Edouard was the first tropical storm how terrorized the south coast of America. The people

were very scared because of hurricane Katrina in 2005, but the storm wasnt very heavy, but

causes a lot of damage in the coast area. Edouard was the first tropical storm how made a

landfall in the United States. After that Cristobal came close to the border of America.

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Sources:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2008217-0804/Edouard.A2008217.1700.1km.jpg

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCedouard218_G12L.jpg

http://208.191.93.83/maps.html?TE=2008-08-05-11-30-00

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/02ul5oD0wtez0/610x.jpghttp://www.nasa.gov/images/content/265188main_235A1074_655.jpg

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/tropical/rain/edouard2008filledrainwhite.gif

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/265499main_airs-20080805-browse.jpg

http://208.191.93.83/maps.html?TE=2008-08-05-12-00-00

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gL29uc70sfq7/610x.jpg

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/US/weather/08/03/tropical.weather/art.edouard.sat.1845.jpg

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ms-word/TCR-AL052008_Edouard.doc

http://www.tlcv.org/blog/uploaded_images/Eduoard-703116.jpg

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