Joshua T. Clark
EF2
To all,
Has there ever been a tropical cyclone that maintained enough of the characteristics of a tropical cyclone per NHC's definition "a warm-core, non-frontal, synoptic-scale cyclone, originating over tropical or subtropical waters, with organized deep convection and a closed surface wind circulation about a well-defined center." pass over Oklahoma.
I know from the 2007 season that the remants of TS Erin traversed the state. What if any possibilites would have to exist for a tropical cyclone making landfall along the TX/LA border (this being the closest to the coast the SE corner of Oklahoma is) for it to maintain as a significant tropical cyclone over Oklahoma.
I suppose due to my knowledge of tropical systems that the only limiting factor for this is the removal of the warm tropical waters as a moisture source. Could other factors like the tropical moisture conveyor belt that commonly bring tropical moisture to the state or a very intense non-tropical synoptic size low that produced large amounts of rainfall with a period of warming that significantly moistens the atmosphere be enough to maintain a tropical cyclone for a significant period of time over land.
There was a prime example of that this season with Tropical Storm Fay maintaining strength and/or strengthening over Southern Florida. I tend to believe that the conditions would have to so extraordinary for this to even occur. I think it would matter that this storm would probally have to be a major hurricane at landfall.
Has there ever been a tropical cyclone that maintained enough of the characteristics of a tropical cyclone per NHC's definition "a warm-core, non-frontal, synoptic-scale cyclone, originating over tropical or subtropical waters, with organized deep convection and a closed surface wind circulation about a well-defined center." pass over Oklahoma.
I know from the 2007 season that the remants of TS Erin traversed the state. What if any possibilites would have to exist for a tropical cyclone making landfall along the TX/LA border (this being the closest to the coast the SE corner of Oklahoma is) for it to maintain as a significant tropical cyclone over Oklahoma.
I suppose due to my knowledge of tropical systems that the only limiting factor for this is the removal of the warm tropical waters as a moisture source. Could other factors like the tropical moisture conveyor belt that commonly bring tropical moisture to the state or a very intense non-tropical synoptic size low that produced large amounts of rainfall with a period of warming that significantly moistens the atmosphere be enough to maintain a tropical cyclone for a significant period of time over land.
There was a prime example of that this season with Tropical Storm Fay maintaining strength and/or strengthening over Southern Florida. I tend to believe that the conditions would have to so extraordinary for this to even occur. I think it would matter that this storm would probally have to be a major hurricane at landfall.
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