Hurricane Debby
Hurricane Debby (1982)
Jump to: navigation, searchHurricane Debby was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season, peaking with winds of 135 mph (215 km/h). The fourth named storm of the season, it lasted roughly one week over the Atlantic Ocean, affecting Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Light damage was reported from winds over the Caribbean Sea. Debby also prompted some evacuations in Bermuda, with people either boarding up their homes or leaving the island completely.
Debby formed as a westward moving tropical wave off the coast of Africa on September 3. It began as a small and diffused storm, heading westward and possibly getting a circulation on September 7, but the circulation was gone by the next day. The wave was estimated to have spawned a tropical depression on September 13 near the Dominican Republic and strengthened into a tropical storm the next day, at which time it attained the name Debby . The storm moved north, grazing Bermuda and soon approached the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Strengthening into a hurricane, the storm gradually turned towards the northeast and reached its peak intensity on September 18 as a minimal Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale with winds of 135 mph (215 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 950 mbar (hPa; 28.05 inHg). Not long after attaining this intensity, the forward motion of the storm rapidly increased and Debby began to weaken. By September 20, the storm was moving at roughly 60 mph (95 km/h) towards the east as it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone. Another extratropical cyclone absorbed Debby shortly after.
- List of Atlantic hurricanes
- List of Atlantic hurricane seasons
- Timeline of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h NHC (1983). "Hurricane Debby Preliminary Report- Page 1 - Storm History I". The National Hurricane Center . http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_wallets/atlantic/atl1982-prelim/debby/prelim01.gif . Retrieved 2007-04-05 .