Just-in-Time Lecture

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Just-in-Time Lecture Hurricane Rita
Ali Ardalan, Kourosh Holakouie Naieni, Ronald E.
LaPorte,
Eugene Shubnikov, Faina Linkov, Mehdi
Russel Eric K. Noji
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• Lecture objectives
• To provide the best possible
• information about the science of
• Hurricane Rita
• To learn how the science can help
• prepare us for primary secondary
• prevention consequences of Hurricane
• Rita

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"Preparation through education is less costly
than learning through tragedy." MAX MAYFIELD,
DIRECTOR NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
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Hurricane Rita

• 17th named tropical storm
• 9th named hurricane
• 5th major hurricane, 2nd category
• 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic
• hurricane season

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Hurricane Rita

• The strongest measured hurricane
• ever in the Gulf of Mexico
• The third most intense
• hurricane ever in
• the Atlantic Basin

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2005 Atlantic Hurricane Names
8. Harvey 9. Irene 10. Jose 11. Katrina 12.
Lee 13. Maria 14. Nate
1. Arlene 2. Bret 3. Cindy 4. Dennis 5. Emily 6.
Franklin 7. Gert
15. Ophelia 16. Philippe 17. Rita 18. Stan
19.Tammy 20. Vince 21. Wilma
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Rita formation From a tropical Depression to a
Hurricane Cat 5

• 17th Sep Tropical depression at east of Turks
  Caicos Islands
• 18th Sep Tropical storm mandatory evacuation
  of Florida Keys

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Rita formation From a tropical Depression to a
Hurricane Cat 5

• 20th Sep, night
• Tropical storm with wind speed of 70 mph (110
  km/h) incomplete eyewall
• 20th Sep, 945 AM
• Hurricane Cat 1 closed eyewall

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Rita formation From a tropical Depression to a
Hurricane Cat 5

• 20th Sep, 145 PM
• Hurricane Cat 2 with 100 mph (160 km/h) max
  sustained winds
• 20th Sep, 355 PM
• Hurricane Cat 5 with max wind
• speeds of 165 mph (265 km/h)

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NOAA

• Rita as a hurricane Category 5
• Minimum central pressure of 897 millibars (hPa)
  (26.49 inches of mercury) on the
• afternoon of Sep 21

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Ritas the highest sustained wind 175 mph (280
km/h)
Rita 18 Sep 2005
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Hurricane Rita

• Rita lost both hurricane and tropical storm
  status on the same day as its landfall
• NOAA's
• Rita's remnants, as an extensive low pressure
  area, cause substantial flooding due to rainfall,
  of which 5 to 15 inches (125 to 375 mm)

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Rita status 25 Sep 10 AM

• Location of centre of Tropical Depression 40
  miles (65 km) NE of Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Storm movement Moving NE at 20 mph (32 km/h)
  with max sustained winds of 20 mph (32 km/h)

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Top five most intense Atlantic hurricanes since measurements began (NOAA) Top five most intense Atlantic hurricanes since measurements began (NOAA) Top five most intense Atlantic hurricanes since measurements began (NOAA) Top five most intense Atlantic hurricanes since measurements began (NOAA) Top five most intense Atlantic hurricanes since measurements began (NOAA)
North Atlantic North Atlantic North Atlantic North Atlantic North Atlantic
Pressure Year Hurricane Hurricane Rank
888 mbar (hPa) 1988 Gilbert 1 1
892 mbar (hPa) 1935 Labor Day 2 2
897 mbar (hPa) 2005 Rita 3 3
899 mbar (hPa) 1980 Allen 4 4
902 mbar (hPa) 2005 Katrina 5 5
Based on data from The Weather Channel Based on data from The Weather Channel Based on data from The Weather Channel Based on data from The Weather Channel Based on data from The Weather Channel
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• Affected area
• Bahamas
• Florida
• Cuba
• Yucatan
• Louisiana
• Texas
• Mississippi
• Arkansas

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Impacts

• Death toll as 24 Sep 29 (One by tornado, one by
  a fallen tree during the storm, others indirect
  deaths)
• Threats of floods
• Threats of Tornados

Damages 8 billion
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• Rita Economic importance
• Gulf of Mexico
• Concentration of oil infrastructure
• 2.000.000 barrels/day
• 30 of total refining capacity of
• the US as the world's largest
• consumer of gasoline crude oil

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