[Antennas] Wind Damage

2002年9月10日 09:59:43 -0400

I lived through "Wind Shear" It laid all trees over like toothpicks similar
to the anomaly in Russian forest. W2WU
----- Original Message -----
From: Lofstead, Jerry <[email protected]>
To: 'Tom' <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: 10 September, 2002 09:24
Subject: RE: [Antennas] Wind Damage Statistics-FYI
>> Here in the Atlanta, Georgia area, we get "Micro Bursts". These are
> tornado type winds with much strength and only affect an area possibly
> measured in 100's of square meters in area. But, they do a lot of
> damage when they hit. I had one take down a 50' tall tree about 14" in
> diameter and left it in relatively small pieces. It left my HF6V
> vertical unscathed! Generally, we rarely see winds above 50 MPH, except
> when the tornado season hits 8-).
>> Jerry
> W3CDE
>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ]
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 6:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Antennas] WindDamage Statistics-FYI
>>>> Just call you local television station and ask for the weather
> department,
> or your local commercial or public airport, and they will tell you the
> stats for your area. At least they do here in the Fort Worth, TX area.
>> There are lots of sites on the web with wind data for the entire
> world. Just do a search or look at www.noaa.gov for starters.
>> The difference between a rare occurrence and a typical storm wind is not
>> that much, so go for the extreme high wind. Here in North Central Texas
> we
> get lots of wind and the farther west you go the more wind you get. Ice
>> and wind go together here all the time because of our proximity to the
> Gulf
> of Mexico. A cold front will be topped out by a southerly wind which
> pumps
> lots of warm moisture into the air above the cold layer next to the
> ground,
> which then condenses out and causes superchilled water to accumulate and
>> freeze when it hits the ground, or anything else, resulting in a ice
> storm. Happens about twice a year here.
>> Tom F
> KD5TIE
>> A
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