November 12, 2022 - Nicole Soaks the Eastern United States
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On November 10, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of
Tropical Storm Nicole moving northward across the United States. Nicole
was a remarkably large storm, with tropical-storm-force winds extending
outwards up to 345 miles (555 km) from the center, especially to the
northeast. This image shows convective bands and clouds stretching from
southern Florida to Maryland and West Virginia. The a cloud-filled
center of Nicole sits near Tampa on Florida’s west coast.
After making landfall near Vero Beach on Florida’s East Coast as a
Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (121 km/h),
the storm weakened as it crossed the state. According to the National
Hurricane Center, near the time this image was acquired, Nicole had
become a tropical storm and was carrying maximum sustained winds of 45
mph (70 km/h). It was located about 45 miles (70 km) north of Tampa,
Florida and about 165 miles (265 km) southeast of Tallahassee, Florida
and was moving northwest. By 10:00 p.m. EST on November 10, Nicole had
further weakened to become a tropical depression with maximum sustained
winds of 35 mph (55 mph). However, it remained a super-soaking storm as
it crossed the U.S. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.
According to meteorologist Jeff Masters, writing for Yale Climate
Connections, “ Nicole was just the fourth hurricane on record to hit
the contiguous U.S. after October, and the second-latest landfalling
hurricane on record. Only Hurricane Kate in 1985, which hit the Florida
Panhandle as a category 2 storm with 100 mph winds on November 21, made
landfall later in the season.”
Nicole brought a devastating storm surge which caused severe beach
erosion to parts of Florida, especially Volusia County where beachfront
homes were destroyed as the surge undercut the sand beneath the houses
and parts of the roadway crumbled. Coastal flooding occurred as far
north as Charleston, South Carolina, including record high water levels
of 3.58 feet above high tide measured at Jacksonville, Florida. The
storm was also responsible for the deaths of five people in Florida.
Image Facts
Satellite: Aqua
Date Acquired: 11/10/2022
Resolutions: 1km (569.2 KB), 500m (1.9 MB),
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-11-12
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