Hurricane Hernan (1 Sep 2002)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Hurricane Hernan, September 1, 2002

Hurricane Hernan located 625 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Hernan has maximum sustained winds of 130 knots with gusts to 160 knots. The overall structure of the storm is shown in this animation with rain amounts being shown through color.Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.

Hurricane Hernan's rain structure on September 1, 2002. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain per hour, green is 1.0 inches of rain per hour and red is 2.0 or higher

Metadata

  • Sensor

    TRMM/TMI, TRMM/PR, IMAGE/VIS

  • Animation ID

    2519

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0024

  • Start Timecode

    01:06:33:00

  • End Timecode

    01:08:09:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/09/03

  • Scientist

    Jeff Halverson (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Hurricane

  • DLESE Subject

    Natural hazards, Atmospheric science

  • Data Date

    2002/09/01

  • Animation Type

    Regular