South Florida in the cone for it's first Tropical Storm this season.

Here are 2 pictures of Southport Marina in Southport, NC. Further up the river at Port City Marina a 64 footer sunk at the dock. My boat is at Port City and sustained no damage. Place on the ICW had a gutter come down and some shingles stripped. They is speculation that a tornado did the damage at Southport

Messed up and edited, got it right now. Sorry

Not a single report of sustained hurricane force wind anywhere. I ve looked at every buoy and coastal station ... 58 kts was the strongest wind reading, that was at federal point, north end of Blqd head. No hurricane force winds. Not in the Bahamas, not among the east coast. The cat 1 classification came from a few recon Measurement limited to the NE quadrant.

Bottom line they wanted to make sure people paid attention.

In post 101, that is a dock failure, not a surge. NO BOATS ON SHORE.
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Some reports coming in from my friends;

Bull River & HY80 in Savannah GA reported “light rain for about a hour. From about 11am too 3pm it was cloudy. Sun back out after 1500 local. Water up maybe an extra foot at high tide

Murrells InletSC reported No problems here, non event.

Beaufort Marine center. Inland from Beaufort NC reported the worst;

Some rain on & off. Some stiff wind. Good evening thunder shower.


I can only assume that big blob of rain finally came on shore north of the eye and made some kind of surge with wind up the Jersey coast.

This weather inland is beyond my reaches of contacts. Here is when we have to rely on the sad reporting of the local news and weather reporting. More or less similar to the FaceBook report we received earlier in this thread.

Down lines and power outages would be common in the first real weather that anybody has received in a while. Old limbs (damaged before?) and poorly maintained lines that can not be cleaned or serviced regularly would be downed by a nice squall.

No, this storm was a non event.

I have to report; One causality has been reported inland. No details at all on this.

I have two more contacts in NJ that I have not heard from. Not worth a call, waiting for an e-mail response that I just sent (just remembered them).

yep that has to be tornado. It s what happens here in Miami with Irma which passed 100 miles s weakening system. The 100+ boats sunk and the damage to piers was not consistent with the storm....

Ah, I understand now, False news to get peoples attention...
Then he next time NWS/NHC calls wolf ????

It would have been much better to explain that while this was a TS.... it had a large circulation that would take time to wind down, which could spawn tornadoes far away in bands and would have far reached effect. But that would mean trusting that the average person has an attention span long enough to listen. Very unlikely.

The damage has nothing to do with classification

educate yourself, it has everything to do with sustained winds at sea level... recon either use drop sonde or extrapolate from flight level winds... or in the absence of recon like when a storm is too far for recon to get in, they use satellite imagery to estimate the surface winds.

The surface wind estimate or observation determination the classification. Nothing else.

“The NHC and NWS as well as world organizations have criteria on which they decide. It's not on winds at ground level”

actually at the risk of stating the obvious... the N in NHC and NWS stand for “National”. No world. World is the WHO and we all know how that turned out

look up Saffir Simpson scale and see what it is based on.

Jax FL got some interesting weather this evening. From 1.75 to 2.25 inch hail storm from the west to mid town. Thousands with out electricity.
Another spot of Jax, a nice rain down pour, again from the west caved in a doughnut shop.
All else, damage up north from a fair tropical storm. Typical damage from such down pours once the mas of the rain came on shore.
Nobody has yet recorded Hurricane force winds up the US coast.

That is funny.
Nobody observed or recorded any hurricane force winds.