On 27/08/11 10:30, Fonzy wrote:
if a storm of that force happened in the carribean, would it have called
a tropical storm or a hurricane? if so what category would it be 1-5?


There were peak sustained winds recorded of 85 mph at Dover, but that
was a 10-minute mean. Hurricane categories are defined relative to a
1-minute mean, which is roughly 12% higher. That would give an estimated
1-minute sustained wind at Dover of 95 mph which is the top end of
Category 1. However, it is extremely unlikely that this would represent
the peak wind within the whole storm and thus it is virtually certain
that higher winds would have been measured, say, over the channel. It is
therefore likely that peak sustained wind speeds in the storm were
equivalent to a low-end category 2 hurricane.

There was a peak gust of 132 mph recorded on the Normandy coast in that
storm. That gust would likely be comparable to station data in the NHC
tropical cyclone reports for a landfalling category 2 hurricane.