Hurricane Opal - Preliminary Report

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Originator: National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

Publication_Date: 19951101

Title: Hurricane Opal - Preliminary Report

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Publication_Place: Asheville, NC

Publisher: National Climatic Data Center

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Online_Linkage: http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00492-PUB-A0001

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Hurricane Opal - Preliminary Report is a technical report available from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This report deals with the US landfall of Hurricane Opal, the 15th named storm in an amazingly active 1995 Atlantic tropical storm season. Included are a short narrative with some of the details of Opal and its aftermath, rainfall/wind tables and maps, satellite images, and NEXRAD radar images. Storm surge, rainfall amounts, peak wind gusts, and other information are based on preliminary data. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: technical report CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: Ground Condition Fees, if applicable, are displayed on the web page for obtaining these data; fees are also dependent on customer order specifications. Please contact NCDC for further information on fees and terms for retrieving these data.

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Beginning_Date: 19951003

Ending_Date: 19951006

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Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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West_Bounding_Coordinate: -93.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -83.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 50.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 19.0

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Place_Keyword: CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Access_Constraints: ACCESS CONSTRAINTS: None DISTRIBUTION LIABILITY: Every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of current NOAA quality control procedures. NOAA can only certify that the data provided to its customers is an authentic copy of the records which were accepted for inclusion in NOAA archives. NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.

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