United States went through a tense moment #, moreover, continues passando.Nestes last day the Americans were on full alert because of the passageways of Hurricane Irene, which also left trail of destruction across the country. But remember that Brazil, more precisely Santa Catarina also had his moments when supertensos # 2004 passed in the first hurricane, which left no soh Brazil, the United States but also on alert, here's a story about what it was when it happened , and the damage caused by Hurricane Catarina.
HURRICANE CATARINA: HURRICANE or EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE
29/mar/2004 - 12h56 - U.S. scientists, specialized in analysis and prediction of phenomena is no more severe doubt and say that the extratropical cyclone Catarina, which hit the southern region of the country was in fact a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir- Simpson, which measures the intensity of the winds of hurricanes. This is the first hurricane of Catherine extratropical known and also the first to reach Brazil.
29/mar/2004 - 7:20 a.m. - The extratropical cyclone Catarina, which hit the south of the country on Sunday, made with the intensity of a hurricane. According to authorities, his passing has left at least three dead and 100,000 homes destroyed. The city of Torres is in a state of emergency. The population makes lines to receive tiles, distributed by the Civil Defense. More than 20 000 houses were destroyed. The images shown on television impress the experts. According to scientists at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, the images displayed Catherine must have hit the coast with winds of 170 km / h. Local residents, too scared, they said that what they saw will not soon forget. According to GloboNews, the Civil Defense Torres had proposed the evacuation of the city, but the minister Ciro Gomes, National Integration, not authorized, saying that the winds would be weaker than anticipated. Were not.
Cyclone Catarina dissipates and leaves trail of destruction 28-Mar-2004 - 23.15 The extratropical cyclone Catarina, which hit the south of the country this Sunday is already dissipated. During his tenure, Catherine killed two people and damaged more than 30,000 homes. Throughout the morning, winds up to 150 km / h reached the border between the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, from Laguna, SC to Torres, RS. Forty municipalities of Santa Catarina have been achieved. Most are punished Marazion, Cloudy, Meleiro, Araranguá, Arroyo Silva, dingy, and South Imbé Wilden. The storm also passed through the city of Sao Joaquim, in the highland plateau, where it caused problems. The city of Santa Catarina Crickhowell was especially hard hit. According to information from the JB Online, about 1.2 million people were displaced. The emergency services are struggling to house them. More than 100 homes were roofless and 20 fell. Across the region 20,000 homes were affected. The power grid was destroyed transformers 250 and a thousand poles knocked down by wind. Power is being restored gradually.
Catherine deals 2 damage and many deaths 28-Mar-2004 - 9:15 a.m. The extratropical cyclone Catarina began to lose strength, but caused extensive damage in Santa Catarina, where two people died and several were left homeless in the state. Seven fishermen were missing. According to the Civil Defense said, Torres, in RS, one child died due to collapse of a house. BR 101 in the cyclone caused the death of a man who was inside a car when he was hit by a tree. The BR 101 is banned from dingy and Crickhowell. The situation is critical and Araranguá between Crickhowell. The Civil Defense asks that drivers avoid using the road.
Four boats, with about seven crew members adrift are each 50 to 10 km from the coast of Sal Arroyo Civil Defense of the State of SC confirmed that one of them turned. According to Globo News, 200 houses are roofless or completely destroyed in Araranguá, SC. The municipalities most affected are Araranguá Brook Silva and dingy. According to Epagri / Climerh, Catherine begins to lose strength, but caution should still cause strong winds and rains throughout the highlands and south coast of Santa Catarina and also in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul.
The cyclone which formed off the coast of southern Brazil magrugada reached in today's southern Santa Catarina and northern Rio Grande do Sul According to information Globonews throughout the morning winds up to 150 km / h reached the border SC and RS, from Laguna (SC) by Torres (RS). The extratropical Alpha 1-T, called "Catherine", is classified by the NHC (National Hurricane Center, USA) as a Category 1 hurricane (with winds between 120 and 150 km / h), but the classification has changed due to temperature in the center of the storm. The waves caused by Catarina reached peaks of up to five feet tall on the high seas. As reported RBS TV, with winds up to 90 km / h hit the Cape region of Santa Marta on the evening of Saturday. On the beaches of the south, the winds reached a maximum speed of 50 km / h with gusts up to 75 km / h, with waves up to 3 meters tall. Catherine should gradually lose intensity during the next few hours, but you need constant monitoring because of potential changes and mainly because it is the first occurrence of this phenomenon in the South Atlantic
Catherine extratropical cyclone is expected to reach southern Brazil with gale force 27-Mar-2004 - 18h00 - The extratropical storm Alpha-1-T, now dubbed Catarina Santa Catarina by scientists, is currently 240 km of the coast of Torres in the state of Santa Catarina and should reach the coast within hours. According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, NHC, the storm is considered a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which measures wind speeds of hurricanes and from 1 to 5. At 17h29 the storm was producing sustained winds of 150 km / h with gusts reaching up to 178 km / h. The barometric pressure in the eye of the storm was estimated at 980 millibars NHC.
Classification divides scientists Sort Catarina Catarina extratropical storm or hurricane can be nearly impossible. "We are still debating whether or not a hurricane, but according to our estimates, it sure is," said Wally Barnes, meteorologist at the National Hurricane Institute of America, based in Miami.
The apparent formation is unprecedented category 1 hurricane has formed about 442 km off the southern coast of Brazil, surprising forecasters - who have never seen such a phenomenon occurring in the region. Satellite images show a large spiral, about the size of Uruguay near the coast of Santa Catarina. "The feature, by satellite photo, is a hurricane because it has a well defined eye, the movement is circular and is totally detached from the cold front," said meteorologist Marlene Odette Chiesa, National Institute of Meteorology in Brasilia. "If we were to set this sitema according to the temperature of the sea, he could not be formed, especially because we fall. So, would not be a hurricane. Depending on your point of view of analysis, we classify as extratropical cyclone or a hurricane, but at present we have a final, "he added. Both Barnes and Chiesa confirmed astonishment at the discovery of the storm that, if declared a hurricane in fact, represent an unprecedented event in the South Atlantic since the climate satellite monitoring began in 1960. "We have a total divergence estimates of the phenomenon because it is something we've never seen before. It is quite historic in that sense. The Brazilians have never had this experience, "said Barnes.
