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PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT - HURRICANE IRENE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
430 PM FRI OCT 22 1999

HIGHEST WIND... IN KTS  

LOCATION            SUSTAINED   DATE/TIME   PEAK        DATE/TIME
                    DDFF                    DDFF
                       
ORLANDO (MCO)       0133        16/1553Z    0142        16/1553Z

DAYTONA BEACH (DAB) 0236        16/1753Z    0149        16/1853Z

MELBOURNE ASOS      0247        16/1323Z    0359        16/1323Z

MELBOURNE (MLB)     0240        16/1050Z    0258        16/1050Z    

PATRICK AFB (COF)   0350        16/1048Z    0359        16/1100Z 
(UNOFFICIAL ASOS)                          

VERO BEACH (VRB)    0539        16/0910Z    0362        16/1250Z

FT. PIERCE (FPR)    0337        16/0753Z    0745        16/0553Z

SHUTTLE LANDING                             0462        16/1550Z
SITE (TTS)

BUOY 41009          0445        16/1100Z    0460        16/1100Z


LOWEST PRESSURE IN MILLIBARS

STATION              MILLIBARS   DATE/TIME
ORLANDO (MCO)        1000.2 MB   16/2053Z
DAYTONA BEACH (DAB)  997.2 MB    16/2353Z
MELBOURNE ASOS (MLB) 993.9 MB    16/1650Z
FT. PIERCE (FPR)     989.1 MB    16/1053Z

BUOY 41009           984.8 MB    15/0900Z


RAINFALL...(STORM TOTALS)

JACKSONVILLE (JAX)  
ORLANDO (MCO)        1.70  
SANFORD (SFB)        NOT AVAILABLE (TIPPING BUCKET OTS)
MELBOURNE (MLB)      5.36
DAYTONA BEACH (DAB)  3.87


STORM TIDES...TIDE GAUGE AT THE PORT CANAVERAL ENTRANCE REPORTED A 
SURGE OF 2 TO 2.5 FEET.  

BEACH EROSION...SIGNIFICANT WAVE ACTION BATTERED AN ALREADY WEAK 
DUNE LINE AND PRODUCED SUBSTANTIAL BEACH EROSION ONCE AGAIN. IN 
MARTIN COUNTY FROM 4 TO 8 FEET BEACH FRONT WAS LOST WITH AN  
ESTIMATED COST OF $4 MILLION. OTHER DOLLAR ESTIMATES INCLUDE $8 
MILLION IN BREVARD COUNTY... $7 MILLION IN VOLUSIA COUNTY AND $2 
MILLION IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY.

FLOODING...WITH ABOUT 9 INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER MARTIN COUNTY THEY 
REPORTED FROM 3 TO 4 FEET OF WATER OVER MOST ROADS IN THE SOUTH PART 
OF THE COUNTY. ABOUT 60 HOMES WERE FLOODED. PORTIONS OF 155 ROADS 
WERE CLOSED DURING THE STORM. IN ST LUCIE COUNTY 200 HOUSES WERE 
FLOODED.  FLOODING WAS WIDESPREAD BUT MINOR IN THE REMAINING COASTAL 
COUNTIES. 

TORNADOES...NONE

STORM EFFECTS...IN MARTIN COUNTY 15 HOMES HAD MAJOR WIND DAMAGE AND 
ONE MOBILE HOME WAS DESTROYED. ABOUT THREE THOUSAND TREES WERE BLOWN 
DOWN. IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY 40 HOMES RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE AND TWO HAD 
MAJOR DAMAGE. BREVARD COUNTY REPORTED 1074 HOMES WITH MINOR DAMAGE 
AND 17 WITH MAJOR DAMAGE. ABOUT 450 MOBILE HOMES HAD MINOR DAMAGE 
AND 15 RECEIVED MAJOR DAMAGE.  ABOUT 555 COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS HAD 
MINOR DAMAGE. MOST OCEAN FRONT HOTELS HAD WATER DAMAGE WHEN WIND 
BLEW RAINWATER IN WINDOWS. A LARGE BARGE WAS BLOWN INTO AND DAMAGED 
US HIGHWAY 528 CAUSEWAY NEAR CAPE CANAVERAL. MARLIN STADIUM WAS 
DAMAGED. TOTAL BREVARD COUNTY DAMAGE WAS OVER $20 MILLION. SIMILAR 
DAMAGE OCCURRED IN VOLUSIA COUNTY WITH A TOTAL DAMAGE ESTIMATE OF 
$16 MILLION. 


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