Hurricane Hernan, September 1, 2002

  • Released Tuesday, September 3, 2002
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Hurricane Hernan located 625 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Hernan has maximum sustained winds of 130 knots with gusts to 160 knots. The overall structure of the storm is shown in this animation with rain amounts being shown through color.Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.

Hurricane Hernan was classified as a Category 3 hurricane. This movie zooms down to Hernan and reveals its underlying rain structure. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain or more, green shows 1.0 inches of rain and red shows 2.0 inches or more.

Peel away the clouds to reveal Hurricane Hernans rain structure. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain per hour, green is 1.0 inches of rain per hour and red is 2.0 or higher.

Peel away the clouds to reveal Hurricane Hernans rain structure. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain per hour, green is 1.0 inches of rain per hour and red is 2.0 or higher.

Hurricane Hernans rain structure on September 1, 2002. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain per hour, green is 1.0 inches of rain per hour and red is 2.0 or higher

Hurricane Hernans rain structure on September 1, 2002. Yellow represents 0.5 inches of rain per hour, green is 1.0 inches of rain per hour and red is 2.0 or higher

Video slate image reads "Hurricane Hernan September 1, 2002".

Video slate image reads "Hurricane Hernan September 1, 2002".

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Tuesday, September 3, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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