Hurricane Jeanne

Post Landfall 2 | Summary
Posting Date: September 27, 2004, 10:00:00 AM

As of 2:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, September 27, Jeanne has been downgraded to a tropical depression. The center of the system is currently located about 35 miles south of Macon, Georgia, and the remnants of Jeanne should exit the North Carolina or Virginia coast sometime Wednesday morning. Jeanne led a long and destructive life. After cutting across Puerto Rico as a tropical storm on September 16, Jeanne briefly strengthened to Category 1 hurricane status as it approached the Dominican Republic, but weakened again as it interacted with the terrain of Hispaniola. Despite its diminished winds, however, Jeanne caused devastating floods in Haiti, killing more than 1,000 people. After meandering in the open Atlantic for several days, Jeanne – once again a hurricane – took aim at the Bahamas. Jeanne cut across Abaco as a strong Category 2 hurricane, but strengthened to a Category 3 storm as it approached Grand Bahama and Freeport, the country’s second largest commercial center. Jeanne’s 115 mph winds ripped off roofs and caused structural damage to both residential and commercial structures across the island. Hurricane Jeanne made landfall near Stuart, Florida at 11:50 p.m. Saturday with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. Hurricane Jeanne’s landfall point and track across Florida were very similar to that of Hurricane Frances which damaged a large swath of the state almost three weeks ago. Jeanne brought hurricane force winds far inland and was still a Category 1 storm as it brushed just east of Tampa on Florida’s west coast. By 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, Jeanne had been downgraded to a tropical storm. AIR will shortly dispatch a post-disaster survey team to areas affected by Jeanne. We expect to find significant damage, including structural damage in coastal areas, especially to residential buildings and mobile homes. Damage to the roofs, cladding and windows of commercial structures can also be expected. Moderate damage is likely along the length of Jeanne’s path toward Tampa, with minor damage as far north as Georgia. These additional losses in Georgia are reflected in the loss estimates available in this posting. The AIR tropical cyclone team has run new scenarios using the most current information about Jeanne’s meteorological parameters and actual track through the Bahamas and the U.S. Five scenarios are now posted on the scenarios page of this website, where clients can view wind speed and loss maps. In addition, event sets are available for download. Please note that the losses provided in this posting are for the U.S. and the Bahamas combined. This will be our final posting on Hurricane Jeanne.

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Posting Date: September 27, 2004, 10:00:00 AM