Hurricane Rita
September 22-25, 2005



WEMITE #1: Orange County Municipal Airport, Orange TX
WEMITE #2: Southeast Texas Regional Airport, Port Arthur, TX
PMT White: Chambers County Municipal Airport, Anahuac, TX
PMT Clear: Winnie-Stowall Municipal Airport, Winnie, TX
PMT Black: Orange County Municipal Airport, Orange, TX

Deployment Team

John Schroeder, PhD (Principal Investigator)
Ian Giammanco (Field Coordinator)
Mike Efferson
Brian Hirth
Kirsten Orwig
Maribel Martinez
Eric Thoen


Hurricane Rita Deployment Summary

Deployment Notes: WEMITE #1 did not collect a complete data record due to a power regulator failure well before the arrival of peak winds. PMT Black was severe damaged by debris impact and did not collect a complete data record. The tower was impacted by a 20 ft by 12 ft hangar door. The data presented in the data plots section and the table below are not standardized to represent constant open terrain exposure; however the calculated roughness values were at or below the open terrain exposure category for the Winnie, Anahuac, and Port Arthur deployment sites. Please see our data disclaimer .

Tower: GPS Coordinates Peak Sustained Wind Speed (1-min) Peak Gust Wind Speed (3-sec):
WEMITE #2 29.956 N
94.016 W		 93.4 mph
 116.1 mph
PMT Clear 29.814 N
94.432 W 		70.2 mph
85.9 mph
PMT White 29.767 N
94.660 W 		62.2 mph
84.8 mph
PMT Black* 30.070 N
93.797 W 		65.4 mph
87.8 mph
*incomplete data record





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DATA PLOTS


TOWER LOCATION MAP


PORT ARTHUR DEPLOYMENT SITE AERIAL PHOTO


WINNIE DEPLOYMENT SITE AERIAL PHOTO


ANAHUAC DEPLOYMENT SITE AERIAL PHOTO


ORANGE DEPLOYMENT SITE AERIAL PHOTO


PMT BLACK DAMAGE PHOTOS