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Hurricane Ivan Makes Landfall Near Mobile, Alabama

16-Sep-04

Hurricane Ivan made landfall on September 16, 2004, near Mobile, Alabama early this morning. Sustained winds at landfall were approximately 130 mph, making the storm a CAT 3 at landfall. View NOAA Advisory

Winds quickly decayed to 115 mph sustained. View NOAA Advisory

The storm is currently traveling inland at approximately 14 mph. Damaging winds are expected to extend inland into Alabama. (see figure)

The storm made landfall to the east of Mobile Bay (Mobile, Alabama) between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. The areas of highest winds include Baldwin county in Alabama, and Santa Rosa and Escambia counties in Florida. Coastal flooding is also expected in surrounding coastal areas. There are two sets of instructions.

Instructions: Add New Events

For desktop (USWIND) users, this event can be added in as a "User Defined Event." Two SQL scripts are attached, one for Hurricane Charley (August) and one for Hurricane Frances (September).

These will add the events into the "User Defined" groups.

For WORLDCATenterprise" users, the event is added to the "Scenario Event" portion of the Event Analysis. There are two SQL scripts attached for this as well, one for Hurricane Charley and one for Hurricane Frances. These 'scenarios' will estimate damage for the entire track of these events as they traversed the Caribbean Islands. When including damages in the islands ex-US, these events lasted longer than 72 hours, which is a common reinstatement period. If you are interested in how to run this event on your portfolio to correctly estimate losses within reinstatement periods, please contact EQECAT client support.

Instructions: USWIND Users

  1. If USWIND is running, exit the program.
  2. Go to the computer where the EQECAT Database is running.
  3. Click on the Start button.
  4. Select Programs\Sybase SQL Anywhere 7\Adaptive Server Anywhere 7\Interactive SQL. DBISQL will start.
  5. Click on the "ODBC DataSource Name" Radio Button. In the combo box, select Worldcat_Server and click on OK.
  6. Open the file "USWIND_Ivan.sql" with notepad, and paste the contents into the ISQL window.
  7. Hit the ">" button on the menu bar. A user defined storm with the name Ivan has now been defined.
  8. Exit Interactive SQL.
  9. Restart USWIND.
  10. Open the portfolio of interest and select HAZARD\PORTFOLIO\SCENARIO STORMS\SCENARIO STORM SELECTOR. Click on the User Defined radio button and click OK. Select Ivan from the list of user defined storms.
  11. Run the desired reports.

Instructions: WORLDCATenterprise Users

** Please Note: This script only needs to be run once for the server. All analyses after this will include this event.

  1. Go to the computer where the EQECAT Master Database is running.
  2. Click on the Start button.
  3. Select Programs\Sybase SQL Anywhere 7\Adaptive Server Anywhere 7\Interactive SQL. DBISQL will start.
  4. Click on the "ODBC DataSource Name" Radio Button. In the combo box, select Worldcat_Server and click on OK.
  5. Open the file "WCe_Ivan.sql" with notepad, and paste the contents into the ISQL window.
  6. Hit the ">" button on the menu bar. A user defined storm with the name Charley has now been defined.
  7. Exit Interactive SQL.
  8. Run the WORLDCATenterprise as usual. Go to the Portfolio Event by Event Tab, and choose a new analysis. To run more efficiently, filter to storms in Florida only.
  9. Run the desired reports.

Damage and Landfall Location

Hurricane Ivan - September 16, 2004

Hurricane Ivan - September 16, 2004

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