The site records the wind strength of hurricane and tropical storm winds, and strike probabilities.
Hurricane force winds extended 35 miles (55 kilometers) from the storm's center, while tropical storm force winds reached up 140 miles (225 kilometers).
Earlier in the day, the storm had exhibited winds of 115 miles per hour, which was already below the 130 miles-per-hour winds of a typical Category 3 storm and nowhere near the 156 miles-per-hour winds of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
And storm force winds continued to batter Shetland throughout Saturday, with the road through Sandsayre in Sandwick flooded.
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As it strengthened, Irene also became larger, with tropical storm force winds extending 185 miles northeast of its center.
Tropical-storm force winds extended 175 miles out from the center and should reach the U.S. coast by Sunday night.
To the south, a severe storm with winds approaching 80 mph rolled into Moore, where a top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado killed 24 on May 20.
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The 1999 storm had winds clocked at 300 mph, according to the weather service website, and it destroyed or damaged more than 8, 000 homes, killing at least two people.
In the Adairsville storm, winds caused significant damage to a motel and a manufacturing plant, according to Craig Millsap, fire chief and interim emergency management director for Bartow County.
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Its hurricane-force winds extended out 45 miles (75 kilometers) and tropical storm-force winds extended 140 miles (220 kilometers) from its center into south Florida.
By Saturday night, tropical-storm-force winds, at 39 mph or stronger, could be felt up to 140 miles for the storm's center about 260 miles south-southwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and 435 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.
Emergency services have been dealing with a number of fallen trees, and power cables brought down by the storm-force winds.
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The NOAA's National Hurricane Center said Katrina was a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of about 160 mph as it approached the Gulf Coast.
As is, the Miami-based weather center reported in its 8 p.m. advisory that the storm had regular winds of 60 mph and even more potent gusts.
Spokesman Tim Dugan said Friday that the Sagamore and Bourne bridges will be closed if the storm has sustained winds of at least 70 mph or conditions become unsafe.
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Harvey struck the coast of Belize on Sunday as a tropical storm, with top winds near 60 mph.
Taransay has no trees from September to May and is buffeted by 100 mph winds and storm force seas.
Massachusetts, which sustained some of the storm's heaviest winds and snowfall, continued to suffer the worst of the outages on Monday.
Storm waves and high winds have washed away thousands of tonnes of beach sand in front of the launching area for a Norfolk lifeboat.
The storm has brought high winds and heavy rain, toppling trees and power lines through the region and cutting electricity to about 200, 000 homes.
While covering the landfall impact in the Philippines, he was one of the first international broadcasters to report that the storm's intense winds made it the strongest typhoon to make landfall on any landmass in recorded history.
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In the aftermath of Katrina, the Saints were forced to flee New Orleans -- like almost every resident of the city -- when the storm's blistering winds destroyed nearly 70 percent of the stadium's roof.
Once a Category 5 storm, Katrina had weakened to a Category 3 storm with 127 mph winds when it made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005, between Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the mouth of Mississippi River.
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Simple: unusually strong winds during the storm, up to 70 mph (112 kph), knocked down huge trees everywhere.
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The warning means tropical storm conditions, including sustained winds of at least 39 mph, were expected in the next 24 hours.
Along a path pocked by shattered homes and businesses, the storm unleashed tornadoes and dangerous winds, easily flipping cars and trucks in Georgia.
At the time it came down, the weather was good with no storm rolling through or significant winds, added fellow police Constable Harrison Ford.
There's a real possibility of flooding, storm surge, and high winds.
The surge then acts as an elevated platform on which the winds of the storm whip up waves that can be reach much higher than usual.
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