| 31. | The eye wall of Hurricane Erin made land at 1 : 11 a . m . just south of Vero Beach.
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| 32. | But woe to the people caught in another hurricane feature, usually dozens of miles from the center : the eye wall.
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| 33. | The eye wall descends almost to the sea surface, a distance of nearly 45, 000 feet ( 13 800 meters ).
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| 34. | As a result of the high wind and eye wall that passed directly through the city, power outages were a major problem.
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| 35. | At this stage Barometer and wind observations from the Meteorological service in Tonga suggested that the cyclone had a double eye wall.
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| 36. | :Also notice that the yacht would have had to pass through the eye wall, which is absolutely the worst part of a hurricane.
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| 37. | The eye wall is the tight, circular boundary of wind and cloud that separates the eye from the swirling body of the storm.
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| 38. | This interfered with the functioning of the storm, inhibiting its ability to vent vertical winds from the top of its chimneylike eye wall.
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| 39. | A hurricane's eye is ringed by the eye wall, a ribbon of intense wind and rain which harbor much of the storm's fury.
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| 40. | There it rises in the eye wall, while some of it also gets short-circuited into one of the spiral rainbands farther from the hurricane center.
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