Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #207 (July 16 - 23, 1995)

[Jack Beven]

This report is compiled from warnings issued by:
National Hurricane Center Central Pacific Hurricane Center
Naval Pacific Meteor./Ocean. Center Fiji Meteorological Service
Meteorological Service of New Zealand Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Japanese Meteorological Agency Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Philippine Meteorological Service Royal Observatory of Hong Kong
Indian Meteorological Department Reunion Meteorological Service
Mauritius Meteorological Service
(others may be added as they become available)


WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #207 JULY 16 - 23, 1995

North Atlantic Basin:

Tropical Storm Chantal: At the start of the summary period, Chantal was
moving north through the western Atlantic with 55 kt winds. The storm
continued north on 17 July as it reached a peak intensity of 60 kt. It then
maintained 50-55 kt winds for the rest of its life. Chantal turned northeast
on 18 July and accelerated the next day. The cyclone became extratropical
near 47N 47W on 20 July.

There are many ship reports of tropical storm-force winds associated with
Chantal. Ship WVEZ reported 50 kt winds and a pressure of 1005 mb at 0000 UTC
17 July. Ship ELRE5 reported 45 kt sustained winds at 1200 UTC 19 July.

Eastern North Pacific Basin (E of 140 Deg. W):

Hurricane Cosme: Tropical Depression 4E formed near 17N 109W on 17 July.
The system was initially moving west-northwest, and this motion continued
through 19 July. The depression reached tropical storm strength on 18 July
and a peak intensity of 65 kt on 19 July. Cosme turned west on 20 July as
it weakened to a tropical storm, and this motion continued as it weakened to
a depression the next day. The system dissipated near 21N 126W on 22 July.
Although Cosme passed near Socorro Island as it was developing, there are
no reports of damage, casualties, or significant weather.

Central North Pacific Basin (180 Deg. W to 140 Deg. W):

Tropical Storm Barbara: At the start of the summary period, ex-hurricane
Barbara was moving west across 140W with 40 kt winds. Barbara continued west
while weakening to a depression on 17 July, and the system dissipated the
next day near 17N 145W.

Western North Pacific Basin (W of 180 Deg.):

Typhoon Faye: Tropical Depression 5W formed near 15N 142E on 16 July. The
cyclone initially moved west-northwest, and this motion continued on 17 July
as it reached tropical storm strength. Faye turned west-northwest on 18 July,
and this motion continued the next day as it reached typhoon strength. The
typhoon turned northwest on 20 July and north-northwest on 21 July. Faye
passed through the Ryu-kyu Islands into the East China Sea on 21 July. The
system turned north-northeast on 22 July as it reached a peak intensity of 95
kt. The storm then moved north into the southeastern Korean peninsula on 23
July with winds near 90 kt. Faye then moved north-northeast into the Sea of
Japan, and at the end of the summary period it was continuing this track with
65 kt winds.

Faye affected the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, and the Korean pen-
insula. The western part of the eye passed over Japanese buoy 22001, which
reported a minimum pressure of 957.9 mb at 0600 UTC 22 July and 66 kt sus-
tained winds 2 hr later. Yosu, South Korea, reported 60 kt sustained winds and
a 976.7 mb pressure at 0600 UTC 23 July as Faye passed to the east. Sanchon,
South Korea, reported a minimum pressure of 977 mb at 0856 UTC the same day as
Faye passed just to the west. Maximum winds were 40 kt with gusts to 58 kt at
0735 UTC. Fukue, Japan, reported a 76 kt gust and a pressure of 988 mb at
0000 UTC 23 July, while Kumejima in the Ryu-kyus reported a gust to 65 kt and
a pressure of 986 mb at 2200 UTC 21 July. In addition, Ship ZCAZ7 reported 65
kt winds at 1200 UTC 21 July.

Press reports indicated that Faye may be the strongest typhoon to strike
South Korea in almost 40 years. Currently, 22 people are known dead with 22
others missing. In addition, a freighter sank off the coast of southwest Japan
on 23 July while Faye was in the area with 3 killed and 2 missing. It is
likely but not certain this was due to Faye. There are no reports of damage
or casualties from Japan at this time.

North Indian Ocean Basin: No tropical cyclones.

South Indian Ocean Basin (W of 135 Deg. E): No tropical cyclones.

South Pacific Ocean Basin (E of 135 Deg. E): No tropical cyclones.


Disclaimer: While an effort has been made to insure that this information is
as accurate as possible, this is a preliminary and unofficial report drawn
from operational warnings. Thus, it may not always agree with the best track
information published after the storm is over. Please address any questions
or comments on the information this week to Jack Beven at Internet addresses:

jbe...@delphi.com

or

be...@trdis.aoml.erl.gov

Past text copies of the Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary can be obtained via
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available by e-mail. Please send an e-mail message to Jack Beven if you are
interested.

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is available over the World Wide Web. This is courtesy of the DMSP satellite
archive. It can be found at: http://web.ngdc.noaa.gov/ under the Weekly
Tropical Cyclone Summary link of the DMSP Satellite Archive home page.

For more information on the imagery and how to retrieve the digitized
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