Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #203 (June 18 - 25, 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)

Special Announcement: Text copies of past weekly summaries can now be
retrieved via ftp from squall.met.fsu.edu. They can be found in the directory
pub/jack.

Author's note: New information has been received on several June cyclones.
Special thanks to Dr. Mark Lander of the University of Guam for providing
additional surface data on Tropical Storm Eli.

WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #203 JUNE 18 - 25, 1995

North Atlantic Basin: No tropical cyclones.

Special Hurricane Allison Update (Summaries #200-201): Trailing bands from
Allison produced heavy rains over western Cuba. Press reports indicate that
one person was killed due to flooding.

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

Hurricane Adolph: At the start of the summary period, Adolph was moving
northwest with 95 kt winds. Rapid weakening occurred, with Adolph dropping
to tropical storm status on 19 June and to tropical depression status the
next day. The storm turned west on 19 June, then it stalled near 18N 111W
the next day. Adolph dissipated near 18N 112W on 21 June. Although rain bands
and high surf affected the Mexican coast, there are no reports of damage or
casualties at this time.

Central North Pacific Basin (180 Deg. W to 140 Deg. W): No tropical cyclones.

Western North Pacific Basin (W of 180 Deg.): No tropical cyclones.

Special Tropical Storm Deanna/Auring Update (Summaries #200-201): Press
reports indicate that Deanna/Auring caused heavy rains over the Philippines
during its early development. These caused mudslides near the Mayon Volcano
that buried at least 140 homes. There are still no reports of casualties.

Special Tropical Storm Eli Update (Summaries #200-201): In addition to the
data in the previous summaries, Apra Harbor on Guam reported 34 kt sustained
winds with gusts to 48 kt at 0600 UTC 4 June. The minimum pressure was 1003.3
mb. There are still no reports of damage or casualties.

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

Past text copies of the Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary can be obtained via e-
mail or by ftp (see announcement above). Please send an e-mail message to Jack
Beven if you are interested.

A digitized version of the weekly summary with DMSP polar orbiting imagery
is available over the World Wide Web. This is courtesy of Greg Deuel at the
DMSP satellite archive. It can be found at: http://web.ngdc.noaa.gov/ under
the Weekly Updated Items section of the DMSP Satellite Archive home page.

For more information on the imagery and how to retrieve the digitized
summary and images by other methods, please contact Greg Deuel at Internet
address:

g...@po-box.ngdc.noaa.gov