Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #189 (March 12 - 19, 1995)

[Jack Beven]

This report is compiled from warnings issued by:
National Hurricane Center Central Pacific Hurricane Center
Naval Western Oceanography 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.

WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #189 MARCH 12 - 19, 1995

North Atlantic Basin: No tropical cyclones.

Eastern North Pacific Basin (E of 140 Deg. W): No tropical cyclones.

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

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

North Indian Ocean Basin: No tropical cyclones.

South Indian Ocean Basin (W of 135 Deg. E):

Tropical Cyclone Kylie (TC-17S): At the start of the summary period, Kylie
was moving south-southwest at its peak intensity of 80 kt. Kylie continued
south-southwest and passed over Reunion on 13 March as a rapidly weakening
tropical storm. The cyclone accelerated southwest and became extratropical
near 25S 53E on 14 March.

Reunion reported 29 kt sustained winds at 0600 UTC 13 March, with a minimum
pressure of 999.8 mb 6 hours earlier. Higher winds and lower pressures prob-
ably occurred between observations. There are no reports of damage or casual-
ties from either Reunion or St. Brandon, which Kylie affected earlier in its
life.

Tropical Cyclone Lidy: Tropical Cyclone Lidy formed near 17S 65E on 15
March. The system moved south-southwest through it life and dissipated near
21S 63E on 17 March. Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 30-35 kt.

South Pacific Ocean Basin (E of 135 Deg. E):

Tropical Cyclone 18P: Tropical Cyclone 18P formed near 24S 177W on 16
March. Moving southeast, it dissipated the next day near 29S 171W. Maximum
sustained winds in this short-lived system were estimated at 30 kt. The only
available observation is from ship C6MQ2, which reported 24 kt sustained winds
and a 1000.5 mb pressure at 0000 UTC 17 March.

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:

be...@hrd-tardis.nhc.noaa.gov or 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.