Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #205 (July 2 - 9, 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.


WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #205 JULY 2 - 9, 1995

North Atlantic Basin:

Tropical Storm Barry: Tropical Depression Two formed near 31N 71W on 6
July from a non-tropical low pressure system. Initially moving south, the
cyclone turned northeast and reached tropical storm strength the next day.
Barry reached a peak intensity of 50 kt late on 7 July, then maintained 45-50
kt winds through the rest of its life. The storm assumed a north-northeast
track on 8 July and continued this until it moved into eastern Nova Scotia,
Canada, late on 9 July. At the end of the summary period, Barry was losing
tropical characteristics over Nova Scotia.

A Canadian automated station reported 50 kt sustained winds at 80 m
elevation at 1800 UTC 9 July. Buoy 44142 reported a minimum pressure of
996.6 mb at 1300 UTC the same day. The minimum pressure measured by recon-
aissance aircraft was 997 mb on 8 July. There are no reports of damage or
casualties at this time.

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

Hurricane Barbara: Tropical Depression 3E formed near 12N 104W on 7 July.
The system was initially moving west-northwest, and this motion continued
through the end of the summary period. The cyclone reached tropical storm
strength on 8 July and hurricane strength on 9 July. At the end of the
summary period, Barbara was packing 75 kt winds.

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.

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