Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #174 (November 27 - December 4, 1994)

[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 #174 NOVEMBER 27 - DECEMBER 4, 1994

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.

Special North Indian Ocean Update: Tropical Cyclone 05A: Late press reports
indicate that 75 people were killed in northeastern Somalia. In addition,
50 more people were reported killed due to flooding in the Red Sea port of
Djibouti as the remains of the system moved over that area.

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

At the start of the summary period, Albertine was moving south-southwest
over the open Indian Ocean with 115 kt winds. This turned out to be the
peak intensity. The storm turned southwest while weakening on 28 November,
with the track and weakening continuing the next day. The cyclone turned south
on 30 November as it weakened to a tropical storm. The southward motion con-
tinued until the system became extratropical near 26S 62E on 2 December.

Albertine affected Rodrigues Island during its weakening stage. The island
reported 48 kt sustained winds at 0600 UTC 30 November and a minimum pressure
of 1000.8 mb 6 hr earlier. In addition, I inadvertently omitted some signif-
icant ship reports from last week's summary. Ship DDOJ reported 52 kt winds
and a pressure of 998.5 mb at 0000 UTC 25 November, while ship DCLX reported
45 kt winds at 1800 UTC 23 November. Although Albertine affected Diego Garcia
and Rodrigues (as well as these ships), there are no reports of damage or
casualties at this time.

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, it was drawn from operational warnings that 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.