Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #192 (April 2- 9, 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.

Author's Notes: First, the hrd-tardis is down as it is being moved. It will
have a new system name when it is restarted. For the time being, please send
any e-mail about the summary to jbe...@delphi.com. Second, for those of you
who are coming to the AMS Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology conference in
Miami next week, I'll see you there.

WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #192 APRIL 2 - 9, 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 Marlene (TC-19S): At the start of the summary period,
Marlene was moving south with 85 kt winds. Marlene continued to drift south
until 5 April, when it became stationary near 18N 69E. The cyclone reached a
peak intensity of 125 kt on 3 April. Marlene drifted west on 6 April as it
weakened to a tropical storm, then it turned southeast the next day. Marlene
tracked east-southeast on 8-9 April, and at the end of the summary period
maximum sustained winds were down to 35 kt.

Tropical Cyclone 20S: Tropical Cyclone 20S formed near 11S 135E on 3 April.
Initially moving west, the system tracked west-southwest near the north coast
of Australia on 4 April. The cyclone turned southwest on 5 April due to inter-
action with the developing Tropical Cyclone Chloe. It made landfall over
northwest Australia and dissipated later that day. Maximum sustained winds in
this system were estimated at 25-30 kt. There are no reports of damage, casu-
alties, or significant weather at this time.

Tropical Cyclone Chloe (TC-21S): Tropical Cyclone Chloe formed near 11S
121E on 5 April. Initially moving southwest, the system turned southeast the
next day while rapidly reaching hurricane strength. Chloe continued southeast
on 7 April as it reached a peak intensity of 125 kt. The storm made landfall
over northwest Australia on 8 April and dissipated over land later that day.

There are no observations available from the landfall region. Ship MSET
reported 58 kt sustained winds and a 998.5 mb pressure at 0000 UTC 6 April.
the automated station at Browse Reef, Australia reported 39 kt winds at 2100
UTC the same day. Higher winds probably occurred at this station as the eye
of Chloe passed nearby while it wasn't reporting. There are no reports of dam-
age or casualties at this time.

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

Possible Tropical Cyclone: The Fiji Meteorological Service issued one
advisory on a "shallow depression" near 19S 161W on 9 April. This system
drifted south through the end of the summary period with 30-35 kt winds.


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