Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #193 (April 9 - 16, 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. Third, I goofed last week. TC-21S was
actually TC-20S, and TC Chloe was actually TC-21S. Special thanks to Roger
Edson of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center for catching this mistake.


WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #193 APRIL 9 - 16, 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 east-southeast with 35 kt winds. The storm continued this
track until it became extratropical near 21S 85E on 10 April.

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

Possible Tropical Cyclone: A low pressure system with some tropical cyclone
characteristics formed near 19S 161W on 9 April. This system moved south
through 10 April, then turned southwest and lost all tropical characteristics
near 26S 162W on 11 April.

The Fiji Meteorological Service issued one advisory on this system as a
"shallow depression". Maximum sustained winds were estimated at 30-35 kt
mainly due to interaction with a strong high pressure system to the south.
Ship FNIK reported 32 kt sustained winds at 0000 UTC 10 April.


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