Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #195 (April 23 - 30, 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: The hrd-tardis is still down pending its new Internet
address. For the time being, please send any e-mail about the summary to
jbe...@delphi.com. Second, thanks to everyone who signed up for the summary
during the AMS Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology Conference last week, and
thanks to all who attended. Third, I apologize for the goofed-up Author's
Notes in the last summary.


WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #195 APRIL 23 - 30, 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.):

Tropical Storm Chuck: Tropical Depression 2W formed near 5N 166E on 28
April. Initially moving north, the system turned west-northwest the next day
as it reached tropical storm intensity. Chuck drifted west on 30 April, and
at the end of the summary period it was at its peak intensity of 35 kt.

The NOAA research ship Discoverer reported 25 kt sustained winds as Chuck
was first developing. Although the storm formed in the Marshall Islands,
there are no other reports of significant weather, damage, or casualties at
this time.

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