Unusual, Impressive, and Interesting Storms

[HurricaneBill]

In 1970, Super Typhoon Kate tracked at an unusually low latitude, striking the southern Philippines.



In 1989, Super Typhoon Gay made a rare Category 3 landfall on Thailand. Gay moved into the Bay of Bengal and reintensified, eventually making landfall on India as a Category 5.



It is rare for storms to make landfall on North Korea at typhoon strength. In 2000, Typhoon Prapiroon did.



In 2001, scientists were stunned when Typhoon Vamei formed closed to the equator.

[Chacor]

Kate was the second in a one-two punch for the Philippines too, after STY Joan.

Joan was a Cat 5, and both Joan and Kate combined to kill/leave missing over 1,500 people in a single week.

[KWT]

Kate was very far south for such a powerful storm, a category-4 below 5N!

[Chacor]

Intense TC Gamede, which holds rainfall world records, was an impressive storm.

[Cyclone1]

5.5 M? 18 feet of rain? 18 FEET?

[Cyclone1]

Olaf, 1997.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olaf_1997_track.png

The 1997 Pacific hurricane season is full of some of the most fascinating storms. Guillermo becoming a tropical storm again way far north after being all but written off. I seem to remember this happening with another storm too.

[HurricaneBill]

Kate was the second in a one-two punch for the Philippines too, after STY Joan.

Joan was a Cat 5, and both Joan and Kate combined to kill/leave missing over 1,500 people in a single week.

Actually, 1970 was not a good year for the Philippines. From the beginning of September to the end of November, the Philippines were struck by 4 super typhoons.

Super Typhoon Georgia (Category 5 140KT)


Super Typhoon Joan (Category 5 150KT)


Super Typhoon Kate (Category 4 130KT) (hit only 5 days after Joan)


Super Typhoon Patsy (Category 4 135KT) (passed directly over Manila)

[Aslkahuna]

Until Angela in 1995, STY Patsy was the most intense typhoon to strike Manila on record. Clark AB (55 miles north of Manila) had a peak gust of 60kt-the strongest there since 1947 until Irma in 1974 which hit Clark with gusts to 83 kt. Patsy was a small storm in size and reached peak intensity just before landfall east of Manila. In 1972, STY Rita had a very strange track due to Fujiwhara with 3 other typhoons. The storm is also the longest lived storm in the WPAC Basin. Finally landfalling in China, Rita brought disastrous floods to China, Taiwan, The Philippines, Japan and Korea. Before making its mark in the Atlantic, Rita in 1978 had one more trick with a lowest pressure of 878 mb it's in the top 5 on the record list for low pressures (measured). Consider this, Joan, Ivan, Kate, Opal, Rita, and Omar are all WPAC names that made it big in the ATL while Katrina comes from EPAC and is one of a very few EPAC storms to make it into Arizona as a Tropical Storm (1967)

Steve

[Chacor]

Here's an unusual and impressive storm: (Super) Typhoon Jangmi, 2008.

Unusual, because it had aircraft reconnaissance into its centre - the first time a super typhoon had been flown by the US since the Hurricane Hunters stopped operating in the WPac.

Impressive, because recon reported a stadium effect in the eye, a 901.2 mb/hPa extrapolated minimum pressure, and flight-level winds of 163 knots (140-145 kt 1-min sfc).



And it had a beautiful presentation.

[Chacor]

And how about Typhoon Chebi from 2006? Intensified 40 knots and 40 hPa in three hours operationally (JTWC went from 55 kt to 115 kt in six hours). It ended up getting a development rate of D3.0/06HRS from the Air Force Weather Agency and ultimately maxed out at 925 hPa/105 kt.

And earlier that same year, in October 2006, (Super) Typhoon Cimaron hit T7.5 from SAB (and forecaster Greg Gallina issuing the bulletin said he'd have given it T8.0!). The AFWA also gave it T7.5 (with an automated AODT of T7.9!) It also rapidly intensified, from 55 kt/985 hPa to 100 kt/920 hPa in 24 hours. At its peak NRL/JTWC carried it at 140 kt/898 mbar.

It had incredibly intense convection.

The SAB fix remarks read as follows:

VERY WARM EYE (28C) IS EMBEDDED MORE THAN .95 DEGREES
IN CMG! AND VERY CLOSE TO BEING EMBEDDED IN CDG...AND IT IS
SYMMETRIC AS I HAVE SEEN. STILL EYE NO WOULD BE 6.5. AND EYE ADJ
IS 1.0 FOR SURROUNDING RING OF CDG FOR A FINAL DT OF 7.5. VISIBLE
TECHNIQUE WOULD NOT SUPPORT 8.0 AS BANDING FEATURES ARE OBSCURED
IN THE CIRRUS BLOWOFF OF THE EYEWALL AS IT HAS EXPANDED OVER THE
LAST 6HRS. MET IS UNREPRESENTATIVE 6.5 FORCING THE PT TO BE
7.0..BUT PERSONAL FEELING IS 8.0...DUE MAINLY TO THE EXTREME
WARMTH OF THE EYE TEMP. FT IS 7.5 BASED ON DT. SIDE NOTE: IF
ONE FOLLOWS THE FLOW TABLE FOR OBJECTIVE VALUES IN DVORAK
1984...AN AVERAGE SURROUNDING RING OF -80C LEADS TO AN EYE NO OF
6.8 AND AN EYE TEMP WARMER THAN 16C ADDS 1.2 FOR EYE ADJ.

2006 was an incredible year for the Philippines, especially late on, with Xangsane, Cimaron, Chebi and Durian.

[HurricaneBill]

Here's an unusual and impressive storm: (Super) Typhoon Jangmi, 2008.

Unusual, because it had aircraft reconnaissance into its centre - the first time a super typhoon had been flown by the US since the Hurricane Hunters stopped operating in the WPac.

Impressive, because recon reported a stadium effect in the eye, a 901.2 mb/hPa extrapolated minimum pressure, and flight-level winds of 163 knots (140-145 kt 1-min sfc).

And it had a beautiful presentation.

Jangmi was also the only Category 5 storm worldwide in 2008.

[HurricaneBill]

2006 was an incredible year for the Philippines, especially late on, with Xangsane, Cimaron, Chebi and Durian.

Also Typhoon Utor struck the Philippines a couple weeks after Durian.