Weird cyclones - Impressive cyclones

[HalloweenGale]

Hurricane Nana. This thing was tiny

[arkestra]

I wonder how Catarina was monitored. Was it by the NHC? Any chance to find discussions on this storm?

[RattleMan]

I wonder how Catarina was monitored. Was it by the NHC? Any chance to find discussions on this storm?

ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu/pub/weather/tropi ... 623.AXNT20

MIDDLE/UPPER LEVEL SYNOPTIC FEATURES...
RATHER QUIET IN MOST OF THE BASIN... WITH ANTICYCLONIC FLOW IN
THE GULF OF MEXICO. WEAK SHORTWAVE IS MOVING THRU THE BAHAMAS..
ENHANCING SOME SHOWERS IN THE CENTRAL AND E BAHAMAS.
MODERATE/STRONG SUBSIDENCE IS OVER THE GULF AND THE CARIBBEAN
SEA... ACCOMPANIED BY ZONAL FLOW OVER THE CARIBBEAN AND A FEW
TSTMS OVER NW COLOMBIA. THE FEATURE GENERATING THE MOST
INTEREST TO THE OFFICE IS WELL SOUTH OF THE AREA-- A RARE S ATLC
HURRICANE SE OF BRAZIL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Catarina

[Normandy]

Hurricane Nana. This thing was tiny

That has to be one of the smallest TC's ever recorded....anyone got the wind radii info on Nana?

[Squarethecircle]

I couldn't find the actual advisories. Maybe someone else could (I myself would like to see the info).

Nana was special for another reason: although not the first time there were 14 storms in the Atlantic, nor the first time since the beginning of naming, Nana became the first storm ever to receive an "N" name. The 1969 season, having 18 storms, was a candidate for having a storm with an "N" name, but several of the storms that occurred that year (and thus were counted in the final total) were not given real names; instead, they were listed by number. This meant that the final "named storm" in 1969 was Hurricane Martha, leaving the season 1 storm short of having the first "N" storm.

[Chacor]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_w ... elim02.gif

The only reference in its TCR to wind radius I could find.

[Ptarmigan]

Katrina partly came from TD10, which was a rather small tropical depression from satellite images I have seen.. I remember when Hurricane Katrina hit South Florida, it was rather a small hurricane, with hurricane force winds extending up to 15 miles from the eye. Than Katrina exploded into a monster, easily one of the largest hurricanes in the Atlantic.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/ma ... .009.shtml?

TD10 2005


Katrina Heading Towards South Florida


Katrina On August 29, 2005

[Ptarmigan]

That has to be one of the smallest TC's ever recorded....anyone got the wind radii info on Nana?

That's a really small hurricane right there.

[Mecklenburg]

i found this one weird... forming at unusually low latitude of 2 degrees N, then became category 4 at 5 degrees N

[Mecklenburg]

one odd track...

this one strengthened top Cat 5 while inland... weird...

maintained TD strengh for a very long time while inland

it's unusual to maintain a typhoon intesity for a long ling in central north atlantic due to cold temps...

what a straight track...

doing somersaults...

[HarlequinBoy]

How is that one even possible?

[HarlequinBoy]

1994's Gordon was deadly, but also had an odd path.


1995's Roxanne danced around the Bay of Campeche.


1996's Marco had a long life in the Caribbean with no landfall.

[Ad Novoxium]

Karen of 89. Non-landfalling tropical storm in Caribbean...you know, it's one thing to be a fishspinner. It's another to be a fish-TRACKER.

[Chacor]

i found this one weird... forming at unusually low latitude of 2 degrees N, then became category 4 at 5 degrees N

Until Typhoon Vamei in 2001 and then Cyclone Agni in 2004, Typhoon Sarah was the most equator-ward forming tropical cyclone.

this one strengthened top Cat 5 while inland... weird...

Typhoon Trix killed nearly 1,000 people. I've got to question the cat 5 reading though. The JTWC doesn't have TCRs dating back to 1952.

maintained TD strengh for a very long time while inland

I would suggest that rather than a TD, it was a remnant low which kept its circulation. Remnants aren't reflected as such in JTWC's BT.

it's unusual to maintain a typhoon intesity for a long ling in central north atlantic due to cold temps...

Central North Atlantic? This was in the western/central Pacific. It's not impossible to maintain a typhoon in that region, although I doubt the readings east of the dateline. It was likely extratropical by then. Best-track, in case anyone wants to see it: http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/best_ ... 101957.txt

what a straight track...

Remember, this was back before satellites were in widespread usage, so it's possible they were only estimating the position.

doing somersaults...

Amazingly, it maintained its (supertyphoon) intensity at a relatively high latitude for WPac storms, too. It also had two peaks from the JTWC — one on 24 Oct at 130 kts, and another on 29 Oct at 115 kts. The JMA best-track also shows two peaks — one on 24 Oct at 95 kts, and another on 29 Oct at 90 kts.

[stevetampa33614]

I gotta good one for you suckers. Who says the midwest cant have hurricanes?


Can the great lakes get warm enough to allow for Cyclo-genesis? Suprisingly, sometimes, yes, the problem is the small area and the window of oppurtunity. There have been a couple storms during the Peak Summer months that resembled. Sub Tropical and even Tropical Systems, this one stands out above the rest.

hurricane in the great lakes you say? I lived in Michigan at the time and I can tell you, having living through tropical storms here in Tampa this thing was WORSE than anything i have expierenced down here. Gusts were Easily Category 1 and the damn thing had CYCLONIC chareteristics. The local Mets on TV were so confused cause the pressures were dropping and nothing ever like it had ever been seen before, they started calling it the Huronicane.




Check it out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Lake_Huron_cyclone

[bob rulz]

Speaking of the one on Lake Huron, what about the cyclones that have formed in the Mediterranean Sea?



How about this one on January 15, 1995!

Truly one of the strangest things I know of. It had winds of up to 85mph and was over waters of just 61F.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterran ... 18.2C_1995

[stevetampa33614]

Speaking of the one on Lake Huron, what about the cyclones that have formed in the Mediterranean Sea?



How about this one on January 15, 1995!

Truly one of the strangest things I know of. It had winds of up to 85mph and was over waters of just 61F.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterran ... 18.2C_1995

Wow thats nuts!

Tropical Storm Angola

[stevetampa33614]

Hurricane Nana. This thing was tiny

That has to be one of the smallest TC's ever recorded....anyone got the wind radii info on Nana?

Nope i think Tracy takes that Cake. This little Buggar almost wiped Darwin off the map.



Comparison to tip!

[Squarethecircle]

He did say one of the smallest.

[Honeyko]

Hurricane Mitch -- for cranking up damn near cat-6 territory in the last week of October, and totally manhandling upper-level lows and screaming westerly sheer like they weren't even there.

Cyclone Leon-Eline, for forming in the eastern Indian Ocean off the southwest coast of Indonesia, moving westward across the entire ocean, slamming into Madagascar, popping off the other side as a depression, and then redeveloping explosively into an estimated 135kt before mauling Mozambique. It's remnant swirl was visible all the way across southern Africa and the Kalahari desert, well into the South Atlantic (where it was briefly speculated it might redevelop once again).