August monthly summaries: CPac out

[Chacor]

Let's use this thread to post the three different monthly tropical weather summaries for August. The CPac's one is already out and the Atlantic and EPac ones should be out later this morning.

The CPac one covers Tropical Storm Kika:
ACPN60 PHFO 011200
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TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY FOR THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC
NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI
200 AM HST MON SEP 1 2008

FOR THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC...BETWEEN 140W AND 180

THERE WAS ONE TROPICAL CYCLONE IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE
CENTER /CPHC/ AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2008.

THE FIRST TROPICAL CYCLONE TO DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC
SINCE 2006 OCCURRED IN AUGUST 2008. THE SYSTEM WHICH EVENTUALLY
BECAME TROPICAL DEPRESSION ONE-C WAS FIRST NOTED WHEN IT WAS A WEAK
DISTURBANCE ALONG AN EAST TO WEST ORIENTED SURFACE TROUGH THAT
EXTENDED EAST OF LONGITUDE 140W. THIS WEAK DISTURBANCE WAS FIRST
IDENTIFIED BY FORECASTERS AT CPHC OVER THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC EARLY
ON THE MORNING OF 4 AUGUST NEAR 10N 136W. THIS DISTURBANCE MOVED
WESTWARD AT ABOUT 15 MPH DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS...AND WAS
DESIGNATED TROPICAL DEPRESSION ONE-C BY CPHC ON THE AFTERNOON OF 6
AUGUST WHEN IT WAS ABOUT 850 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HILO...HAWAII. SIX
HOURS LATER...TROPICAL DEPRESSION ONE-C WAS UPGRADED TO A TROPICAL
STORM AND WAS ASSIGNED THE NAME KIKA.

TROPICAL STORM KIKA WAS A RELATIVELY SMALL TROPICAL CYCLONE THAT
MOVED WESTWARD AT ABOUT 15 MPH SOUTH OF A SUBTROPICAL RIDGE. KIKA
NEVER STRENGTHENED BEYOND A MINIMAL TROPICAL STORM...EVEN THOUGH THE
ENVIRONMENT SURROUNDING THE TROPICAL CYCLONE APPEARED TO BE SOMEWHAT
FAVORABLE FOR SOME SLIGHT INTENSIFICATION. THE SEA SURFACE
TEMPERATURES WERE AROUND 27C ALONG ITS PATH...WHICH WAS GENERALLY
ALONG LATITUDE 10N. THE VERTICAL WIND SHEAR IN THE VICINITY OF THE
TROPICAL CYCLONE WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 10 TO 15 MPH FROM THE EAST. ON
THE MORNING OF 08 AUGUST...THE FIRST VISIBLE IMAGES INDICATED THAT
THE LOW LEVEL CIRCULATION CENTER OF KIKA HAD BECOME SEPARATED FROM
THE DEEP CONVECTION. AS A RESULT...KIKA WAS DOWNGRADED TO A TROPICAL
DEPRESSION. THIS WEAKENED CONDITION WAS TEMPORARY...AND KIKA WAS
UPGRADED TO TROPICAL STORM INTENSITY AGAIN BY THE EVENING OF 8
AUGUST. ANALYSES FROM UW/CIMSS INDICATED THE VERTICAL WIND SHEAR WAS
10 MPH OR LESS AT THIS TIME. THE TROPICAL STORM...WHICH TRAVELLED
WESTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WAS MOVING
OVER 26.5C TO 27C SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES. KIKA EVENTUALLY WEAKENED
AGAIN...AND WAS DOWNGRADED TO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION BY THE AFTERNOON
OF 10 AUGUST WHEN IT WAS ABOUT 875 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF
HONOLULU...HAWAII. THE TROPICAL DEPRESSION CONTINUED TO WEAKEN...AND
THE FINAL ADVISORY FOR THIS SYSTEM WAS ISSUED BY CPHC DURING THE
EVENING OF 11 AUGUST. THE REMNANTS OF FORMER TROPICAL DEPRESSION
KIKA CROSSED THE DATELINE INTO THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC LATE ON 13
AUGUST.

SUMMARY TABLE

NAME DATES MAX. WIND EST. MINIMUM PRESSURE
--------------------------------------------------------------
TS KIKA 6-11 AUG 35 KT/40 MPH 1007 MB/29.74 IN

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE
CENTER WEB SITE AT.../IN LOWERCASE/...WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CPHC

THE NEXT TROPICAL WEATHER SUMMARY WILL BE ISSUED ON OCTOBER 1...
2008.

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HOUSTON/POWELL

[Buck]

They sure are taking their time on the Atlantic August summary... but I guess a good deal happened.

[Chacor]

I emailed the NHC about that. Dennis Feltgen (their public affairs officer) said they'll get to it as soon as they can, with active storms obviously taking priority.