Unusual, Impressive, and Interesting Storms

[Cyclone1]

To help us through this lull before August, let's discuss the unusual and the impressive. Any storm that just baffles the mind, either because of pure raw power, or pure meteorological oddity, gets discussed here. I know threads like this have existed in the past, but there's no point in bumping a year old thread. We were discussing it in the chat, and figured a new thread would be worth making.

Start off with something small, Erika, 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erika_2003_track.png

Born near the Azores, and hit northern Mexico. I'm fairly sure that's never happened before.

[Florida1118]

How About hurricane Catarina?

[Blown Away]

Frances & Jeanne landfalled in Florida a few weeks apart, both on a Saturday evening, almost within the same hour, and the landfall point was essentially the same point, about 2 miles apart. What were the odds of that happening!

[Macrocane]

I think it was not confirmed but it is supposed that Hurricane Hattie (1961), Tropical storm Simone and tropical storm Inga were the same system or at least Hattie helped to the formation of Simone and Simone helped to formation of Inga, you can see the tracks here:

[cycloneye]

This is a great thread. I am sure,anyone will not forget the crazy Lenny of November 1999.

[HURAKAN]

TROPICAL STORM GRACE (2009)



HURRICANE VINCE (2005)

[Florida1118]

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Hurricane Catarnia In the S. Atlantic

[Chacor]

Personal favourite is Hurricane John of 1994, which formed in the EPac, made it to the WPac as a typhoon, and then recurved back into the CPac.

[Aslkahuna]

Many years ago (and I do mean many) Weatherwise had an article about the Hattie-Simone-Inga Trifecta (in 1961 EPAC storms were forecast by the SFO USWB Office). Today, that would not happen since Hattie made it over to EPAC fairly intact with an identifiable low pressure center. John in 1994 was, until Ioke, the strongest storm on record in CPAC during his first trip through. The storm is still the longest lasting on record beating out Ginger in the ATL.

Steve

[KWT]

Ginger had a pretty cool track, it looked like it was going to escape out to sea but a very powerful upper high must have blocked the systems exit route and it ended up backing in on itself and doing a 180 flip!

[littlevince]

1988 Unnamed Tropical Storm
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_w ... elim01.gif



Loop (7-9 September 1988)

[KWT]

You can see just how deep the ULL/trough digs there on that image, it really does lift the system right out. Looks to me like it gets enhanced by the ULL as it goes up the eastern side of the ULL.

[Cyclone1]

Where'd you get that gif, or did you make it?

[Ivanhater]

For me personally was sitting on the back porch with no power in a disaster zone in Pensacola after Ivan. Listening to the radio and hearing Ivan was back in the gulf coming for more...insane

[littlevince]

Where'd you get that gif, or did you make it?

Yes, I made it with images from gibbs

If you liked, I have Erika from 2003 you mentioned the 1st post, in youtube videoformat, because Gif is too big


Select HD 720p and fullscreen for better quality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqY_B6FolxU

[Cyclone1]

Where'd you get that gif, or did you make it?

Yes, I made it with images from gibbs

If you liked, I have Erika from 2003 you mentioned the 1st post, in youtube videoformat, because Gif is too big


Select HD 720p and fullscreen for better quality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqY_B6FolxU

Oooooh, that is so awesome! How easy are these to make? (And how many do you have?)

[LSU2001]

TS Erin 2007 has to be the weirdest storm I have ever watched. She looked like a hurricane over Oklahoma.


Tim

During the last Atlantic hurricane season, our "E" storm was Erin. It occurred in mid-August.

But only now, in April, has the corresponding National Hurricane Center tropical cyclone report (PDF) finally been released. The extraordinarily long time gap underscores just how mysterious a meteorological phenomenon Erin actually was, and how long it must have taken meteorologists to figure out what they could say about it.

Consider: Over water, Erin was never anything but a weak and disorganized tropical storm, one that struck the Texas coast on August 16 with maximum sustained winds of 30 knots (tropical depression class).

But then something beyond crazy happened.

Over land, the remnants of the storm system looped up towards Oklahoma and reorganized, so much so that August 19 satellite images show Erin, its center very close to Oklahoma City, resembling an overland hurricane with an "eye" that it had never managed to develop over water. Meanwhile, the winds picked up far more than they ever had over the Gulf – reaching 50 knots sustained, 70 knot gusts – even as pressure fell as far as 995 millibars (far lower than when Erin had been an easily categorizable tropical storm).

So what on earth was Erin after it re-intensified over land?

Debate about this among hurricane specialists appears to be the reason the official report on Erin took so long to come out. The answer is that the experts don't know what to call it – none of the familiar categories work. As the report explains:



Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmen ... z0u4U8ngID

[Hurricanehink]

I think it goes without saying, but the 1991 Halloween Nor'easter (the Perfect Storm) is certainly unusual and interesting. It formed from a huge non-tropical low off the coast of Nova Scotia, moved over the Gulf Stream east of New Jersey, developed a small area of convection, and a small hurricane developed inside the huge storm.


Track


Image while becoming subtropical


At peak intensity

[HurricaneBill]

This storm in 1867. Imagine if a storm took a track like this now:



The Yankee Hurricane of 1935:



Probably the most bizarre track in the WPAC: Typhoon Wayne 1986

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlTz2rAmFwc[/youtube]

[Macrocane]

that must be one of the most if not the most bizarre track in every basin