Hurricane Helene - Cat. 3

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Hurricane Helene - Cat. 3

#1 Postby cycloneye » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:41 am

HenkL,anything from Namma about this system?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb_latest/TSA_latestBW.gif

It has a low pressure.

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#2 Postby HenkL » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:47 am

Here it is (forecast from NAMMA project):

"Forecast discussion for Sunday, September 10, 2006
September 10th, 2006

The current wave at approximately 27 W has started becoming more disorganized, so the flight plan today has been cancelled. No models are developing anything significant from the current system in the next few days, as the system is being torn apart by southerly shear. A retrograding upper-tropospheric trough at 27 N, 32 W is pulling air from the south above the current wave system; thus, this wave is being abandoned. The next wave shows distinct circulation and is currently located at 13 N, 5 W (near Bamako, Mali), but the models are disagreeing on its translational speed. The model consensus is that the wave will slow down and exit the coast sometime on Tuesday, September 12. The FSU MM5 has its exiting at 06Z, while the FSUSE, GFS, and UKMet have its exiting later in the day between 12Z and 18Z. This wave does appear to be the better choice, as low-level wind analysis indicates that the second wave has more moisture, a favorable location with respect to the African Monsoonal flow, and a dominant role in determining the zonal flow. The first wave is bypassed almost completely by the zonal flow just north of the ITCZ.
The next few forecast meetings will focus on monitoring and tracking this system as it progresses across the African continent."

The forecasts can be found here.
I was looking at this system already, because both the GFS and the ECMWF indicate a developing system SE of the Cape Verde Islands in a few days.
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#3 Postby cycloneye » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:50 am

Thanks for the rapid reply. :) It looks like the next candidate for development if all the conditions are right.
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Re: Strong wave ready to come out of Africa

#4 Postby cheezyWXguy » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:53 am

cycloneye wrote:HenkL,anything from Namma about this system?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb_latest/TSA_latestBW.gif

Ii has a low pressure.

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That full disk image is incredable!! I thought they messed up the land areas and put africaa where Florence was! Very well organized storm
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Re: Strong wave ready to come out of Africa

#5 Postby JonathanBelles » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:55 am

cheezyWXguy wrote:
cycloneye wrote:HenkL,anything from Namma about this system?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb_latest/TSA_latestBW.gif

Ii has a low pressure.

Full Disk Image


That full disk image is incredable!! I thought they messed up the land areas and put africaa where Florence was! Very well organized storm


i need an authorization name and password to see the full disk
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#6 Postby HurricaneMaster_PR » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:55 am

Looks impressive in this satellite shot....

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#7 Postby WindRunner » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:56 am

Hehe . . . it's almost the size of Florence . . . :lol: :eek:
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#8 Postby cycloneye » Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:59 am

fact,registration is for free.

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/registerql.html
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#9 Postby cycloneye » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:05 am

Image

Cloud tops haved warmed a little bit compared with 6 hours ago,but still looks good with that low around 12n.
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#10 Postby SouthFloridawx » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:22 am

This is the wave that the models are showing to develop soon.
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#11 Postby benny » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:28 am

Almost all models like this wave. It is pretty amazing how well in agreement they are. Although they are all in agreement over it being a distant fish storm too.. :/
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#12 Postby Zardoz » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:34 am

benny wrote:Almost all models like this wave. It is pretty amazing how well in agreement they are. Although they are all in agreement over it being a distant fish storm too.. :/

Is that because it's above 10N? Would it need to come off the coast at around 8N or 9N for the models to indicate something other than fish?
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#13 Postby SouthFloridawx » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:36 am

benny wrote:Almost all models like this wave. It is pretty amazing how well in agreement they are. Although they are all in agreement over it being a distant fish storm too.. :/


GFS has seemd to trend farther and farther west on each run with this wave. One thing I noticed about the runs was the Upper Level Low weakening the ridge. Is that possible. Either way later in the run fairly decent Mid-Leve trough comes down and scoops it out. However I would be wary since it's not at real I high latitude and the models weaken the ridge with and ULL. If the system gets past the eventual weakness it will keep going west.
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#14 Postby WindRunner » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:52 am

SouthFloridawx wrote:
benny wrote:Almost all models like this wave. It is pretty amazing how well in agreement they are. Although they are all in agreement over it being a distant fish storm too.. :/


GFS has seemd to trend farther and farther west on each run with this wave. One thing I noticed about the runs was the Upper Level Low weakening the ridge. Is that possible. Either way later in the run fairly decent Mid-Leve trough comes down and scoops it out. However I would be wary since it's not at real I high latitude and the models weaken the ridge with and ULL. If the system gets past the eventual weakness it will keep going west.


Yes, since the models do tend to show a slight lower-level reflection of the ULL down to at least the 850mb level, so it will probably create somewhat of a weakness in that area. Enough to cause a full recurve? I'd say only if it has developed full into a hurricane before reaching 30-35W, which some models are indicating. Otherwise, this could be a scenario similar to Florence in terms of the shape of the track as it once was forecasted - first WNW, shifting to NNW, then back to around W again for a while. Still a long ways out, but if the weakness doesn't completely pick it up, then that's what I'm seeing.
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#15 Postby Robjohn53 » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:54 am

Looks impressive wonder what it will really do...
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#16 Postby SouthFloridawx » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:59 am

WindRunner wrote:
SouthFloridawx wrote:
benny wrote:Almost all models like this wave. It is pretty amazing how well in agreement they are. Although they are all in agreement over it being a distant fish storm too.. :/


GFS has seemd to trend farther and farther west on each run with this wave. One thing I noticed about the runs was the Upper Level Low weakening the ridge. Is that possible. Either way later in the run fairly decent Mid-Leve trough comes down and scoops it out. However I would be wary since it's not at real I high latitude and the models weaken the ridge with and ULL. If the system gets past the eventual weakness it will keep going west.


Yes, since the models do tend to show a slight lower-level reflection of the ULL down to at least the 850mb level, so it will probably create somewhat of a weakness in that area. Enough to cause a full recurve? I'd say only if it has developed full into a hurricane before reaching 30-35W, which some models are indicating. Otherwise, this could be a scenario similar to Florence in terms of the shape of the track as it once was forecasted - first WNW, shifting to NNW, then back to around W again for a while. Still a long ways out, but if the weakness doesn't completely pick it up, then that's what I'm seeing.


This run was different than the runs yesterday as it takes it west but, stalls it out towards the end of the run.

Caution for dial up this is the 384 hour loop of gfs:

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod ... loop.shtml
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#17 Postby Robjohn53 » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:59 am

HurricaneMaster_PR wrote:Looks impressive in this satellite shot....

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Looks Impressive and Florence looks like she split in to
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#18 Postby N2FSU » Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:30 pm

Good sat shot of it here:
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#19 Postby Mac » Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:35 pm

Geez. It's already twisting. This may be a nice one.
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#20 Postby curtadams » Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:47 pm

These things almost always look way better inland than they do a day or two after they come off the coast. Although a lot of model seem to be developing this.
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