MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#41 Postby Visioen » Fri Sep 28, 2018 6:17 pm

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#42 Postby storm_in_a_teacup » Fri Sep 28, 2018 6:28 pm

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storm_in_a_teacup wrote:Do these things ever hit the far eastern Mediterranean (Levant)? Like Lebanon, Israel etc? Or is it just the Ionian Sea region?

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Holy crap I had no idea there was one earlier this year.
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#43 Postby DanieleItalyRm » Fri Sep 28, 2018 7:24 pm

storm_in_a_teacup wrote:
Sciencerocks wrote:
storm_in_a_teacup wrote:Do these things ever hit the far eastern Mediterranean (Levant)? Like Lebanon, Israel etc? Or is it just the Ionian Sea region?

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=119546


Holy crap I had no idea there was one earlier this year.


I think like tropical disturbance in this case, or subtropical. Convection was are unstable.
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#44 Postby BYG Jacob » Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:29 pm


Either on the verge of, or already a TS.
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#45 Postby Aric Dunn » Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:37 pm

with that type of convective patter its almost certainly a TS. we would need a temp profile.

best looking MED system I have ever seen.

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#46 Postby Aric Dunn » Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:54 pm

Assuming no actual weather radar in Greece ? cant find anything except fake future cast crap .
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#47 Postby AdamFirst » Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:11 pm

Aric Dunn wrote:Assuming no actual weather radar in Greece ? cant find anything except fake future cast crap .



http://www.emy.gr/emy/en/observation/eikones_radar

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#48 Postby Aric Dunn » Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:21 pm

AdamFirst wrote:
Aric Dunn wrote:Assuming no actual weather radar in Greece ? cant find anything except fake future cast crap .



http://www.emy.gr/emy/en/observation/eikones_radar

Only one and it's a still image


well thats a blast from the past.. I suppose most of europe has no need for hi res radar data..
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Tropical Storm over the Mediterranean Sea

#49 Postby mrbagyo » Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:40 am

Thanks for that radar link, I was able to loop it (image are not that good though)

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#50 Postby Vince_and_Grace_fan » Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:57 am

It looks pretty good now. If it would have been more time over water...

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#51 Postby Vince_and_Grace_fan » Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:00 am

The eye is over Kalamata now. The pressure dropped to 989 hPa and the highest 10-min sustained wind was near 65 km/h (35 kt). The strongest gust was 98 km/h (53 kt). An ASCAT pass at 08:52 UTC showed 50-55 kt winds on the western side of the cyclone and a ship also reported 50 kt wind there at 05 UTC.

http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/kalamatawest/

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#52 Postby Visioen » Sat Sep 29, 2018 7:42 am

Aric Dunn wrote:
AdamFirst wrote:
Aric Dunn wrote:Assuming no actual weather radar in Greece ? cant find anything except fake future cast crap .

http://www.emy.gr/emy/en/observation/eikones_radar
Only one and it's a still image

well thats a blast from the past.. I suppose most of europe has no need for hi res radar data..

In Belgium we have high res radar and not really extreme weather. Maybe it's more of a financial thing than anything else.
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#53 Postby WAcyclone » Sat Sep 29, 2018 8:09 am

ESTOFEX estimates this to have 65 kt winds and a central pressure of 987 mb. Dvorak numbers are apparently at T4.0:

Mesoscale Discussion
Valid: Sat 29 Sep 2018 12:00 to Sat 29 Sep 2018 21:00 UTC
Issued: Sat 29 Sep 2018 12:29
Forecaster: ESTOFEX

This is an intermediate bulletin regarding Mediterranean cyclone 2018M02 because of intensification of the system.

System: 2018M02

At 29 SEP 1200UTC the storm centre was located near 37.0 N and 22.3 E
Estimated minimum pressure: 987 mb.
Maximum sustained winds: 33 m/s (65 kt, 120 km/h).
Maximum gusts: 40 m/s (80 kt, 140 km/h).

Since 06 UTC, the cyclone has further intensified as it made landfall in the southern Peloponnese. The centre has since then temporarily moved over water again. A brief eye covered by thin cirrus has become visible in VIS imagery since 9 UTC. The intensity estimate now suggests a Dvorak T4.0 number of 4.0 and a central pressure of 987 mb, as well as marginal hurricane wind speed of 33 m/s (65 kt). At 12 UTC Kalamata, a little north of the centre, reported a pressure of 989 mb, which corroborates this intensity estimate.

Near hurricane-force winds are affecting the far southern Peleponnese and the Cyclades. Torrential rainfall is expected to be the most important hazard though.

Severe flash floods with possible landslides are possible, particular in Southeastern Peloponnese, Attica, Euboia, and Eastern Thessaly where 100-300 mm storm totals are expected. These amounts are forecast for other regions:

Central and Eastern Makedonia: 80-160 mm

Western and Central Peloponnese, Central Greece, Southern and Western Crete, Turkish coastal regions from Kash until Canakkale: 30-100 mm

Cyclades: 30-60 mm

Additionally, storm surge of 1 to 1.5 m are likely on the Peloponnese coast.

Finally, there is a risk of tornadoes in the northeast quadrant of the cyclone, where long curved low-level hodographs are present, primarily affecting southern Peloponnese and Attica. For more details, refer to the convective forecast.

The next full MD will appear tonight at 21 UTC.


Source: http://www.estofex.org/
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#54 Postby TorSkk » Sat Sep 29, 2018 9:34 am

Are MED storms no longer designated by NOAA?
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#55 Postby Hurricanehink » Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:21 am

Does anyone know who named the storm "Zorba/Zorbas"?
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#56 Postby Aric Dunn » Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:32 pm

That sure looks like a shallow convective hurricane to me..
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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#57 Postby ozonepete » Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:38 pm

Has to be a hurricane. And made two landfalls. First on the peninsula just south of Pilos then on the mainland just south of Kalamata.

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#58 Postby Vince_and_Grace_fan » Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:38 pm

Aric Dunn wrote:That sure looks like a shallow convective hurricane to me..


The convection wasn't shallow, the cyclone produced cloud tops around -55, -60 °C permanently before and at the landfall. But the available data didn't support hurricane intensity. As I have mentioned earlier, an ASCAT pass near 09 UTC showed 50 kt wind, and the highest measured 10-min sustained wind in Greece was 80 km/h (43 kt) in Pylos (west coast of the Peloppenese, SW from Kalamata). However, that station reported hurricane-force 121 km/h gust.I think the peak intensity was at most 60 kt with 987 hPa cenrtral pressure.

http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/pylos/

Hurricanehink: I think the names came from the media, as Trixie in 2016.

Today's animation (beside the nice structure it had well-defined upper level outflow too):

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Re: MED: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#59 Postby ozonepete » Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:52 pm

Vince_and_Grace_fan wrote:
Aric Dunn wrote:That sure looks like a shallow convective hurricane to me..


The convection wasn't shallow, the cyclone produced cloud tops around -55, -60 °C permanently before and at the landfall. But the available data didn't support hurricane intensity. As I have mentioned earlier, an ASCAT pass near 09 UTC showed 50 kt wind, and the highest measured 10-min sustained wind in Greece was 80 km/h (43 kt) in Pylos (west coast of the Peloppenese, SW from Kalamata). However, that station reported hurricane-force 121 km/h gust.I think the peak intensity was at most 60 kt with 987 hPa cenrtral pressure.

url]http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/pylos/

Hurricanehink: I think the names came from the media, as Trixie in 2016.

Today's animation (beside the nice structure it had well-defined upper level outflow too):

http://gallery.site.hu/d/28661424-1/Med_20180929.gif



Thanks for the great gif! Yeah I'm still thinking it made 65 knots somewhere offshore just before landfall with such a strong, symmetric core.
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Re: ZORBAS - Hurricane over the Mediterranean Sea

#60 Postby Vince_and_Grace_fan » Sat Sep 29, 2018 2:04 pm

Thanks for the great gif! Yeah I'm still thinking it made 65 knots somewhere offshore just before landfall with such a strong, symmetric core.


Yes, this is not impossible, but we will never know. We need Recon. :D
Also, I will look through the amateur meteorological stations too in the next days.
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