Help identifying Cape Verde storm with an unusual NNW track

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Help identifying Cape Verde storm with an unusual NNW track

#1 Postby littlevince » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:10 am

Does anybody know the name/year of this storm ?

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#2 Postby NateFLA » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:15 am

That would be TS6 from 1988 ;)
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at19886.asp
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#3 Postby littlevince » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:18 am

NateFLA wrote:That would be TS6 from 1988 ;)
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at19886.asp


Wow! Fast response :D
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#4 Postby fasterdisaster » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:38 pm

Hey littlevince(or someone else if they've seen it before), could you give me a link to that map? It looks interesting!
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#5 Postby Chacor » Sun Sep 09, 2007 8:58 pm

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image ... -edit2.jpg
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#6 Postby HarlequinBoy » Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:10 pm

Wow, that's an amazing map.
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Re: Help identifying Cape Verde storm with an unusual NNW track

#7 Postby Frank2 » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:31 am

I would have guessed Hurricane Frances (1980):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fran ... _track.png

Frances was upgraded to a hurricane just west of the Cape Verde Islands...
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