Issued by AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING CENTRE
at: 1330 UTC 03/02/2025
Name: Tropical Cyclone Taliah
Identifier: 14U
Data At: 1200 UTC
Latitude: 15.1S
Longitude: 113.6E
Location Accuracy: within 20nm (35 km)
Movement Towards: west (270 deg)
Speed of Movement: 8 knots (14 km/h)
Maximum 10-Minute Wind: 60 knots (110 km/h)
Maximum 3-Second Wind Gust: 85 knots (155 km/h)
Central Pressure: 976 hPa
Radius of 34-knot winds NE quadrant: 150 nm (280 km)
Radius of 34-knot winds SE quadrant: 110 nm (205 km)
Radius of 34-knot winds SW quadrant: 140 nm (260 km)
Radius of 34-knot winds NW quadrant: 150 nm (280 km)
Radius of 48-knot winds NE quadrant: 50 nm (95 km)
Radius of 48-knot winds SE quadrant: 30 nm (55 km)
Radius of 48-knot winds SW quadrant: 40 nm (75 km)
Radius of 48-knot winds NW quadrant: 50 nm (95 km)
Radius of 64-knot winds: nm ( km)
Radius of Maximum Winds: 20 nm (35 km)
Dvorak Intensity Code: T4.0/4.0/D0.5/24HRS STT:D1.0/06HRS
Pressure of outermost isobar: 1000 hPa
Radius of outermost closed isobar: 180 nm (335 km)
FORECAST DATA
Date/Time : Location : Loc. Accuracy: Max Wind : Central Pressure
(UTC) : degrees : nm (km): knots(km/h): hPa
+06: 03/1800: 15.1S 113.0E: 030 (060): 070 (130): 967
+12: 04/0000: 15.3S 112.3E: 040 (075): 085 (155): 954
+18: 04/0600: 15.5S 111.4E: 050 (095): 090 (165): 950
+24: 04/1200: 15.8S 110.6E: 060 (110): 090 (165): 950
+36: 05/0000: 16.0S 108.0E: 070 (130): 090 (165): 951
+48: 05/1200: 15.8S 105.4E: 085 (155): 090 (165): 951
+60: 06/0000: 15.7S 102.9E: 095 (175): 090 (165): 951
+72: 06/1200: 16.0S 100.5E: 115 (210): 085 (155): 956
+96: 07/1200: 16.9S 95.5E: 155 (285): 080 (150): 960
+120: 08/1200: 17.2S 91.4E: 195 (360): 080 (150): 959
REMARKS:
Tropical Cyclone Taliah is intensifying as it moves west over open waters north
of Western Australia.
Taliah was located using enhanced IR satellite imagery, and earlier AMSR2
microwave pass with high confidence. A deep convective burst is occurring over
the centre combined with ongoing convective banding to the west and north.
Intensity Vm=60kn based on subjective Dvorak consistent with most objective
guidance.
Dvorak analysis: FT/CI=4.0. DT not assigned although pattern is now more like
embedded centre which is technically not yet permitted, 24h trend is D and
adjusted MET=4.0. Objective intensity aids are ADT 77 kn(CI=4.5), AiDT 72 kn,
D-PRINT 42 kn, no recent SATCON or DMINT(all 1-minute). AMSR2 at 0628UTC
indicated winds exceeding 80kn but this is inconsistent with other evidence.
Taliah is steered to the west by a strong ridge to the south. There is strong
consensus in the guidance of this movement continuing for at least the next 5
days, with less across track spread than along track spread. Taliah is expected
to track generally westwards and leave the Australian region (90E) by about
Sunday 9 February.
CIMMS shear analysis indicates about 20-25 knots of shear over the centre, with
a sharp temperature gradient on the eastern boundary. The upper flow is split
in this region and indications in the microwave imagery that the inner core is
developing despite the shear. Otherwise upper divergence is good over the
circulation and SSTs are 30-31C. The SSTs gradually decrease to around 28C west
of 105E. Ongoing easterly wind shear and potentially some slightly drier air
may be impediments to intensification from about +24h so forecast intensity
peaks at 90kn and plateaus at 80kn, lower than earlier forecast intensity.
Potentially Taliah weakens much faster than that as there is some potential to
move over cooler waters stirred by TC Vince as Taliah moves west of 100E later
this week.
