Subj: Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #229 Date: 96-01-06 00:54:50 EST From: JBEVEN@delphi.com To: PaulJMC@aol.com This report is compiled from warnings issued by: National Hurricane Center Central Pacific Hurricane Center Naval Pacific Meteor./Ocean. Center Fiji Meteorological Service Meteorological Service of New Zealand Joint Typhoon Warning Center Japanese Meteorological Agency Bureau of Meteorology, Australia Philippine Meteorological Service Royal Observatory of Hong Kong Indian Meteorological Department Reunion Meteorological Service Mauritius Meteorological Service (others may be added as they become available) Author's Note: I accidentally erased my summary mailing list file. I've reconstructed it as best I can, but I may not be mailing to everyone that was on the list prior to my goof. Anyone who sees this and is no longer getting the summary by e-mail please let me know. WEEKLY TROPICAL CYCLONE SUMMARY #229 DECEMBER 17 - 24, 1995 North Atlantic Basin: No tropical cyclones. Eastern North Pacific Basin (E of 140 Deg. W): No tropical cyclones. Central North Pacific Basin (180 Deg. W to 140 Deg. W): No tropical cyclones. Western North Pacific Basin (W of 180 Deg.): Tropical Depression: A tropical depression formed near 7N 137E on 24 Decem- ber. At the end of the summary period, it was moving west with 30 kt winds. North Indian Ocean Basin: No tropical cyclones. South Indian Ocean Basin (W of 135 Deg. E): Tropical Cyclone Gertie (TC-05S): Tropical Cyclone Gertie formed near 15S 123E on 18 December. Initially moving west-southwest, the system turned south-southeast on 19 December. Gertie continued south-southeast and made landfall near Mandora, Australia on 20 December. The cyclone reached hurricane strength on 20 December and a peak intensity of 75 kt near landfall. Gertie continued inland and dissipated over western Australia on 21 December. Gertie affected parts of the western Australia coast. Mandora reported 45 kt sustained winds at 2200 UTC 19 December and a minimum pressure of 969.0 mb at 0100 UTC 20 December. Higher winds probably occurred between the three hourly observations. Ship VJDP reported 38 kt winds at 2100 UTC 18 December as Gertie was first developing. There are no reports of damage or casualties at this time. South Pacific Ocean Basin (E of 135 Deg. E): No tropical cyclones. Disclaimer: While an effort has been made to insure that this information is as accurate as possible, this is a preliminary and unofficial report drawn from operational warnings. Thus, it may not always agree with the best track information published after the storm is over. Please address any questions or comments on the information this week to Jack Beven at Internet addresses: jbeven@delphi.com or beven@nhc.noaa.gov Past text copies of the Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary can be obtained via anonymous ftp from squall.met.fsu.edu in directory pub/jack. They are also available by e-mail. Please send an e-mail message to Jack Beven if you are interested. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- From JBEVEN@delphi.com Sat Jan 6 00:54:27 1996 Return-Path: JBEVEN@delphi.com Received: from bos1f.delphi.com (bos1f.delphi.com [192.80.63.6]) by emin04.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA26430 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 00:54:26 -0500 From: JBEVEN@delphi.com Received: from delphi.com by delphi.com (PMDF V5.0-5 #10880) id <01HZO6G20SQS9D82MD@delphi.com> for PaulJMC@aol.com; Sat, 06 Jan 1996 00:53:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 00:53:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: Tropical Cyclone Weekly Summary #229 To: PaulJMC@aol.com Message-id: <01HZO6G20SQU9D82MD@delphi.com> X-VMS-To: IN%"PaulJMC@aol.com" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT