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Season 1978-1979 Tropical Cyclone GORDON Track Map
Season 1978-1979 Summaries: [BoM-AU] [JTWC-AU] [JTWC-SIO] [JTWC-SPAC] [JTWC-SH]
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Bureau of Meteorology Tropical Cyclone Data

Name: GORDON
Number: 586 / 197879_03

08 Jan 1979 17:00 UTC to 11 Jan 1979 23:00 UTC

    date/time    lat    long    hPa   cat  kts
1979-01-08 17   19.6   162.6    988    1    50          
1979-01-08 23   19.6   160.6    990    1    45          
1979-01-09 05   19.5   158.8    990    1    45          
1979-01-09 11   19.4   157.0    990    1    45          
1979-01-09 17   19.3   155.4    990    1    45          
1979-01-09 23   19.3   154.5    992    1    45          
1979-01-10 02   19.3   154.4    992    1    40          
1979-01-10 05   19.3   154.4    992    1    40          
1979-01-10 08   19.3   154.4    993    1    40          
1979-01-10 11   19.4   154.3    995    1    35          
1979-01-10 17   19.5   153.3    997         30          
1979-01-10 23   19.5   152.1   1001         25          
1979-01-11 02   19.6   151.6   1001         25          
1979-01-11 05   19.8   151.2   1001         25          
1979-01-11 08   19.9   150.8   1001         25          
1979-01-11 11   19.9   150.3   1001         25          
1979-01-11 14   20.0   149.9   1001         25          
1979-01-11 17   20.2   149.5   1001         25          
1979-01-11 20   20.4   149.0   1001         25          
1979-01-11 23   20.6   148.5   1001         25          
Winds are 10-min average.

Tropical cyclone tracks developed by Michael Bath using data from the Bureau of Meteorology and Google Maps.


Document: tropical_cyclone_gordon.htm
Updated: 20 April 2021
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