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Monthly Global Tropical Cyclone Tracks May 2011
[Summaries and Track Data] [Prepared by Gary Padgett]
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Monthly Global Tropical Cyclone Tracks May 2011 [Summaries and Track Data] [Prepared by Gary Padgett] |
GLOBAL TROPICAL CYCLONE TRACKS - MAY 2011
!!!! IMPORTANT -- PLEASE SEE INFORMATION AT END OF FILE !!!!
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NORTHWEST PACIFIC (NWP) - North Pacific Ocean West of Longitude 180
Sources of Information
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The track coordinates and 1-minute average maximum sustained wind
values in general were taken from operational warnings issued by the
Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) of the U. S. Air Force and Navy,
located at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The central pressure and 10-minute
average maximum sustained wind estimates for most systems were obtained
from warnings issued by the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA), which
is the World Meteorological Organization's Regional Specialised Meteor-
ological Centre for the basin. In a few instances, information from
warnings issued by other Asian warning centers may have been utilized.
The center position coordinates from JMA and other centers were com-
pared with those from JTWC and annotations made in the Remarks column
when the differences in general amounted to 40-50 nm or more.
Michael V. Padua of Naga City in the Philippines, owner of the
Typhoon 2000 website, sends me cyclone tracks based upon warnings
issued by the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the Philippines'
Atmospheric, Geophysical & Astronomical Services Administration
(PAGASA). A special thanks to Michael for his efforts.
Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2011 Pacific
Typhoon Season:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Pacific_typhoon_season>
Following are links to Michael Padua's storm logs for the May
tropical systems:
http://www.typhoon2000.ph/stormarchives/2011/stormlogs/02bebeng11_log.htm>
http://www.typhoon2000.ph/stormarchives/2011/stormlogs/03chedeng11_log.htm>
Systems Tracked
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Tropical Storm AERE (03W / 1101 / BEBENG) 05 - 11 May
Super Typhoon SONGDA (04W / 1102 / CHEDENG) 19 May - 01 June
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Storm Name: AERE Cyclone Number: 03W Basin: NWP
PAGASA Internal Name: BEBENG JMA Tropical Storm Number: 1101
Date Time Lat Lon Cent MSW MSW Remarks
(GMT) Press 1-min 10-min
(mb) (kts) (kts)
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11 MAY 05 1200 10.0 N 129.0 E 1008 20 Low pressure area
11 MAY 05 1800 10.0 N 128.0 E 1006 25 JMA Bulletins
11 MAY 06 0000 11.0 N 128.0 E 1006 25
11 MAY 06 0600 11.5 N 128.4 E 1004 30 25 JTWC warnings
11 MAY 06 1200 11.7 N 128.2 E 1004 30 25 JMA: 12.0N/129.0E
11 MAY 06 1800 11.9 N 127.3 E 1004 30 30 JMA: 12.0N/128.4E
11 MAY 07 0000 12.8 N 126.8 E 1000 35 30
11 MAY 07 0600 12.8 N 126.3 E 998 35 35
11 MAY 07 1200 13.3 N 125.5 E 994 45 40
11 MAY 07 1800 13.6 N 124.7 E 990 45 45
11 MAY 08 0000 13.8 N 124.0 E 990 50 45
11 MAY 08 0600 14.6 N 123.5 E 994 50 40
11 MAY 08 1200 15.4 N 122.9 E 994 50 40
11 MAY 08 1800 15.7 N 122.8 E 990 50 45
11 MAY 09 0000 16.5 N 122.5 E 990 45 45
11 MAY 09 0600 17.1 N 122.3 E 994 40 40
11 MAY 09 1200 18.0 N 122.3 E 996 40 35 Over NE Philippines
11 MAY 09 1800 19.0 N 122.3 E 996 40 35 JMA: 19.1N/122.8E
11 MAY 10 0000 20.3 N 121.9 E 998 35 35
11 MAY 10 0600 21.0 N 122.4 E 998 35 35 JMA: 20.5 N/122.5E
11 MAY 10 1200 22.3 N 123.8 E 998 35 35
11 MAY 10 1800 23.3 N 124.8 E 996 35 35
11 MAY 11 0000 24.9 N 126.0 E 996 35 35
11 MAY 11 0600 26.5 N 127.6 E 996 35 35 Just NW of Okinawa
11 MAY 11 1200 27.6 N 129.5 E 998 35 35 JMA: 28.4N/129.6E
11 MAY 11 1800 29.8 N 132.0 E 1000 35 25 JMA: 30.0N/131.0E
Note: From examining the 11/1800 and 12/0000 UTC High Seas bulletins from
JMA, it appears that likely the remnants of Aere were absorbed into a
developing extratropical low located near 34N/128E at 11/1800 UTC.
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Storm Name: SONGDA Cyclone Number: 04W Basin: NWP
PAGASA Internal Name: CHEDENG JMA Tropical Storm Number: 1102
Date Time Lat Lon Cent MSW MSW Remarks
(GMT) Press 1-min 10-min
(mb) (kts) (kts)
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11 MAY 19 1200 5.0 N 141.0 E 1010 20 Tropical LOW
11 MAY 19 1800 9.0 N 142.0 E 1006 25 JMA Bulletins
11 MAY 20 0000 9.0 N 141.0 E 1006 25
11 MAY 20 0600 8.3 N 141.9 E 1006 30 25 JTWC warnings
11 MAY 20 1200 8.5 N 141.0 E 1004 35 30
11 MAY 20 1800 9.2 N 139.0 E 1002 35 30 JMA: 8.6N/139.4E
11 MAY 21 0000 8.9 N 138.5 E 1004 30 30
11 MAY 21 0600 8.9 N 138.2 E 1002 30 30 Near Yap
11 MAY 21 1200 9.2 N 137.7 E 1000 35 30
11 MAY 21 1800 9.8 N 137.2 E 998 35 35
11 MAY 22 0000 9.9 N 136.8 E 994 45 40
11 MAY 22 0600 10.0 N 136.4 E 994 45 45
11 MAY 22 1200 10.3 N 135.9 E 985 55 50
11 MAY 22 1800 10.6 N 135.0 E 985 55 50
11 MAY 23 0000 10.9 N 133.9 E 985 60 50 JMA: 10.8N/134.3E
11 MAY 23 0600 11.2 N 132.9 E 985 60 50
11 MAY 23 1200 11.5 N 131.8 E 985 60 50
11 MAY 23 1800 11.6 N 131.4 E 980 55 55
11 MAY 24 0000 12.0 N 130.9 E 980 55 55
11 MAY 24 0600 12.4 N 130.2 E 975 60 60
11 MAY 24 1200 12.6 N 129.3 E 975 65 60
11 MAY 24 1800 12.3 N 128.5 E 975 75 60
11 MAY 25 0000 12.4 N 128.1 E 960 90 75
11 MAY 25 0600 12.7 N 127.8 E 945 105 90
11 MAY 25 1200 13.1 N 127.4 E 945 105 90
11 MAY 25 1800 13.8 N 127.2 E 945 115 90
11 MAY 26 0000 14.6 N 126.6 E 940 115 95
11 MAY 26 0600 15.6 N 125.7 E 920 130 105
11 MAY 26 1200 16.2 N 125.1 E 920 140 105
11 MAY 26 1800 17.2 N 124.4 E 920 140 105
11 MAY 27 0000 18.1 N 123.9 E 920 130 105
11 MAY 27 0600 19.3 N 123.4 E 920 130 105
11 MAY 27 1200 20.4 N 123.1 E 935 125 95
11 MAY 27 1800 21.6 N 123.2 E 940 115 90
11 MAY 28 0000 23.1 N 123.8 E 945 105 80
11 MAY 28 0600 24.7 N 124.9 E 945 85 80
11 MAY 28 1200 26.5 N 126.6 E 950 75 80
11 MAY 28 1800 28.6 N 129.2 E 960 60 70
11 MAY 29 0000 30.6 N 131.7 E 975 55 60
11 MAY 29 0600 32.8 N 134.2 E 982 50 50
11 MAY 29 1200 34.4 N 136.6 E 998 30 45 Extratropical
11 MAY 29 1800 34.0 N 137.0 E 988 45 JMA High Seas Bulletins
11 MAY 30 0000 35.0 N 140.0 E 990 45
11 MAY 30 0600 36.0 N 143.0 E 990 45
11 MAY 30 1200 37.0 N 145.0 E 990 50
11 MAY 30 1800 36.0 N 147.0 E 990 45
11 MAY 31 0000 36.0 N 151.0 E 988 45
11 MAY 31 0600 37.0 N 155.0 E 988 45
11 MAY 31 1200 37.0 N 157.0 E 988 45
11 MAY 31 1800 38.0 N 159.0 E 988 45
11 JUN 01 0000 38.0 N 161.0 E 988 45
11 JUN 01 0600 39.0 N 165.0 E 988 40
11 JUN 01 1200 39.0 N 170.0 E 990 40
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********** SPECIAL NOTE **********
I now have some assistants who are helping to prepare the monthly
tropical cyclone files, and I'd like to thank them for their willing-
ness to assist me. Kevin Boyle, of Stoke-on-Trent, UK, will be
preparing the tracks for Northwest Pacific basin tropical cyclones
during the most active part of the NWP season from June through
December.
Michael Bath, of McLeans Ridges, New South Wales, Australia, is now
preparing the track files for Australian Region and South Pacific
tropical cyclones. Also, Steve Young sends me tracks with data for
the pre-warning and post-warning stages of tropical cyclones in all
basins, prepared primarily from NCEP re-analysis data or else taken
from NRL files.
A very special thanks is due to Kevin, Michael and Steve for their
assistance.
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SOURCES OF TROPICAL CYCLONE INFORMATION
The purpose of this section is to list some websites where many and
varied types of tropical cyclone information are archived. Many readers
will know about these already, but for the benefit of those who don't,
I wanted to include them.
(1) Aircraft Reconnaissance Information
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Various types of messages from reconnaissance aircraft may be
retrieved from the following FTP site:
ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/products/nhc/recon/>
Information regarding how to interpret the coded reconnaissance
messages may be found at the following URL:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/reconlist.shtml>
Links are also included to websites with further information about the
U. S. Air Force 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and the NOAA Air-
craft Operations Center.
(2) Archived Advisories
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All the advisory products (public advisories, forecast/advisories,
strike probabilities, discussions, various graphics) issued by TPC/NHC
are archived on TPC's website. For the current year (using 2004 as an
example), the archived products can be found at:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/index.shtml>
Links to tropical products archives for earlier years are available at
the following URL:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml>
JTWC warnings for past storms are archived on the NRL Monterrey website:
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html>
On the NRL site, the link to past years can be found in the upper left
corner of the screen.
I am not aware at the moment of any other TCWC which archives all
its tropical cyclone warning/advisory products for public access, but
if I learn of any, I will add them to this list.
(3) Satellite Imagery
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Satellite images of tropical cyclones in various sensor bands are
available on the NRL Monterrey and University of Wisconsin websites,
courtesy of Jeff Hawkins and Chris Velden and their associates. The
links are:
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.html>
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/tropic.html>
On the NRL site, the link to past years can be found in the upper left
corner of the screen. For the CIMSS site, a link to data archives is
located in the lower left portion of the screen.
Additional tropical satellite imagery, along with looping ability for
composite microwave imagery for the Western Hemisphere north of the
equator, can be found at:
(1) For the Eastern North Pacific:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-epac.html>
(2) For the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-atl.html>
(4) Cyclone Tracking Information
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There is a U. S. Navy site that tracks tropical cyclones at 6-hourly
intervals which often includes pre and post-advisory positions. The
link to the site is:
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/atcf_web/doc_archives/>
Steve Young has compiled many of these tracks onto a single webpage
which is very user-friendly:
http://home.earthlink.net/~shy9/tc1.htm>
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!!!!!! IMPORTANT NOTE - PLEASE READ !!!!!!
To repeat the caveat which is included in the Author's Note
at the end of the cyclone summaries--the tropical cyclone tracks
I prepare are based upon the operational warnings/advisories/
advices/bulletins which are issued by the various tropical cyclone
warning agencies around the world. Users of these tracks should
be aware that they are preliminary and subject to revision during
post-seasonal analyses of the cyclones by the forecasters and
analysts at the several warning centers.
For the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific basins, official tropical
cyclone reports and "best tracks" can be found at the website of
the Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov>
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center's website contains links to their
Annual Tropical Cyclone Reports which include that agency's "best
tracks" for tropical cyclones in the Northwest Pacific basin, the
North Indian Ocean, and the Southern Hemisphere:
http://www.usno.navy.mil/JTWC>
SPECIAL NOTE: Back issues of the global tropical cyclone summaries
and monthly cyclone track files can be obtained at the following
websites:
ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/pub/landsea/padgett/>
http://australiasevereweather.com/cyclones/>
http://www.typhoon2000.ph>
http://mpittweather.com>
PREPARED BY:
Gary Padgett [email protected]
Kevin Boyle [email protected]
Michael Bath [email protected]
SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS BY:
Michael V. Padua [email protected]
[email protected]
Steve Young [email protected]
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