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Tropical Storm Florence from
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Tropical Storm Florence from TRMM: September 12, 2000 |
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Orbit T06 |
| Completed |
2000-09-12 |
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Tropical Storm Allison Progr
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Tropical Storm Allison Progression (WMS) |
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Tropical Storm Allison began just five days into the 2001 hurricane season. Allison formed in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and dumped an enormous amount of rain on Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and other states in the southeastern United States. |
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2004-03-11 |
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Tropical Storm Kenna on Octo
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Tropical Storm Kenna on October 22, 2002 |
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Tropical Storm Kenna passes 365 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. It has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts to 50 mph. The rain structure is shown in this animation. |
| Completed |
2002-10-22 |
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Tropical Storm Kenna on Octo
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Tropical Storm Kenna on October 22, 2002 |
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Tropical Storm Kenna passes 365 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. It has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts to 50 mph. The rain structure is shown in this animation. |
| Completed |
2002-10-22 |
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Tropical Storm Kenna on Octo
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Tropical Storm Kenna on October 22, 2002 |
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Tropical Storm Kenna passes 365 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico. It has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts to 50 mph. The rain structure is shown in this animation. |
| Completed |
2002-10-22 |
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Tropical storm Isodore makes
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Tropical storm Isodore makes landfall in Louisiana Thursday morning, September 26, 2002 |
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Tropical Storm Isodore blew ashore early Thursday morning packing winds just below hurricane strength. At 11 am (EST) Isodore's center was 60 miles north-northeast of New Orleans and just west of Poplarville, Mississippi. It was moving north-northeast at 17 mph. Tornado warnings and flood watches were posted from the Louisiana coast to the Florida panhandle. The storm has brought two days of steady downpours with 10-12 inch accumulations. |
| Completed |
2002-09-26 |
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Tropical storm Isodore makes
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Tropical storm Isodore makes landfall in Louisiana Thursday morning, September 26, 2002 |
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Tropical Storm Isodore blew ashore early Thursday morning packing winds just below hurricane strength. At 11 am (EST) Isodore's center was 60 miles north-northeast of New Orleans and just west of Poplarville, Mississippi. It was moving north-northeast at 17 mph. Tornado warnings and flood watches were posted from the Louisiana coast to the Florida panhandle. The storm has brought two days of steady downpours with 10-12 inch accumulations. |
| Completed |
2002-09-26 |
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Tropical storm Isodore makes
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Tropical storm Isodore makes landfall in Louisiana Thursday morning, September 26, 2002 |
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Tropical Storm Isodore blew ashore early Thursday morning packing winds just below hurricane strength. At 11 am (EST) Isodore's center was 60 miles north-northeast of New Orleans and just west of Poplarville, Mississippi. It was moving north-northeast at 17 mph. Tornado warnings and flood watches were posted from the Louisiana coast to the Florida panhandle. The storm has brought two days of steady downpours with 10-12 inch accumulations. |
| Completed |
2002-09-26 |
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Tropical Storm Edouard
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Tropical Storm Edouard |
| Completed |
2002-09-04 |
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Tropical Storm Edouard
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Tropical Storm Edouard |
| Completed |
2002-09-04 |
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The A-Train Observes Tropica
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The A-Train Observes Tropical Storm Debby |
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The A-Train is a group of spacecraft flying in close formation allowing data taken by each instrument to be correlated to the other instruments providing data synergy. The A-Train includes Aqua, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, Parasol, and Aura. The animation begins showing the Earth with moving clouds and with a day/night terminator. Time slows down, and A-train spacecraft orbits are added during a daytime pass. The orbits progress around the globe for 12 hours. During a night time pass the camera zooms into Tropical Storm Debby as the A-train flys over on August 24, 2006. Data sets from some of the A-train's spacecraft/instruments are shown including Aqua/MODIS, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, and Aqua/AIRS. This visualization was created to support an A-Train session at the 2007 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). |
| Completed |
2007-06-27 |
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The A-Train Observes Tropica
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The A-Train Observes Tropical Storm Debby |
| Abstract |
The A-Train is a group of spacecraft flying in close formation allowing data taken by each instrument to be correlated to the other instruments providing data synergy. The A-Train includes Aqua, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, Parasol, and Aura. The animation begins showing the Earth with moving clouds and with a day/night terminator. Time slows down, and A-train spacecraft orbits are added during a daytime pass. The orbits progress around the globe for 12 hours. During a night time pass the camera zooms into Tropical Storm Debby as the A-train flys over on August 24, 2006. Data sets from some of the A-train's spacecraft/instruments are shown including Aqua/MODIS, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, and Aqua/AIRS. This visualization was created to support an A-Train session at the 2007 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). |
| Completed |
2007-06-27 |
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The A-Train Observes Tropica
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The A-Train Observes Tropical Storm Debby |
| Abstract |
The A-Train is a group of spacecraft flying in close formation allowing data taken by each instrument to be correlated to the other instruments providing data synergy. The A-Train includes Aqua, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, Parasol, and Aura. The animation begins showing the Earth with moving clouds and with a day/night terminator. Time slows down, and A-train spacecraft orbits are added during a daytime pass. The orbits progress around the globe for 12 hours. During a night time pass the camera zooms into Tropical Storm Debby as the A-train flys over on August 24, 2006. Data sets from some of the A-train's spacecraft/instruments are shown including Aqua/MODIS, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, and Aqua/AIRS. This visualization was created to support an A-Train session at the 2007 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). |
| Completed |
2007-06-27 |
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The A-Train Observes Tropica
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| Title |
The A-Train Observes Tropical Storm Debby |
| Abstract |
The A-Train is a group of spacecraft flying in close formation allowing data taken by each instrument to be correlated to the other instruments providing data synergy. The A-Train includes Aqua, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, Parasol, and Aura. The animation begins showing the Earth with moving clouds and with a day/night terminator. Time slows down, and A-train spacecraft orbits are added during a daytime pass. The orbits progress around the globe for 12 hours. During a night time pass the camera zooms into Tropical Storm Debby as the A-train flys over on August 24, 2006. Data sets from some of the A-train's spacecraft/instruments are shown including Aqua/MODIS, Cloudsat, CALIPSO, and Aqua/AIRS. This visualization was created to support an A-Train session at the 2007 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). |
| Completed |
2007-06-27 |
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SeaWiFS Tropical Storm Flore
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SeaWiFS Tropical Storm Florence |
| Abstract |
SeaWiFS viewing the Tropical Storm Florence |
| Completed |
2000-09-15 |
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SeaWiFS Tropical Storm Flore
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SeaWiFS Tropical Storm Florence |
| Abstract |
SeaWiFS viewing the Tropical Storm Florence |
| Completed |
2000-09-15 |
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SeaWiFS Tropical Storm Flore
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SeaWiFS Tropical Storm Florence |
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SeaWiFS viewing the Tropical Storm Florence |
| Completed |
2000-09-15 |
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Hurricane Dennis & Tropical
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Hurricane Dennis & Tropical Storm Cindy Aug. 27, 1999 - SeaWiFS Data |
| Completed |
1999-08-27 |
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Tropical Storm Cristobal
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Tropical Storm Cristobal |
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This animation shows Tropical Storm Cristobal on August 7, 2002 . Cristobal was located east of St. Augustine, Florida. The storm has had a maximum sustained wind speed of 45 MPH.Cristobal is expected to move east-northeast within the next 24 hours. |
| Completed |
2002-08-07 |
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Tropical Storm Cristobal
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Tropical Storm Cristobal |
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This animation shows Tropical Storm Cristobal on August 7, 2002 . Cristobal was located east of St. Augustine, Florida. The storm has had a maximum sustained wind speed of 45 MPH.Cristobal is expected to move east-northeast within the next 24 hours. |
| Completed |
2002-08-07 |
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Tropical Storm Cristobal
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Tropical Storm Cristobal |
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This animation shows Tropical Storm Cristobal on August 7, 2002 . Cristobal was located east of St. Augustine, Florida. The storm has had a maximum sustained wind speed of 45 MPH.Cristobal is expected to move east-northeast within the next 24 hours. |
| Completed |
2002-08-07 |
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Tropical Storm Adrian
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Tropical Storm Adrian |
| Description |
Tropical Storm Adrian is developing and moving steadily closer to the west coast of Central America. The storm is the first of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, which runs from May 15 to November 30, and it has the potential to inundate Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras with heavy rains. These mountainous regions are prone to mudslides and flash floods. Adrian is not a powerful storm, but it has continued to intensify since it formed on May 17. The National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] predicts that the storm may become a weak hurricane before it makes landfall late on May 19 or early on May 20. This image of Tropical Storm Adrian was taken on May 19, 2005, by one of the GOES satellites. The GOES sensors maintain a constant watch over a particular section of the Earth to provide important weather information. As such, the GOES satellite can watch the development of the storm. The animation provided above shows the storm as it became more and more organized on May 18. When it blows ashore, Adrian will become only the fifth tropical cyclone to make landfall over Guatemala or El Salvador since 1966, according to the National Hurricane Center. Of those storms, none has ever crossed Central America this early in May, making Adrian unusual. Even more unusual than the timing of this storm is its path. Typically, hurricanes that form in the Eastern Pacific curve west to dissipate over the ocean, or they may move north into Mexico. Adrian is moving east and is expected to make landfall over El Salvador and Guatemala on May 19 or May 20. Its path is predicted to take it over the same region that was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Unlike Adrian, Mitch formed in the Atlantic and crossed this section of Central America from the east. If Adrian survives its encounter with the high mountains of Central America, it could re-emerge in the Caribbean and move over Cuba and the Bahamas. While storms occasionally cross from the Atlantic into the Pacific, it is extremely rare for a storm to move into the Atlantic from the Pacific, however. Image courtesy GOES Project Science [ http://meso-a.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ ] at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, data from NOAA-GOES, animation by Rob Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory |
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Tropical Storm Adrian
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Tropical Storm Adrian |
| Description |
Tropical Storm Adrian is developing and moving steadily closer to the west coast of Central America. The storm is the first of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, which runs from May 15 to November 30, and it has the potential to inundate Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras with heavy rains. These mountainous regions are prone to mudslides and flash floods. Adrian is not a powerful storm, but it has continued to intensify since it formed on May 17. The National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] predicts that the storm may become a weak hurricane before it makes landfall late on May 19 or early on May 20. This image of Tropical Storm Adrian was taken on May 19, 2005, by one of the GOES satellites. The GOES sensors maintain a constant watch over a particular section of the Earth to provide important weather information. As such, the GOES satellite can watch the development of the storm. The animation provided above shows the storm as it became more and more organized on May 18. When it blows ashore, Adrian will become only the fifth tropical cyclone to make landfall over Guatemala or El Salvador since 1966, according to the National Hurricane Center. Of those storms, none has ever crossed Central America this early in May, making Adrian unusual. Even more unusual than the timing of this storm is its path. Typically, hurricanes that form in the Eastern Pacific curve west to dissipate over the ocean, or they may move north into Mexico. Adrian is moving east and is expected to make landfall over El Salvador and Guatemala on May 19 or May 20. Its path is predicted to take it over the same region that was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Unlike Adrian, Mitch formed in the Atlantic and crossed this section of Central America from the east. If Adrian survives its encounter with the high mountains of Central America, it could re-emerge in the Caribbean and move over Cuba and the Bahamas. While storms occasionally cross from the Atlantic into the Pacific, it is extremely rare for a storm to move into the Atlantic from the Pacific, however. Image courtesy GOES Project Science [ http://meso-a.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ ] at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, data from NOAA-GOES, animation by Rob Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory |
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Tropical Storm Adrian
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Tropical Storm Adrian |
| Description |
Only four tropical cyclones have made landfall over Guatemala or El Salvador since 1966: Tropical Storm Adrian is about to become the fifth. Adrian is the first tropical storm of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, which officially runs from May 15 through November 30. Adrian formed on May 17, 2005, making it a slightly unusual, early-season storm. No tropical cyclone has crossed Central America this early in May since records began, reports the National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ]. Even more unusual than the timing of this storm is its path. Typically, hurricanes that form in the Eastern Pacific curve west to dissipate over the ocean, or they may move north into Mexico. Adrian is moving east and is expected to make landfall over El Salvador and Guatemala on May 19. Its path is predicted to take it over the same region that was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Unlike Adrian, Mitch formed in the Atlantic and crossed this section of Central America from the east. If Adrian survives its encounter with the high mountains of Central America, it could re-emerge in the Caribbean and move over Cuba and the Bahamas. While storms occasionally cross from the Atlantic into the Pacific, it is extremely rare for a storm to move into the Atlantic from the Pacific, however. Tropical Depression Adrian formed in the afternoon of May 17. By evening, the storm had intensified into a weak tropical storm, and it continued to intensify through the night. It was during this intensification period that the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) captured this image of Adrian on May 18 at 3:22 a.m. local time (09:22 UTC). A dark band of red clouds curves around a nearly closed eye in the center of the image. The red?indicative of high rain rates?traces out a convective burst, an area of intense thunderstorms near the core. TRMM research shows that when thunderstorms such as these appear around the core, the likelihood of intensification goes up. Adrian was in fact intensifying when TRMM captured this image, making this a valuable picture of the genesis of a storm. The semi-circle of heavy rain also helped researchers identify the center of the storm early in its development. Without TRMM?s precipitation radar, the storm would simply be an amorphous blob, with no clearly defined center. The National Hurricane Center predicts that Adrian will continue to intensify, possibly into a weak hurricane, before striking the coast of Central America on May 19. Unusually warm waters?as warm as 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit)?are feeding the storm. Adrian has the potential to unleash heavy rains and floods on the mudslide-prone, mountainous coastal region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. NASA image courtesy Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption information courtesy Jeff Halverson and Steve Lang. |
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Tropical Storm Adrian
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Tropical Storm Adrian |
| Description |
Only four tropical cyclones have made landfall over Guatemala or El Salvador since 1966: Tropical Storm Adrian is about to become the fifth. Adrian is the first tropical storm of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, which officially runs from May 15 through November 30. Adrian formed on May 17, 2005, making it a slightly unusual, early-season storm. No tropical cyclone has crossed Central America this early in May since records began, reports the National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ]. Even more unusual than the timing of this storm is its path. Typically, hurricanes that form in the Eastern Pacific curve west to dissipate over the ocean, or they may move north into Mexico. Adrian is moving east and is expected to make landfall over El Salvador and Guatemala on May 19. Its path is predicted to take it over the same region that was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Unlike Adrian, Mitch formed in the Atlantic and crossed this section of Central America from the east. If Adrian survives its encounter with the high mountains of Central America, it could re-emerge in the Caribbean and move over Cuba and the Bahamas. While storms occasionally cross from the Atlantic into the Pacific, it is extremely rare for a storm to move into the Atlantic from the Pacific, however. Tropical Depression Adrian formed in the afternoon of May 17. By evening, the storm had intensified into a weak tropical storm, and it continued to intensify through the night. It was during this intensification period that the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) captured this image of Adrian on May 18 at 3:22 a.m. local time (09:22 UTC). A dark band of red clouds curves around a nearly closed eye in the center of the image. The red?indicative of high rain rates?traces out a convective burst, an area of intense thunderstorms near the core. TRMM research shows that when thunderstorms such as these appear around the core, the likelihood of intensification goes up. Adrian was in fact intensifying when TRMM captured this image, making this a valuable picture of the genesis of a storm. The semi-circle of heavy rain also helped researchers identify the center of the storm early in its development. Without TRMM?s precipitation radar, the storm would simply be an amorphous blob, with no clearly defined center. The National Hurricane Center predicts that Adrian will continue to intensify, possibly into a weak hurricane, before striking the coast of Central America on May 19. Unusually warm waters?as warm as 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit)?are feeding the storm. Adrian has the potential to unleash heavy rains and floods on the mudslide-prone, mountainous coastal region.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. NASA image courtesy Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption information courtesy Jeff Halverson and Steve Lang. |
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Tropical Storm Adrian
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Tropical Storm Adrian |
| Description |
Hurricane Adrian was zeroing in on the Pacific coast of El Salvador and Guatemala when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image on May 19, 2005, at 10:45 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time. This highly unusual storm is the first of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, having formed on May 17, just two days after the season officially started. The storm intensified over a pocket of warm water and moved east toward Guatemala and El Salvador. Adrian reached hurricane status about the time this image was acquired. Hurricane Adrian is unusual not because of its strength?it?s actually a weak storm? or because of its timing, though no tropical storm has ever struck Central America this early in May, rather, Adrian is rare because of its path. Most hurricanes that form in the Pacific head north into Mexico or west to dissipate over the ocean. Adrian moved east. Since 1966, only four cyclones have made landfall over Guatemala or El Salvador, and Adrian?s current path will make it the fifth. The outer bands of clouds were already over land when MODIS captured this image. The biggest threat that Adrian poses to Central America is from the heavy rain it may dump on the region. Rugged mountains stretch across El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and heavy rain could trigger flash floods and mudslides. If Adrian survives its encounter with the mountains of Central America, it could emerge as a tropical system in the Caribbean. Occasionally, storms will cross from the Atlantic into the Pacific, but it is rare for a storm to move from the Pacific into the Atlantic, as Adrian could. The large version of this image has a resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The image is available in additional resolutions [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2005139-0519/Adrian.A2005139.1645 ] from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Tropical Storm Adrian
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Tropical Storm Adrian |
| Description |
Adrian, the first tropical storm of the season in the eastern Pacific, became the first hurricane to hit El Salvador when it came ashore on Friday, May 19, 2005, between Acajutla and Puerto La Libertad west of San Salvador. Adrian was a minimal hurricane when it made landfall. The National Hurricane Center estimated it to have maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) when it made landfall, but the storm quickly weakened and dissipated as it moved inland over central Honduras. Unlike the widespread devastation from Hurricane Mitch in 1998 that killed 10,000 people in the region, Adrian was responsible for two deaths in Guatemala as a result of a mudslide. The above image illustrates why Adrian had a smaller impact on Central America than initially feared. The image shows rainfall totals as seen by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ]) satellite between May 16 and May 21, 2005, with storm symbols denoting Adrian?s track across El Salvador and Honduras. The highest rainfall totals for the period exceed 200 millimeters (~8 inches, shown in red) and are mainly offshore. However, similar amounts occur in far western El Salvador and southern Guatemala along the coast near where Adrian made landfall. The rainfall totals quickly drop off inland such that maximum totals are on the order of just 130 mm (5 inches, green areas) or less over central Honduras, the last position where a circulation could be identified. Adrian?s relatively small size and forward progression helped to keep rainfall amounts down. Since its launch in November 1997, TRMM has been providing a steady stream of rainfall data over the Tropics. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics, and was used to generate the rainfall totals seen here. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm Alberto
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Tropical Storm Alberto |
| Description |
Tropical Storm Alberto formed as a tropical depression early in the morning on June 10, 2006, in the Yucatan Channel. This narrow gap of ocean lies between the western end of Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. Alberto gradually gathered strength as it took a slow track northward into the Gulf. By early morning on June 11, wind strength within the storm crossed the critical threshold of 39 knots (70 kilometers per hour, 45 miles per hour), the minimum wind speed necessary to become classified as a tropical storm and hence earn a name. Thus Alberto became the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. This data visualization shows Alberto in the early stages of formation. The image depicts wind speed in color and wind direction with small barbs. White barbs point to areas of heavy rain. The highest wind speeds, shown in purple, are offset some distance from the center of the storm, which is not typical. The data were obtained by NASA's QuikSCAT satellite on June 10, 2006 at 23:40 UTC (7:40 p.m. local time). At that time, Alberto had just achieved tropical storm status. The wind direction barbs show that Alberto's center, around which the winds swirled, was located just off the Yucatan Peninsula, even though the strongest winds were over western Cuba. QuikSCAT employs a scatterometer, which sends pulses of microwave energy through the atmosphere to the ocean surface, and measures the energy that bounces back from the wind-roughened surface. The energy of the microwave pulses changes depending on wind speed and direction, giving scientists a way to monitor wind around the world. This technique does not work over land, which is why there are no measurements over Cuba and the Yucatan in the image shown here. NASA image courtesy of David Long, Brigham Young University, on the QuikSCAT Science Team [ http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/ ], and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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Tropical Storm Alberto
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Tropical Storm Alberto |
| Description |
Tropical Storm Alberto formed as a tropical depression early in the morning on June 10, 2006, in the Yucatan Channel. Alberto gradually gathered strength as it took a slow track northward into the Gulf. By early morning on June 11, wind strength within the storm crossed the critical threshold of 39 knots (70 kilometers per hour, 45 miles per hour). Thus Alberto became the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Although Alberto briefly flirted with hurricane status as wind speeds came close to the necessary 64 knots (118 km/hr, 74 mph), the system remained a strong tropical storm as of the morning of June 13, and it was projected to weaken as it comes ashore in northern Florida. This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] on the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on June 12, 2006, at 2:35 p.m. local time (18:35 UTC). The tropical storm did have hints of a spiral structure, but as in earlier satellite images, the bulk of the clouds and rainfall from the storm were east of the storm's center. This large mass of clouds in the image appears over the Florida panhandle and mainland Florida, while the wind circulation center is located roughly 200 kilometers (120 miles) to the west of Tampa. Sustained winds in the storm system were estimated to be around 110 kilometers per hour (70 miles per hour) around the time the image was captured, according to the University of Hawaii's Tropical Storm Information Center. [ http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html ] However, the less-than-hurricane-strength winds did not mean that Alberto posed no significant hazards. Rainfall totals from the storm were predicted to be between 12 to 25 centimeters (5 to 10 inches), and the storm center was also expected to spawn tornadoes once Alberto crossed land. Drought-stricken Florida was looking for rain, but the heavy downpours predicted were also causing concerns about local flooding. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Tropical Storm Alberto
| Title |
Tropical Storm Alberto |
| Description |
Tropical Storm Alberto formed as a tropical depression early in the morning on June 10, 2006, in the Yucatan Channel. By early morning on June 11, wind strength within the storm crossed the critical threshold of 39 knots (70 kilometers per hour, 45 miles per hour), the minimum wind speed necessary to become classified as a tropical storm and hence earn a name. Thus Alberto became the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Alberto briefly flirted with hurricane status as wind speeds came close to the necessary 64 knots (118 km/hr, 74 mph), but the storm never quite reached hurricane strength. As of the morning of June 14, it had come ashore in northern Florida and had been downgraded to a tropical depression. This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] on the Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on June 13, 2006, at 12:05 p.m. local time (16:05 UTC). The tropical storm at this time had an obvious a spiral structure, but the main mass of clouds was located ahead of the storm to the north and east. The storm was just half an hour from making landfall near Adams Beach, roughly 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tallahassee. Sustained winds in the storm system were estimated to be around 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) around the time the image was captured, according to the University of Hawaii's Tropical Storm Information Center. [ http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html ] Rainfall totals from the storm were predicted to be as high as 20 centimeters (8 inches) in Georgia and the Carolinas. Drought-stricken Florida was looking for rain, but the heavy downpours predicted were also causing concerns about local flooding. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Tropical Storm Alberto
| Title |
Tropical Storm Alberto |
| Description |
Tropical Storm Alberto formed as a tropical depression early in the morning on June 10, 2006, in the Yucatan Channel. This narrow gap of ocean lies between the western end of Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. Alberto gradually gathered strength as it took a slow track northward into the Gulf. By early morning on June 11, wind strength within the storm crossed the critical threshold of 39 knots (70 kilometers per hour, 45 miles per hour), the minimum wind speed necessary to become classified as a tropical storm and hence earn a name. Thus Alberto became the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] on the Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on June 11 2006, at 12:20 p.m. local time (16:20 UTC). The tropical storm did have a wispy spiral structure, centered north of the Yucatan Peninsula in this satellite image, but there was little other evidence of a well-developed storm. To the east of the storm center, a large bank of clouds sprawled over the eastern Gulf of Mexico and southern Florida. Sustained winds in the storm system were estimated to be around 70 kilometers per hour (45 miles per hour) around the time the image was captured, according to the University of Hawaii's Tropical Storm Information Center. [ http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html ] However, the less-than-hurricane-strength winds did not mean that Alberto posed no significant hazards. Rainfall totals from the storm were predicted to be between 12 to 25 centimeters (5 to 10 inches), and the storm center was also expected to spawn tornadoes once Alberto crossed land. Drought-stricken Florida was looking for rain, but the heavy downpours predicted were also causing concerns about local flooding. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Tropical Storm Alberto
| Title |
Tropical Storm Alberto |
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Alberto, the first storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall midday on June 13, 2006, along a remote section of the northeast Gulf coast of Florida. As the storm moved inland across north Florida, southeast Georgia, and South and North Carolina, it brought with it heavy but much-needed rain. Wild fires have been a problem across Florida, and the Southeast had been dry in general, so Alberto's rains were beneficial. This image shows rainfall totals from Alberto from June 10 through 14, 2006, for Florida and the surrounding region. The image is based on data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. The highest rainfall totals for the period (shown in red) were around 400 to 500 millimeters (14 to 20 inches), and they occurred over western Cuba. Widespread areas of rain cover Florida, Georgia, and South and North Carolina. Amounts in those areas are mostly less than 75 millimeters (5 inches), shown in blue. A band of 80 to 100 millimeters (6 to 8 inches) of rain (green and yellow areas) extends from central South Carolina eastward across eastern North Carolina. After making landfall, Alberto's circulation interacted with a stationary weather front that was draped across the Southeast. The bulk of the rain fell east of the storm track. This is consistent with Alberto's asymmetric structure due to the wind shear. The TRMM satellite was placed into service in November of 1997. From its low-earth orbit, TRMM has been providing valuable images and information on tropical cyclones around the tropics using a combination of passive microwave and active radar sensors, including the first precipitation radar in space. TRMM's observations are included in the near-real-time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm Alberto
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Tropical Storm Alberto |
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Alberto began as a tropical depression on the morning of June 10, 2006, having formed from an area of low air pressure over the northwestern Caribbean Sea. This depression moved generally northwestward through the Yucatan Channel between western Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula and into the south-central Gulf of Mexico. The system was rather poorly organized as a result of southwesterly wind shear. This shear pulled the weather system from the rounded shape of a typical tropical storm and gave Alberto an elongated center of circulation. Nonetheless, hurricane hunter aircraft and ships reported strong winds, and on that basis, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) classified the system as a tropical storm and gave it the name Alberto at 11:00 a.m. EDT on June 11. This visualization shows data collected by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (TRMM) at 19:42 UTC (3:42 p.m. EDT) on June 11, 2006, soon after Alberto had become a tropical storm. It maps rain intensity as viewed by the TRMM satellite. Rain rates in the center swath are from the TRMM Precipitation Radar, and rain rates in the outer swath are from the TRMM Microwave Imager. The rain rates are overlaid on infrared data from the TRMM Visible Infrared Scanner. TRMM confirms that Alberto was poorly organized. The center of circulation is well to the southwest of the heavier rain areas (darker red and green areas). In fact, there is essentially no rain in the immediate vicinity of the center. This highly asymmetric structure results from wind shear. At the time of this image, Alberto was a weak tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 kilometers per hour (45 miles per hour). After these images were taken, however, the wind shear pushing the storm off center decreased, allowing Alberto to become better organized. On June 12, Alberto had become a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 km/hr (70 mph) according to the NHC, just below hurricane strength. The system was continuing to track to the northeast towards the coast of Florida, where a hurricane watch was in effect. TRMM was launched in November 1997. From its low-earth orbit, TRMM has been providing valuable images and information on tropical weather systems using a combination of passive microwave and active radar sensors, including the first precipitation radar in space. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA. Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm Aletta
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Tropical Storm Aletta |
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Tropical Storm Aletta formed off the Pacific coast of southern Mexico on May 27, 2006, as a tropical depression. Over the next day, it gained a little strength until it reached tropical storm status, with sustained winds of around 62 kilometers per hour (39 miles per hour). Aletta never built much beyond this strength before slipping back below storm strength to be a tropical depression on May 30. Aletta stayed offshore, which often happens with cyclones that form in the Eastern Pacific. However, Aletta did get to grab the tiara of the first named storm in the Eastern Pacific of the 2006 hurricane season. This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on May 27, 2006, at 3:05 p.m. local time (20:05 UTC). The tropical storm did have a discernable spiral structure in this satellite image, but other evidence of a well-developed storm system, such as an eye structure and tightly wound spiral arms, are absent. Sustained winds in the storm system were estimated to be around 65 kilometers per hour (40 miles per hour) around the time the image was captured, according to the University of Hawaii's Tropical Storm Information Center. [ http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC. [ http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] |
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Tropical Storm Allison
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Tropical Storm Allison |
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The Atlantic Hurricane Season officially began June 1 and almost on cue Tropical Storm Allison formed June 5 in the northwest Gulf of Mexico. A slow-moving storm with sustained winds around 60 miles per hour (97 km per hour), Allison made her way steadily northwestward toward Galveston, Texas. Quite extensive in her reach, Allison packed tropical storm-force winds up to 90 miles (145 km) from the center of the storm. Like an uninvited guest who doesn't know when to leave, Allison is still hanging around a week after she formed, still drawing in moisture from the Gulf and thoroughly soaking the Gulf Coast states from Texas to Florida. In Houston, Texas, Allison dropped as much as 25 inches of rain over the weekend. She dropped another two feet of water in many parts of southern Louisiana. The storm has caused at least 20 fatalities, due to the flooding, high winds and one caused by lightning. In southeastern Texas, roughly 3,500 homes have been damaged by flood waters and many counties have been declared disaster areas. Officials estimate the damage in Texas alone will exceed $1 billion. In this true-color image acquired on June 11 by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite, the storm center appears to be located over the Mississippi-Alabama border. Allison continues to move slowly toward the northeast. Today (June 12) her effects are still being felt in the southeastern states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas. Meanwhile, the hurricane forecast team at Colorado State University, led by professor William Gray, revised its prediction for the Atlantic Hurricane season. They expect there will be 12 tropical storms this year (up from their original estimate of 10), 7 hurricanes (up from 6), and 3 major hurricanes (up from 2). Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://modland.nascom.nasa.gov/ ] Rapid Response Team |
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Tropical Storm Alpha
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Tropical Storm Alpha |
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While Hurricane Wilma was bringing high winds and rain to western Cuba, newly formed Tropical Storm Alpha was raining on eastern Cuba and the island of Hispaniola. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this image at 1:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on October 23, 2005. At this time, Alpha had developed into a tropical storm and was weakening back into a less-powerful tropical depression, even though some of the spiral structure characteristic of tropical storms can be seen in this image. Sustained winds in the storm ran as high as 55 kilometers per hour (35 miles per hour), and the storm brought substantial rains to the area. This heavy rain was responsible for three deaths reported in Haiti, in which individuals were drowned when flash flooding overwhelmed them. Alpha is the 22nd named storm of the 2005 hurricane season, exhausting the entire alphabetical list of names chosen by the National Hurricane Center. (Letters for which there are only a few possible names, such as "X" and "Q", are not used in the list of names). The naming system moves on to naming storms by letters of the greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, and so on). This season is the first time this part of the naming system has been called into use. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team. |
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Tropical Storm Ana
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Tropical Storm Ana |
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Unprecedented First Ever Atlantic Tropical Storm in April In what could be a sign of a very active Atlantic hurricane season during 2003, Tropical Storm Ana developed in the Atlantic this week. While initially forming as a subtropical low over Atlantic waters, it has now acquired tropical characteristics. This TRMM overpass early on April 22, 2003 shows the detailed structure of Ana's swirling cloud bands and the nearly complete formation of a closed eyewall. The different colors indicate rain intensity, with reds being the most intense. The official Atlantic hurricane season does not begin until June 1. Image courtesy of Hal Pierce, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. For more views of recent TRMM hurricanes, visit the website trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov |
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Tropical Storm Ana
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Tropical Storm Ana |
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Unprecedented First Ever Atlantic Tropical Storm in April In what could be a sign of a very active Atlantic hurricane season during 2003, Tropical Storm Ana developed in the Atlantic this week. While initially forming as a subtropical low over Atlantic waters, it has now acquired tropical characteristics. This TRMM overpass early on April 22, 2003 shows the detailed structure of Ana's swirling cloud bands and the nearly complete formation of a closed eyewall. The different colors indicate rain intensity, with reds being the most intense. The official Atlantic hurricane season does not begin until June 1. Image courtesy of Hal Pierce, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. For more views of recent TRMM hurricanes, visit the website trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov |
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Tropical Storm Ana
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Tropical Storm Ana |
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This image of subtropical storm Ana was taken by the SeaWiFS instrument onboard the OrbView-2 satellite on April 20, 2003, two days before Ana was classified as a tropical system. Subtropical storms are non-frontal low pressure systems that have characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones. The most common type is an upper-level cold low with circulation extending to the surface layer and maximum sustained winds generally occurring at a radius of about 100 miles or more from the center. In comparison to tropical cyclones, such systems have a relatively broad zone of maximum winds that is located farther from the center, and typically have a less symmetric wind field and distribution of convection. Tropical Storm Ana is only the second tropical or subtropical storm to form in April since forecasters began tracking hurricanes in 1871. The only other known April subtropical system formed in 1992. Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE |
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Tropical Storm Arlene
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Tropical Storm Arlene |
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Tropical Storm Arlene spins off the southwestern tip of Cuba in this QuikSCAT image captured on June 9, 2005. The vibrant colors in this image depict relative wind speed, with the highest wind speeds in red. Although it is the first tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Arlene is not a powerful storm. Its strongest winds were maintained around 35 knots about the time this image was acquired. Arlene strengthened slightly the following day, but was not predicted to become an intense hurricane before making landfall. The barbs indicate wind direction. The winds spiral around a calm center in a structure that is typical for a tropical storm, but the most powerful winds do not surround the center of the storm. Represented by red, these winds are north of the center. NASA image courtesy the QuikSCAT Science Team [ http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/ ] at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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Tropical Storm Arlene
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Tropical Storm Arlene |
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NASA?s Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) satellite captured this image of the rainfall structure inside Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, on the morning of June 10, 2005. The storm formed on June 8 as a tropical depression and became a tropical storm on June 9. The satellite shows a large cluster of thunderstorms on the northeast side of the storm?s center, where a dark red circle indicates heavy rain. Within this cluster, clouds extend up to 17 kilometers (56,000 feet), pushed high by the intense energy of the storm. When such clouds are located at the center of the storm, the energy they release feeds the storm and allows it to intensify. In this case, strong winds are blowing these energetic clouds away from the storm?s center so that heavy rain does not coincide with the wind circulation. Arlene's disorganized wind circulation means that the distinctive swirl of clouds that characterizes most tropical cyclones is not immediately obvious in this image.TRMM [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Jeffrey Halverson (NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm Banyan
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Tropical Storm Banyan |
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Tropical Storm Banyan first began forming in the northwest Pacific as a tropical depression on July 21, 2005. For the most part, Banyan has stayed away from land, wandering northward from the Mariana Islands towards Tokyo. It gained strength as it travelled, reaching a peak strength on July 24 with winds around 110 kilometers per hour (60 knots), which are dramatic but still below typhoon status. This image shows Tropical Storm Banyan somewhat past this peak on the morning of July 26, when it was traveling towards the main island of Japan and threatening Tokyo. This image was acquired at 01:25 UTC (10:25 AM Tokyo time) on July 26, 2005, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. At this time, wind speeds were dropping to around 90 km/hr (50 knots). The storm is expected to hit Tokyo late on July 26 and move along the coast through most of the following day. Heavy rain is falling from the storm, and flights in and out of Narita airport in Tokyo have been cancelled. Public transportation shut down in areas expected to be most affected. Banyan is the seventh named Pacific storm system of the year, but none have caused major damage in Japan. In 2004, a record ten typhoons struck Japan, including Typhoon Tokage which killed 90 people. It was the deadliest storm in twenty five years. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team. |
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Tropical Storm Barbara
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Tropical Storm Barbara |
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Tropical Storm Barbara, the second named storm of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season, was swirling off the coast of Mexico on May 29, 2007, when it was observed by NASA's QuikSCAT [ http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm ] satellite at 5:25 p.m. local time (00:25 UTC on May 30, 2007). According to Mexico's National Meteorological Service (Spanish language site), [ http://smn.cna.gob.mx/ ] Barbara had sustained winds that peaked around 100 kilometers/hour (55 mph) on May 29, but had eased off since then. The U.S. National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] predicted (as of May 31) that the storm most likely would not become a hurricane, but could bring heavy rain to the Mexican and Guatemalan Pacific coastal regions. This data visualization of QuikSCAT's observations shows Tropical Storm Barbara and its spiral pattern of winds. The image depicts wind speed in color and wind direction with small barbs. White barbs point to areas of heavy rain. The storm does not have a clear, rain-free center or a tight spiral shape as would be expected of a larger and more powerful storm. QuikSCAT employs a scatterometer, which sends pulses of microwave energy through the atmosphere to the ocean surface, and measures the energy that bounces back from the wind-roughened surface. The energy of the microwave pulses changes depending on wind speed and direction, giving scientists a way to monitor wind around the world. This technique does not work over land, but allows measurements in storms over oceans. The Pacific hurricane season begins on May 15 each year, and in 2007, the season had already registered two named storms by the end of the month, Alvin and Barbara. The U.S. National Hurricane Center has only twice before recorded more than one named storm in the Pacific in May (in 1984 and 1956). Hurricane forecasters have been predicting a busy season for hurricanes in both the Pacific and Atlantic basins in 2007, and the early surge of storms is consistent with this forecast. NASA image courtesy of David Long, Brigham Young University, on the QuikSCAT Science Team [ http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/ ], and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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Tropical Storm Barbara
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Tropical Storm Barbara |
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Tropical Storm Barbara, the second named storm of the 2007 Pacific hurricane season, was swirling off the coast of Mexico on May 30, 2007. According to Mexico's National Meteorological Service (Spanish language site), [ http://smn.cna.gob.mx/ ] Barbara had sustained winds that peaked around 100 kilometers per hour (55 miles per hour) on May 29, but had eased off since then. The U.S. National Hurricane Center [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] predicted (as of May 31) that the storm most likely would not become a hurricane, but could bring heavy rain to the Mexican and Guatemalan Pacific coastal regions. This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] on the Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on May 30, 2007, at 11:05 a.m. local time (17:05 UTC). The storm was a weak system by this time, with only a hint of a circular shape and no eye apparent at its center. According to the University of Hawaii's Tropical Storm Information Center, [ http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/ ] Tropical Storm Barbara had sustained winds of 65 km/hr (45 mph) at the time this image was acquired. You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of Tropical Storm Barbara [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/May2007/barbara_tmo_2007150.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/ ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] team. |
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Tropical Storm Barry
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Tropical Storm Barry |
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The official start of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season on June 1 was marked by the formation of Tropical Storm Barry in the Gulf of Mexico, the second named storm of the season. Instead of being destructive, however, Barry delivered some much-needed rain to Florida and parts of the Southeast, which were suffering from severe drought conditions and numerous wild fires. This image shows rainfall totals along the storm's path from May 31 through June 4, 2007. The highest rainfall totals were on the order of 100?150 millimeters (4?6 inches). These areas of heavy rain over south-central Florida and east-central Georgia are marked in red. Lesser amounts of rain, on the order of 50 to 75 millimeters (2?3 inches, green to yellow areas), fell over most of peninsular Florida, the eastern half of Georgia and North and South Carolina. Despite the beneficial rains, most of the area remained in a drought. The rainfall measurements shown here are from the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis, which is based on measurements taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (TRMM). [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] TRMM provides valuable images and information on tropical cyclones around the tropics using a combination of passive microwave and active radar sensors, including the first precipitation radar in space. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency, JAXA. NASA image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC). Caption provided by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Tropical Storm Bebinca
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Tropical Storm Bebinca |
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Tropical Storm Bebinca formed as a tropical depression (area of low air pressure) early in the morning on October 1, 2006, east of the Philippines. Over the course of the next day, the depression gradually moved north and east away from the island chain and gained enough power to become a storm and earn a name. Despite moving farther offshore into the Pacific, Bebinca was largely staying over waters recently cooled by the powerful Typhoon Xangsane, [ /NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13913 ] which formed in the same general area approximately a week before Bebinca. The storm system was not expected to develop into a typhoon as of October 5, according to the University of Hawaii's Tropical Storm Information Center. [ http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/Tropical/tropical.html ] This data visualization shows Bebinca just as the depression was becoming strong enough to be classified as a tropical storm. The image depicts wind speed in color and wind direction with small barbs. White barbs point to areas of heavy rain. The data were obtained by NASA's QuikSCAT [ http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm ] satellite on October 2, 2006, at 09:16 UTC (5:16 p.m. local time). Bebinca appears to be quite asymmetrically shaped at this time, with wind-direction barbs showing that the center of the storm has an area of relatively calm winds, while more intense winds are located in the southwestern portion of the storm. The center, or eye, of the storm is well-defined by wind direction, but the wind speeds are not symmetrical. Weak winds around the storm's center show that the storm system does not have the classic eye and eyewall of a typhoon, which a more intense storm would have. QuikSCAT employs a scatterometer, which sends pulses of microwave energy through the atmosphere to the ocean surface, and measures the energy that bounces back from the wind-roughened surface. The energy of the microwave pulses changes depending on wind speed and direction, giving scientists a way to monitor wind around the world. This technique does not work over land, and hence the lack of measurements over the Philippine Islands shown here. NASA image courtesy of David Long, Brigham Young University, on the QuikSCAT Science Team [ http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/ ], and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. |
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Tropical Storm Beni
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Tropical Storm Beni |
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Tropical Cyclone Beni continues to strengthen as maximum sustained winds are now estimated at 70 mph, with gusts to 104 mph. Beni continues to move towards the south at 7 mph. Visit the MODIS Rapid Response Team for a copy of this scene at MODIS' full resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Image courtesy Jeffrey Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. |
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Tropical Storm Bertha in the
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Tropical Storm Bertha in the Gulf of Mexico |
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Now downgraded to a tropical depression, Tropical Storm Bertha can be seen at full strength in this true-color image taken on August 4, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA?s Terra spacecraft. Originating in the Gulf of Mexico, the tropical storm touched land 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, which is covered by clouds in the above image. The storm continued northeast into Mississippi and Alabama, dumping up to five inches of rain in some areas and generating gusts of up to 30 miles (48 kilometers) per hour. Other than the flooding of neighborhood streets, the storm caused no damage. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory, data provided by MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Tropical Storm Bertha in the
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Tropical Storm Bertha in the Gulf of Mexico |
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Remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha dumped heavy rains across parts of Louisiana and Mississippi on August 5, 2002. As much as 6.73 inches of rain fell in Pascagoula, Miss., according to news reports. Meanwhile, another tropical depression formed off the coast of South Carolina on Aug. 5 and is gathering strength. As of Aug. 6, the storm had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, just 4 mph short of becoming a tropical storm, and was moving slowly eastward. If it continues to intensify, it will become Tropical Storm Cristobol. Elsewhere in this scene, a widespread pall of haze can be seen spanning from Arkansas and Missouri across Tennessee and Kentucky, and into Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland. Many of these regions received Code Red air quality warnings. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Tropical Storm Beryl
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Tropical Storm Beryl |
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Rains from Tropical Storm Beryl were already affecting Long Island when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (18:00 UTC) on July 20, 2006. The storm formed a loose spiral of clouds as it moved up the U.S. East Coast at 17 kilometers per hour (11 miles per hour). At the time, the storm's winds were 95 km/hr (60 mph), with stronger gusts, reported the National Hurricane Center. [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] Later in the day and into July 21, Beryl's center passed over Nantucket Island and clipped Cape Cod. The National Hurricane Center expected the storm to pass over Nova Scotia, Canada, on Friday, July 21, and strike Newfoundland the next day. Beryl was offshore of New Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut when MODIS captured this photo-like image. The silver streak over the ocean to the left of the storm is the Sun's reflection off the water. Tropical Storm Beryl formed in the northwestern Atlantic on July 18, 2006, roughly 200 kilometers (120 miles) southeast of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Later that day, the storm gathered just enough power to reach tropical storm status and become the second named storm system of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. The high-resolution image provided above is provided at the full MODIS spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2006201-0720/Beryl.A2006201.1800 ] NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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