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Monthly Global Tropical Cyclone Tracks November 2010
[Summaries and Track Data] [Prepared by Gary Padgett]

             GLOBAL TROPICAL CYCLONE TRACKS - NOVEMBER 2010

      !!!! 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
                          ----------------------

     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 2010 Pacific
  Typhoon Season:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pacific_typhoon_season>

     Following is a link to Michael Padua's storm log for TD-18W:

  http://www.typhoon2000.ph/stormarchives/2010/stormlogs/outsidePAR/18W10_log.htm>
 

                             Systems Tracked
                             ---------------

   Tropical Depression                                 03 - 05 Nov
   Tropical Depression (18W)                           12 - 14 Nov
    
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Storm Name: None                  Cyclone Number: None    Basin: NWP
PAGASA Internal Name: None        JMA Tropical Storm Number: None

   Date   Time   Lat      Lon    Cent  MSW   MSW        Remarks
          (GMT)                 Press 1-min 10-min
                                 (mb) (kts) (kts)
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10 NOV 03 0600  12.0 N  111.0 E  1006         25  JMA bulletins
10 NOV 03 1200  12.0 N  111.0 E  1008         25
10 NOV 03 1800  12.0 N  111.0 E  1006         25
10 NOV 04 0000  12.3 N  110.4 E  1006         30
10 NOV 04 0600  12.6 N  110.7 E  1006         30
10 NOV 04 1200  12.8 N  110.5 E  1006         30
10 NOV 04 1800  13.1 N  110.8 E  1006         30
10 NOV 05 0600  13.0 N  111.0 E  1006         25  No data for 0600Z
10 NOV 05 1200  13.0 N  112.0 E  1008         20

Note: To the author's knowledge, JMA was the only agency which classified
this system as a tropical depression.  JTWC did issue a TCFA for the
system.

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Storm Name: None                  Cyclone Number: 18W     Basin: NWP
PAGASA Internal Name: None        JMA Tropical Storm Number: None

   Date   Time   Lat      Lon    Cent  MSW   MSW        Remarks
          (GMT)                 Press 1-min 10-min
                                 (mb) (kts) (kts)
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10 NOV 12 1800  13.1 N  111.4 E  1006   25    25
10 NOV 13 0000  13.4 N  111.2 E  1006   25    25  JMA: 13.0N/112.0E
10 NOV 13 0600  13.7 N  111.1 E  1004   25    30  
10 NOV 13 1200  14.1 N  110.4 E  1006   25    30  JMA: 13.9N/111.3E
10 NOV 13 1800  14.4 N  109.7 E  1006   25    30  JMA: 14.1N/111.1E
10 NOV 14 0000  14.8 N  109.0 E  1008   25    30  JMA: 14.2N/110.4E
10 NOV 14 0600  15.0 N  108.0 E  1010         25  Inland/JMA bulletin

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NORTH INDIAN OCEAN (NIO) - Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea


                          Sources of Information
                          ----------------------

     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.   Occasionally some information may
  have been gleaned from the daily tropical weather outlooks and other
  bulletins issued by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), which
  is the World Meteorological Organization's Regional Specialised Meteor-
  ological Centre for the basin.
 
     The reported maximum sustained winds are based on a 1-minute
  averaging period, which is used by all U. S. civilian and military
  weather services for tropical cyclone warnings.     For synoptic
  observations in the North Indian Ocean region, both 10-minute and
  3-minute average winds are employed, but IMD makes no attempt to
  modify the Dvorak scale for estimating tropical cyclone intensity;
  hence, a 1-minute average MSW is implied.

     Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2010 North
  Indian Ocean Cyclone Season:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_North_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season>


                            Systems Tracked
                            ---------------

   Severe Cyclonic Storm JAL (BOB 05 / 05B)            31 Oct - 08 Nov                                                     

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Storm Name: JAL                   Cyclone Number: 05B     Basin: NIO
IMD Depression Identifier: BOB 05

   Date   Time   Lat      Lon    Cent  MSW   MSW        Remarks
          (GMT)                 Press 1-min 3-min
                                 (mb) (kts) (kts)
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10 OCT 31 0000   6.5 N  106.0 E               20  Thai Met. Dept. track
10 OCT 31 0600   6.5 N  105.5 E               27
10 OCT 31 1200   6.5 N  105.0 E               27
10 OCT 31 1800   6.5 N  104.0 E               27
10 NOV 01 0000   6.5 N  103.5 E               27
10 NOV 01 0600   6.8 N  102.5 E               30
10 NOV 01 1200   7.1 N  101.3 E               30
10 NOV 01 1800   7.8 N  100.0 E               27
10 NOV 02 0000   7.7 N   99.2 E               27
10 NOV 02 0600   8.1 N   98.8 E               25
10 NOV 02 1200   8.5 N   97.2 E               25
10 NOV 02 1800   8.4 N   95.9 E               25
10 NOV 03 0000   8.4 N   94.5 E               30
10 NOV 03 0600   8.5 N   94.0 E               30
10 NOV 03 1200   8.0 N   93.0 E               30
10 NOV 03 1800   8.5 N   92.5 E               30  
10 NOV 04 0000   8.0 N   92.0 E  1002         25  IMD bulletin
10 NOV 04 0300   8.5 N   91.0 E  1002         25        "
10 NOV 04 1200   8.5 N   90.0 E  1002         25        "
10 NOV 04 1800   9.0 N   88.9 E  1002   35    25  IMD: 8.5N/89.5E
10 NOV 05 0000   9.3 N   88.6 E  1000   45    30  
10 NOV 05 0600   9.4 N   87.9 E   998   45    35
10 NOV 05 1200   9.6 N   87.1 E         45
10 NOV 05 1800   9.8 N   86.4 E         55
10 NOV 06 0000  10.5 N   85.9 E         65    
10 NOV 06 0600  10.6 N   85.7 E         65
10 NOV 06 1200  11.0 N   84.9 E         65
10 NOV 06 1800  11.4 N   84.3 E         70
10 NOV 07 0000  12.1 N   83.0 E         70
10 NOV 07 0600  12.8 N   81.8 E         65        IMD: 12.5N/82.5E
10 NOV 07 1200  12.8 N   81.1 E         50
10 NOV 07 1800  13.4 N   80.4 E         35        Inland
10 NOV 08 0000  14.0 N   79.0 E               25  IMD bulletin 

Note: The portion of the track from the Thai Meteorological Department
was sent to the author by Jason Rees of London.  A special thanks to 
Jason for sending me that information.  I do not have available the IMD's
warnings for the most intense portion of Jal's history which include the
estimated MSW and CP; however, the Wikipedia report states that the
highest 3-min avg MSW assigned was 60 kts--in close agreement with JTWC's
peak 1-min avg MSW. 

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SOUTHWEST INDIAN OCEAN (SWI) - South Indian Ocean West of Longitude 90E


                          Sources of Information
                          ----------------------

     The track coordinates as well as the central pressure and 10-minute
  average maximum sustained wind estimates were obtained from warnings
  issued by Meteo France's Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre on Reunion
  Island (MFR), which is the World Meteorological Organization's Regional
  Specialised Meteorological Centre for the basin.  The 1-minute average
  maximum sustained wind estimates were taken from warnings issued by the
  Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) of the U. S. Air Force and Navy,
  located at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  The center position coordinates from
  JTWC were compared with those from MFR and annotations made in the
  Remarks column when the differences in general amounted to 40-50 nm
  or more.

     Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2010-2011
  Southwest Indian Ocean Cyclone Season:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season>


                             Systems Tracked
                             ---------------

   Tropical Cyclone ABELE (MFR-02 / 03S)               28 Nov - 04 Dec         

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Storm Name: ABELE                 Cyclone Number: 03S     Basin: SWI
MFR Tropical Disturbance Number: 02       Australian Low: 02U

   Date   Time   Lat      Lon    Cent  MSW   MSW        Remarks
          (GMT)                 Press 1-min 10-min
                                 (mb) (kts) (kts)
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10 NOV 28 2330  11.7 S   85.9 E         30        JTWC satellite bulletin
10 NOV 29 0530  11.4 S   85.3 E         30                  "
10 NOV 29 1200  12.0 S   85.7 E  1000   35    25  JTWC: 11.9S/85.0E
10 NOV 29 1800  12.1 S   85.9 E  1000         25  Locally 30 kts SW quad
10 NOV 30 0000  12.7 S   86.1 E   998   35    25  JTWC: 12.6S/84.3E
10 NOV 30 0600  12.6 S   85.3 E   997         30
10 NOV 30 1200  13.3 S   85.7 E   998   35    30
10 NOV 30 1800  13.5 S   85.7 E   998         30
10 DEC 01 0000  14.2 S   85.8 E   997   35    30
10 DEC 01 0600  14.8 S   85.4 E   997         30  Locally 35 kts
10 DEC 01 1200  15.3 S   85.9 E   988   40    45
10 DEC 01 1800  16.2 S   86.2 E   982         50
10 DEC 02 0000  16.3 S   86.4 E   984   45    50
10 DEC 02 0600  16.6 S   87.4 E   980   60    55
10 DEC 02 1200  17.2 S   88.6 E   973         70
10 DEC 02 1800  17.6 S   89.5 E   975   75    65
10 DEC 03 0000  18.4 S   90.2 E   987         60
10 DEC 03 0600  19.1 S   91.5 E   990   50    45  BoM Perth warnings
10 DEC 03 1200  19.9 S   92.9 E   992         40
10 DEC 03 1800  20.9 S   93.6 E   997   30    40
10 DEC 04 0000  22.0 S   93.9 E  1000         30  Some gales S quadrants
10 DEC 04 0530  22.4 S   93.9 E         25        JTWC satellite bulletin
10 DEC 04 1130  23.0 S   94.6 E         25        Final JTWC sat fix

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SOUTH PACIFIC (SPA) - South Pacific Ocean East of Longitude 160E


                        Sources of Information
                        ----------------------

     The track coordinates as well as the central pressure and 10-minute
  average maximum sustained wind estimates were obtained from warnings
  issued by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centres at Nadi, Fiji, and
  Wellington, New Zealand.  The 1-minute average maximum sustained wind
  estimates were taken from warnings issued by the Joint Typhoon Warning
  Center (JTWC) of the U. S. Air Force and Navy, located at Pearl Harbor,
  Hawaii.  The center position coordinates from JTWC were compared with
  those from the Southern Hemisphere centres and annotations made in the
  Remarks column when the differences in general amounted to 40-50 nm
  or more.

     Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2010-2011
  South Pacific Cyclone Season:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_South_Pacific_cyclone_season>


                              Systems Tracked
                              ---------------

   Tropical Depression (01F)                           24 - 30 Nov

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Storm Name: None                  Cyclone Number: None    Basin: SPA
Fiji Tropical Disturbance Number: 01F

   Date   Time   Lat      Lon    Cent  MSW   MSW        Remarks
          (GMT)                 Press 1-min 10-min
                                 (mb) (kts) (kts)
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10 NOV 24 1800  15.4 S  170.2 E  1005
10 NOV 24 2100  14.3 S  164.2 E  1005
10 NOV 25 0600  15.4 S  166.1 E  1005             Depression
10 NOV 25 1800  14.6 S  166.0 E  1005
10 NOV 26 0000  15.2 S  167.0 E  1005
10 NOV 26 0600  16.0 S  170.8 E  1003
10 NOV 26 1800  16.1 S  171.4 E  1003         30
10 NOV 27 0000  16.6 S  172.5 E  1003
10 NOV 27 0600  16.7 S  172.7 E  1002         35
10 NOV 27 1200  16.9 S  174.2 E  1003
10 NOV 27 1800  17.5 S  172.5 E  1000         35
10 NOV 28 0000  17.7 S  173.6 E  1000
10 NOV 28 0600  18.6 S  173.6 E  1000         35
10 NOV 28 1800  19.5 S  175.5 E   999         35
10 NOV 29 0000  22.1 S  177.8 E  1000
10 NOV 29 0600  22.0 S  178.1 E  1000         35
10 NOV 29 0600  22.6 S  178.2 E  1000
10 NOV 29 1800  24.8 S  179.3 W  1000         35 
10 NOV 30 0000  22.6 S  179.3 E  1000
10 NOV 30 0600  24.0 S  180.0 E  1000

Note: Even though gales were forecast for this system, it was not
classified as a tropical cyclone.  The definition of a TC employed by
Fiji requires that gales be present in at least one quadrant but close
to the center.  The warnings for TD-01F indicated that gales were at
some distance from the center.

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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
  ---------------------------------------

     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
  -----------------------

     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
  ---------------------

     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
  --------------------------------

     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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Document: trak1011.htm
Updated: 20 January 2011

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