First anniversary of historic South Atlantic Hurricane

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First anniversary of historic South Atlantic Hurricane

#1 Postby cycloneye » Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:50 am

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25 of March 2004

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26 of March 2004

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27 of March 2004

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28 of March Landfall at Brazil

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/res ... lcane.html

Great sat loop of Catarina first known south Atlantic Hurricane.

This storm was called "Catarina" by some meteorologists, since it made landfall south of the Island of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
This may have been the first hurricane observed in the Southern Atlantic Ocean--it certainly had a well defined eye and eyewall.
The US National Hurrican Center classified this system as a category 1 "hurricane". However, this intensity was discounted by Brazilian meteorologists, who only rated it at perhaps tropical storm intensity. No aircraft flew into this storm to measure central pressure and winds.
The closest surface reporting stations for which we received data were SBFL (Florianopolis) and SBPA (Porto Alegre). The maximum sustained wind speed reported on SBFL hourly observations was 17 knots (19.6 mph) at 28/0700Z and SBPA reported 23 knots (26.5 mph) at 28/1600Z. It looked like the eye made landfall somewhere between these two sites.
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#2 Postby KWT » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:21 am

some lovely images there.I must admit that system did take everyone by suprise,but no doubts in my mind that it was a hurricane,it had a good eye(certainly not what you'd come to expect in a tropical storm system!)and also a visable eyewall.When it made landfall I believe it had gusts reaching 90Mph.A small but very nice little system and most certainly I think the first witnessed south-atlantic hurricane.Thanks cycloneye for sharing those great pics and loop.
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#3 Postby Derek Ortt » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:24 am

I saw a best track and it was a category 2 hurricane at landfall with 85KT winds. Damage photos also indicate that the storm was above category 1 intensity
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#4 Postby P.K. » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:45 am

Ths one? http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/brazil/other/BestTrack.html
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#5 Postby Andrew92 » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:48 am

KWT wrote:some lovely images there.I must admit that system did take everyone by suprise,but no doubts in my mind that it was a hurricane,it had a good eye(certainly not what you'd come to expect in a tropical storm system!)and also a visable eyewall.When it made landfall I believe it had gusts reaching 90Mph.A small but very nice little system and most certainly I think the first witnessed south-atlantic hurricane.Thanks cycloneye for sharing those great pics and loop.


Or, as the Brazilians called it last year, a very strong, never-before-seen extratropical storm. I kid you not.

Nah, it was a hurricane.

-Andrew92
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#6 Postby HURAKAN » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:50 am

DTG LAT/LON FT/CI/TREND
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22/1700Z 31.4S/37.5W Not CLASSIFIED
22/1800Z 31.3S/37.2W Not CLASSIFIED
22/2030Z 30.8S/36.7W Not CLASSIFIED
22/2300Z 30.5S/36.5W Not CLASSIFIED
23/0231Z 30.0S/36.6W Not CLASSIFIED
23/0710Z 29.8S/36.7W Not CLASSIFIED
23/0810Z 29.7S/37.0W Not CLASSIFIED
23/1131Z 29.7S/37.4W Not CLASSIFIED
23/1431Z 29.8S/37.6W Not CLASSIFIED
23/1731Z 29.9S/37.9W Not CLASSIFIED
23/2031Z 29.8S/38.2W Not CLASSIFIED
23/2331Z 29.7S/38.4W Not CLASSIFIED
24/0231Z 29.5S/38.7W Not CLASSIFIED
24/0710Z 29.5S/39.0W Not CLASSIFIED
24/0831Z 29.2S/39.2W Not CLASSIFIED
24/1131Z 29.0S/39.3W ST2.5/2.5/INIT OBS (Classified SUBTROPICAL)
24/1431Z 29.0S/39.3W
24/1731Z 28.9S/39.4W ST2.5/2.5/STT S0.0 (Classified SUBTROPICAL)
24/2031Z 29.0S/39.4W
24/2301Z 29.0S/39.6W ST3.0/3.0/STT D0.5 (Classified SUBTROPICAL)
25/0231Z 29.0S/39.8W
25/0530Z 29.2S/40.2W ST3.0/3.0/D0.5 18 HRS (Classified SUBTROPICAL)
25/0830Z 29.3S/40.6W
25/1131Z 28.7S/41.1W ST3.0/3.0/D0.5 24 HRS (Classified SUBTROPICAL)
25/1431Z 28.8S/41.4W
25/1731Z 28.7S/41.8W ST3.5/3.5/D1.0 24 HRS (Classified SUBTROPICAL)
25/1931Z 28.7S/42.1W SYSTEM BECAME TROPICAL (Closed eye)
25/2031Z 28.8S/42.2W
25/2301Z 28.7S/42.5W T4.0/4.0/D1.0 24 HRS
26/0231Z 28.6S/42.9W
26/0531Z 28.6S/43.2W T4.5/4.5/D1.5 24 HRS
26/0831Z 28.7S/43.3W
26/1100Z 28.8S/43.7W T4.5/4.5/D1.5 24 HRS
26/1430Z 28.9S/44.1W
26/1730Z 28.7S/44.4W T4.5/4.5/D1.0 24 HRS
26/2030Z 29.1S/44.8W
26/2300Z 29.1S/44.9W T4.5/4.5.D0.5 24 HRS
27/0230Z 29.2S/45.2W
27/0530Z 29.4S/45.7W T4.5/4.5 S0.0 24 HRS
27/0830Z 29.4S/45.9W
27/1140Z 29.5S/46.3W T5.0/5.0 D0.5 24 HRS
27/1431Z 29.5S/46.8W
27/1731Z 29.6S/47.4W T4.5/5.0 S0.0 24 HRS
27/2039Z 29.6S/47.9W
27/2339Z 29.4S/48.3W T4.5/5.0 S0.0 24 HRS
28/0240Z 29.3S/49.0W
28/0531Z 29.2S/49.8W T4.5/5.0 S0.0 24 HRS
28/0831Z 28.8S/50.0W
28/1131Z 28.7S/50.0W T4.0/4.5 W0.5 24 HRS
28/1431Z 28.6S/50.1W
28/1731Z 28.4S/50.9W T3.0/4.0 W1.5 24 HRS
28/2031Z 28.5S/51.2W
28/2331Z 28.7S/51.3W T2.0/3.0 W2.5 24 HRS
29/0231Z 28.8S/51.4W
29/0531Z 28.8S/51.4W T1.5/2.0 W3.0 24 HRS

Around a year ago everyone in the Scientific Community started to look more toward the subtropics of the South Atlantic Ocean. A mysterious cyclone developed near the Brazilian eastern coast and for many there was only one astonishing classification, "a hurricane." But that was impossible, it was believed the South Atlantic was completely infertile, "Catarina" proved that things are not always what they seem to be. This cyclone proved that even in inhospitable areas, if conditions come together, great and amazing things can happen.
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#7 Postby cycloneye » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:20 pm

You are right 100% Sandy about that.
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