What is does a Troical Deppression become after death?

[Astro_man92]

What does a tropical depression become after death???


Here is sort of what i'm thinking

|Tropical Wave|Tropical Low|Tropical Invest|Tropical Depression|Tropical Storm|Hurricane|
And back down
|Hurricane|Tropical Storm|Tropical Depression|Tropical Invest|Tropical Low|Tropical wave|


or does it just go from Tropical Depression to nothing?

please tell me if I made and mistakes in the visialization. ( I'm ready for 100's of em' )

I didn't use yellow (in place of brown) because yellow was to bright so I used brown

[gkrangers]

It depends on the situation.

Lets take TD10 for example...

It could weaken and become a tropical low...and then the circulation could open up into a wave. (Just an example of what a storm out in the open tropics could do..away from land and cold water, etc)

Now, lets say a storm like Irene...its going to become a strong extratropical storm.

It'll be an area of low pressure moving over cold water...so it won't have the warm tropical characteristics, but will still be an area of low pressure with strong winds.

Now..storms can also collide with a frontal boundary...the circulation can eventually be destroyed and all the energy will be absorbed by the front.

Just a few examples..

Invest isn't a way to characterize a storm. Invest is just showing that a tropical wave or tropical low is being watched for tropical cyclone formation.

So its not in the heirarchy of classification.

[MetroMike]

What does a tropical depression become after death???

I would simply call it an open wave.

[FritzPaul]

It depends on how it dies:

If it dies over the warm water (ex Sheer, SAL, etc), then it could go from a depression to an open wave (I'm sure you saw the debating of that w/ Irene )

If it dies over land, then it would be (I think) a low pressure system referred to as the reminents of X (X = TC's name).

If it dies in the northern Atlantic, it would be classified as extratropical because the storm would lose it tropical characteristics due to the colder SST's.

Hope this helps & please correct me if I'm wrong as I am not a Pro

<Paul>

[Astro_man92]

Thank you that really does help

[P.K.]

It depends on how it dies:
If it dies in the northern Atlantic, it would be classified as extratropical because the storm would lose it tropical characteristics due to the colder SST's.

Which is what we get up here sometimes. (Ex-Harvey is centred at about 40N 20W)

[wxmann_91]

In the EPac, 99/100 times a remnant low. In the northern Atlantic, 99/100 times an extratropical storm. In the tropical Atlantic, 9/10 an open wave. On land, it is usually absorbed by a frontal system or becomes extratropical.

[Astro_man92]

What about hurricane dennis?

[wxmann_91]

What about hurricane dennis?

I think it degenerated into a remnant low. That usually doesn't happen unless a storm slows down. So yeah that is the third option for a storm dying over land. I think it happened to Emily too as she hit the Sierra Madre Mountains.