GLOBAL TROPICAL CYCLONE TRACKS - DECEMBER 2009 !!!! IMPORTANT -- PLEASE SEE NOTE AT END OF FILE !!!! 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. The track for TC-28W below was prepared by Kevin Boyle of Stoke- on-Trent, UK. A special thanks to Kevin for his efforts. Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2009 Pacific Typhoon Season: Following is a link to Michael Padua's storm logs for the December tropical cyclone: 28W - Systems Tracked --------------- Tropical Storm (28W) 03 - 08 Dec ************************************************************************* Storm Name: None Cyclone Number: 28W 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 DEC 03 1800 18.0 N 141.0 E 1000 25 JMA bulletins 09 DEC 04 0000 19.0 N 141.0 E 1004 25 09 DEC 04 0600 20.9 N 141.4 E 1002 25 09 DEC 04 1200 21.0 N 141.0 E 1002 25 09 DEC 04 1800 22.0 N 142.0 E 1002 25 09 DEC 05 0000 24.0 N 145.0 E 1006 35 25 Only JTWC warning 09 DEC 05 0600 25.0 N 147.0 E 1006 25 09 DEC 05 1200 27.0 N 148.0 E 1006 35 Developing LOW (XTRP) 09 DEC 05 1800 28.0 N 149.0 E 1006 35 09 DEC 06 0000 29.0 N 149.0 E 1008 35 09 DEC 06 0600 31.0 N 153.0 E 1004 35 09 DEC 06 1200 32.0 N 156.0 E 1004 40 09 DEC 06 1800 33.0 N 159.0 E 1004 40 09 DEC 07 0000 35.0 N 161.0 E 1002 35 09 DEC 07 1800 41.0 N 165.0 E 998 35 No data for 0600/1200Z 09 DEC 08 0000 43.0 N 168.0 E 996 40 09 DEC 08 0600 43.0 N 171.0 E 992 45 09 DEC 08 1200 45.0 N 174.0 E 990 45 09 DEC 08 1800 45.0 N 176.0 E 988 40 Note: JTWC's coordinates for their only warning at 05/0000 UTC were 23.4N/144.6E. The sudden upgrade to tropical storm intensity was based upon Dvorak estimates of 35 kts from PGTW and SAB. But since the system was beginning extratropical transition, no further warnings were issued. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. SPECIAL NOTE!!! I have changed the header in the second MSW column to reflect a 3-min avg MSW. This is what the India Meteorological Department uses as their standard. They do not modify the Dvorak scale, but consider the reported MSW to be a 3-min avg. The difference between a true 1-min avg MSW and 3-min avg MSW would be expected to be essentially negligible. I made this change in order to have a column available to report IMD's intensity estimates, out of consideration for the fact that the office is the WMO's official RSMC for the North Indian Ocean basin. For the Northwest Pacific basin and the entire Southern Hemisphere, the 10-min avg MSW column provides a place to report the RSMC's intensity estimate for comparison purposes with JTWC's 1-min avg MSW. Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2009 North Indian Ocean Cyclone Season: Systems Tracked --------------- Cyclonic Storm WARD (05B) 10 - 15 Dec ************************************************************************* Storm Name: WARD Cyclone Number: 05B Basin: NIO Date Time Lat Lon Cent MSW MSW Remarks (GMT) Press 1-min 3-min (mb) (kts) (kts) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 DEC 10 1200 6.5 N 85.0 E 1004 25 IMA bulletin 09 DEC 10 2030 7.4 N 84.4 E 30 SAB satellite bulletin 09 DEC 10 2330 7.0 N 85.7 E 1000 30 30 JTWC satellite bulletin 09 DEC 11 0530 9.2 N 84.4 E 30 09 DEC 11 1200 9.1 N 85.2 E 35 Initial JTWC warning 09 DEC 11 1800 9.9 N 85.0 E 1000 45 35 09 DEC 12 0000 9.8 N 84.7 E 45 09 DEC 12 0600 9.8 N 84.0 E 998 50 40 09 DEC 12 1200 9.2 N 82.9 E 998 45 40 IMD: 10.0N/83.5E 09 DEC 12 1800 8.5 N 82.4 E 1000 45 40 IMD: 9.5N/83.5E 09 DEC 13 0000 9.1 N 83.1 E 45 09 DEC 13 0600 8.5 N 82.9 E 1002 35 30 09 DEC 13 1200 8.8 N 82.6 E 1002 35 30 09 DEC 13 1800 8.9 N 82.0 E 35 09 DEC 14 0000 8.9 N 81.6 E 1004 30 30 09 DEC 14 0600 8.8 N 81.3 E 30 09 DEC 14 0900 8.5 N 81.0 E 1004 25 IMD bulletins 09 DEC 14 1200 8.5 N 81.0 E 25 Inland 09 DEC 15 0000 8.5 N 80.5 E 25 Note: IMD's position at 11/0000 and 11/0300 UTC was 7.0N/84.5E. At 11/0230 UTC SAB's fix was at 8.4N/84.6E. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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 2009-2010 Southwest Indian Ocean Cyclone Season: Systems Tracked --------------- Intense Tropical Cyclone CLEO (MFR-06 / 03S) 06 - 14 Dec Severe Tropical Storm DAVID (MFR-07 / 05S) 13 - 27 Dec ************************************************************************* Storm Name: CLEO Cyclone Number: 03S Basin: SWI MFR Tropical Disturbance Number: 06 Date Time Lat Lon Cent MSW MSW Remarks (GMT) Press 1-min 10-min (mb) (kts) (kts) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 DEC 06 0000 8.5 S 84.8 E 1003 20 Locally 25 kts SE quad 09 DEC 06 0600 8.6 S 84.5 E 1002 25 09 DEC 06 1200 8.8 S 83.4 E 1002 25 09 DEC 06 1800 8.6 S 83.0 E 1002 25 09 DEC 07 0000 8.7 S 82.1 E 999 35 25 09 DEC 07 0600 8.9 S 80.5 E 998 30 09 DEC 07 1200 9.2 S 79.6 E 994 45 40 09 DEC 07 1800 9.5 S 78.4 E 987 45 09 DEC 08 0000 10.3 S 77.4 E 980 55 55 09 DEC 08 0600 10.7 S 76.4 E 947 95 90 09 DEC 08 1200 11.1 S 75.5 E 927 105 09 DEC 08 1800 11.3 S 75.0 E 935 115 105 09 DEC 09 0000 11.5 S 74.1 E 947 85 09 DEC 09 0600 12.0 S 73.3 E 970 100 70 09 DEC 09 1200 12.2 S 72.7 E 980 60 09 DEC 09 1800 12.2 S 71.4 E 980 90 55 See Note 09 DEC 10 0000 12.5 S 71.0 E 984 50 09 DEC 10 0600 13.4 S 70.5 E 984 60 50 09 DEC 10 1200 13.8 S 69.9 E 986 50 09 DEC 10 1800 14.4 S 68.9 E 988 50 45 09 DEC 11 0000 14.2 S 68.7 E 992 40 09 DEC 11 0600 13.9 S 67.7 E 1000 35 25 Locally 30 kts 09 DEC 11 1200 14.1 S 66.8 E 1002 25 " 09 DEC 11 1800 14.3 S 66.0 E 1000 25 Locally 30 kts SW quad. 09 DEC 12 0000 14.3 S 65.1 E 999 30 09 DEC 12 0600 14.5 S 64.2 E 1000 25 09 DEC 12 1200 14.4 S 63.3 E 1002 15 No data 1800Z 09 DEC 13 0000 15.0 S 62.1 E 30 JTWC warning 09 DEC 13 0600 14.9 S 61.9 E 1000 25 09 DEC 13 1200 15.9 S 61.9 E 1000 30 25 No data 1800Z 09 DEC 14 0000 17.7 S 61.7 E 30 Final JTWC warning 09 DEC 14 0600 17.6 S 60.7 E 1004 25 09 DEC 14 1200 18.7 S 60.9 E 1005 20 Locally 25 kts E quad. Note: This is a rather large disagreement between MFR and JTWC. JTWC's Dvorak rating at 09/1730 UTC was T5.0/5.0, whereas MFR's analyst was rendering T4.0/4.0. SAB's Dvorak numbers at 09/1430 and 09/2030 UTC were, respectively, T3.5/4.5 and T3.5/4.0--much closer to MFR than to JTWC. ************************************************************************* Storm Name: DAVID Cyclone Number: 05S Basin: SWI MFR Tropical Disturbance Number: 07 Date Time Lat Lon Cent MSW MSW Remarks (GMT) Press 1-min 10-min (mb) (kts) (kts) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 DEC 13 0600 10.0 S 84.1 E 1002 35 25 09 DEC 13 1200 11.1 S 83.2 E 1002 25 09 DEC 13 1800 11.4 S 82.7 E 35 JTWC warning 09 DEC 14 0600 12.8 S 81.5 E 1005 30 20 Locally 25 kts S semi. 09 DEC 14 1200 13.2 S 80.0 E 1000 30 NRL Re-analysis Data 09 DEC 14 1800 14.4 S 79.1 E 1000 30 09 DEC 15 0000 14.5 S 78.1 E 1000 30 09 DEC 15 0600 15.0 S 77.5 E 1000 30 09 DEC 15 1200 15.2 S 77.0 E 1000 30 09 DEC 15 1800 15.3 S 76.2 E 1000 30 09 DEC 16 0000 15.0 S 75.5 E 1000 30 09 DEC 16 0600 14.9 S 74.8 E 1000 30 09 DEC 16 1200 14.6 S 74.1 E 1000 30 09 DEC 16 1800 14.5 S 73.3 E 1004 25 09 DEC 17 0000 14.5 S 72.6 E 1004 25 09 DEC 17 0600 13.8 S 71.9 E 1004 25 09 DEC 17 1200 13.0 S 71.0 E 1004 25 09 DEC 17 1800 12.9 S 70.1 E 1004 25 09 DEC 18 0000 12.3 S 69.1 E 1004 25 09 DEC 18 0600 12.1 S 68.0 E 1004 25 09 DEC 18 1200 11.9 S 67.5 E 1004 25 09 DEC 18 1800 11.6 S 66.7 E 1004 25 09 DEC 19 0000 11.6 S 66.0 E 1004 25 09 DEC 19 0600 11.8 S 65.3 E 1004 25 09 DEC 19 1200 11.8 S 64.4 E 1004 25 09 DEC 19 1800 11.3 S 63.8 E 1000 30 09 DEC 20 0000 11.1 S 63.3 E 1000 30 09 DEC 20 0600 11.1 S 62.4 E 1002 35 25 JTWC/MFR resumed wrngs 09 DEC 20 1200 11.0 S 62.0 E 1002 25 09 DEC 20 1800 10.7 S 61.9 E 1000 35 25 09 DEC 21 0000 10.6 S 61.8 E 1000 25 Locally 30 kts S semi. 09 DEC 21 0600 10.6 S 62.3 E 998 35 30 Locally 35 kts E semi. 09 DEC 21 1200 10.8 S 62.9 E 995 35 Named TS David 09 DEC 21 1800 11.1 S 63.6 E 995 40 35 09 DEC 22 0000 11.3 S 64.0 E 990 40 09 DEC 22 0600 11.5 S 64.6 E 988 45 45 09 DEC 22 1200 12.0 S 66.2 E 987 45 09 DEC 22 1800 13.0 S 66.9 E 985 55 50 09 DEC 23 0000 13.3 S 67.7 E 980 55 09 DEC 23 0600 13.3 S 68.3 E 980 55 55 JTWC: 14.3S/68.3E 09 DEC 23 1200 13.5 S 68.5 E 987 50 09 DEC 23 1800 14.2 S 68.8 E 989 50 45 09 DEC 24 0000 14.4 S 69.6 E 989 45 09 DEC 24 0600 14.5 S 70.3 E 987 55 50 09 DEC 24 1200 14.7 S 70.9 E 987 50 09 DEC 24 1800 14.8 S 71.3 E 987 50 50 09 DEC 25 0000 14.2 S 70.4 E 994 40 09 DEC 25 0600 13.6 S 70.8 E 995 40 35 09 DEC 25 1200 13.7 S 71.4 E 998 30 09 DEC 25 1800 14.3 S 71.5 E 1000 30 25 Locally 30 kts S semi. 09 DEC 26 0000 14.6 S 71.3 E 1000 25 " 09 DEC 26 0600 14.9 S 70.7 E 1002 25 " 09 DEC 26 1200 13.8 S 70.0 E 1003 20 " 09 DEC 26 1800 13.9 S 69.7 E 1004 25 NRL Re-analysis data 09 DEC 27 0000 14.0 S 68.9 E 1007 20 " Note: The data from 14/1200 through 20/0000 UTC are based upon NRL re-analysis data sent to the author by Steve Young. A special thanks to Steve for sending this data. Even though my primary purpose is to provide the operational tracks, I do like to present a complete track for systems such as 05S/David which had non-continuous periods in warning status. The ex-David remnant LOW continued to linger for a few more days and meander to the west-southwest. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* NORTHWEST AUSTRALIA/SOUTHEAST INDIAN OCEAN (AUW) - Longitude 90E to 135E 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 Perth, Western Australia, and Darwin, Northern Territory. 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 Australian centres and annotations made in the Remarks column when the differences in general amounted to 40-50 nm or more. A special thanks to Michael Bath of McLeans Ridges, New South Wales, for constructing the tracks for cyclones in the Australian Region. Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2009-2010 Australian Region Cyclone Season: Systems Tracked --------------- Severe Tropical Cyclone LAURENCE (06S) 10 - 24 Dec ************************************************************************* Storm Name: LAURENCE Cyclone Number: 06S Basin: AUW (Name assigned by Darwin TCWC - Australian Tropical LOW 01U) Date Time Lat Lon Cent MSW MSW Remarks (GMT) Press 1-min 10-min (mb) (kts) (kts) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 DEC 10 0600 10.2 S 134.0 E 1002 30 09 DEC 10 1200 10.3 S 133.6 E 1004 30 09 DEC 10 1800 10.4 S 132.8 E 1003 30 09 DEC 11 0000 10.6 S 132.8 E 1005 30 09 DEC 11 0600 11.2 S 132.0 E 1003 30 09 DEC 11 1200 11.5 S 131.6 E 1005 30 09 DEC 11 1800 12.1 S 131.1 E 1003 30 09 DEC 12 0000 12.5 S 130.7 E 1001 30 1st high seas warning 09 DEC 12 0600 13.0 S 130.2 E 1002 30 09 DEC 12 1200 13.1 S 130.0 E 1004 30 09 DEC 12 1800 13.4 S 129.7 E 1000 30 09 DEC 13 0000 13.5 S 129.4 E 1000 35 Named TC Laurence 09 DEC 13 0600 12.7 S 128.0 E 998 30 35 1st JTWC warning 09 DEC 13 1200 12.5 S 127.7 E 998 35 09 DEC 13 1800 12.1 S 127.6 E 994 35 40 JTWC: 12.1S/126.9E 09 DEC 14 0000 12.5 S 128.0 E 995 40 09 DEC 14 0600 13.0 S 127.8 E 996 45 40 09 DEC 14 1200 13.2 S 127.1 E 995 40 09 DEC 14 1800 13.2 S 126.6 E 991 55 45 09 DEC 15 0000 13.6 S 126.3 E 977 65 09 DEC 15 0600 14.4 S 125.5 E 975 75 70 09 DEC 15 1200 14.8 S 124.9 E 960 85 09 DEC 15 1800 15.0 S 124.5 E 954 115 90 09 DEC 16 0000 15.4 S 124.2 E 933 110 09 DEC 16 0600 16.1 S 124.1 E 945 90 100 09 DEC 16 1200 16.5 S 124.0 E 957 85 Moved inland 09 DEC 16 1800 16.6 S 124.1 E 974 65 65 Inland 09 DEC 17 0000 16.8 S 124.3 E 985 50 09 DEC 17 0600 17.1 S 124.4 E 992 40 09 DEC 17 1200 17.4 S 124.5 E 993 35 09 DEC 17 1800 17.5 S 124.5 E 993 35 09 DEC 18 0000 17.1 S 124.7 E 993 35 09 DEC 18 0600 17.3 S 124.0 E 998 30 Ex-TC 09 DEC 18 1200 17.1 S 123.6 E 998 35 30 JTWC resumes warnings 09 DEC 18 1800 16.7 S 122.8 E 998 30 09 DEC 19 0000 16.7 S 122.4 E 998 35 30 Back over water 09 DEC 19 0600 16.9 S 122.2 E 987 45 Regenerated 09 DEC 19 1200 17.3 S 121.8 E 984 35 55 09 DEC 19 1800 17.6 S 121.2 E 980 60 09 DEC 20 0000 17.8 S 121.1 E 980 55 60 09 DEC 20 0600 18.3 S 120.7 E 970 65 09 DEC 20 1200 18.5 S 120.4 E 965 80 70 09 DEC 20 1800 18.7 S 120.4 E 952 85 09 DEC 21 0000 19.0 S 120.4 E 939 100 100 09 DEC 21 0600 19.5 S 120.6 E 929 110 Crossing coast at 07Z 09 DEC 21 1200 20.0 S 120.8 E 927 70 110 Inland/Final JTWC wrng 09 DEC 21 1800 20.6 S 121.0 E 956 80 Final high seas warning 09 DEC 22 0000 21.1 S 121.2 E 962 70 09 DEC 22 0600 21.8 S 121.6 E 973 55 09 DEC 22 1200 22.7 S 122.5 E 980 50 09 DEC 22 1800 23.6 S 123.7 E 988 40 09 DEC 23 0000 24.3 S 124.7 E 991 35 09 DEC 23 0300 24.7 S 125.7 E 995 30 Final tech bulletin 09 DEC 23 0600 26.0 S 128.0 E 996 NRL re-analysis data 09 DEC 23 1200 27.0 S 130.0 E 1000 09 DEC 23 1800 26.0 S 134.0 E 1001 09 DEC 24 0000 26.0 S 136.0 E 1001 ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* 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. A special thanks to Michael Bath of McLeans Ridges, New South Wales, for constructing the tracks for cyclones in the South Pacific basin. Following is the link to the Wikipedia page for the 2009-2010 South Pacific Cyclone Season: Systems Tracked --------------- Tropical Cyclone MICK (01F/04P) 11 - 20 Dec ************************************************************************* Storm Name: MICK Cyclone Number: 04P Basin: SPA Fiji Tropical Disturbance Number: 01F Date Time Lat Lon Cent MSW MSW Remarks (GMT) Press 1-min 10-min (mb) (kts) (kts) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 DEC 11 2100 11.5 S 171.5 E 1000 25 09 DEC 12 0000 11.5 S 171.9 E 1000 30 SAB: 11.7S/174.8E 09 DEC 12 0600 12.4 S 174.6 E 999 30 09 DEC 12 1200 12.4 S 176.4 E 999 35 30 JTWC: 13.3S/175.5E 09 DEC 12 1800 13.3 S 175.5 E 998 30 Some peripheral gales 09 DEC 13 0000 13.9 S 175.4 E 995 45 35 Named TC Mick 09 DEC 13 0600 14.8 S 175.8 E 995 35 09 DEC 13 1200 15.5 S 176.1 E 995 55 35 09 DEC 13 1800 16.4 S 176.5 E 987 45 09 DEC 14 0000 17.3 S 177.3 E 975 65 60 JTWC: 17.5S/177.7E 09 DEC 14 0600 18.2 S 178.1 E 975 60 09 DEC 14 1200 18.4 S 178.4 E 975 55 60 09 DEC 14 1800 19.5 S 179.6 E 985 45 09 DEC 15 0000 19.6 S 179.8 E 990 40 40 09 DEC 15 0600 20.3 S 178.9 W 999 30 Some peripheral gales 09 DEC 15 1200 20.0 S 177.8 W 1000 35 30 " 09 DEC 15 1800 20.1 S 176.8 W 1004 25 09 DEC 16 0000 20.8 S 175.5 W 1006 NRL Re-analysis Data 09 DEC 16 0600 20.9 S 173.8 W 1005 09 DEC 16 1200 22.2 S 172.7 W 1006 09 DEC 16 1800 22.6 S 172.4 W 1007 09 DEC 17 0000 24.7 S 168.9 W 1005 09 DEC 17 0600 25.7 S 167.2 W 1003 09 DEC 17 1200 27.7 S 165.4 W 1001 09 DEC 17 1800 29.9 S 164.9 W 997 09 DEC 18 0000 31.9 S 165.1 W 992 09 DEC 18 0600 32.3 S 165.0 W 981 09 DEC 18 1200 32.2 S 164.9 W 988 09 DEC 18 1800 32.3 S 164.8 W 989 09 DEC 19 0000 32.7 S 162.8 W 989 09 DEC 19 0600 32.7 S 162.3 W 989 09 DEC 19 1200 34.6 S 161.8 W 990 09 DEC 19 1800 35.0 S 160.9 W 991 09 DEC 20 0000 35.3 S 160.6 W 991 09 DEC 20 0600 35.9 S 160.6 W 993 09 DEC 20 1200 37.2 S 159.8 W 995 09 DEC 20 1800 37.6 S 159.7 W 996 Note: A special thanks to Steve Young for sending the NRL re-analysis data for the post-warning stage of TC Mick. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* !!!!!! 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: 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: SPECIAL NOTE: Back issues of the global tropical cyclone summaries and monthly cyclone track files can be obtained at the following websites: PREPARED BY: Gary Padgett garyp@alaweb.com Kevin Boyle michaelpace@btinternet.com Michael Bath mbath@ozemail.com.au SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Michael V. Padua michaelpadua@hotmail.com webmaster@typhoon2000.ph ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* Posted: 07.07.10 / Typhoon2000.com, Typhoon2000.ph, Maybagyo.com