From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Mon Sep 6 20:31:03 2010 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by cozumel.ust.hk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o86CV2rW010423 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 20:31:03 +0800 Received: from vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.113]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o862qJ3h001569; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:30:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3248128 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:30:39 -0500 Received: from relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (relay10.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.10]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o86CUdnL013256 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:30:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay10.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o86CUWZG015480 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:30:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0DDEC405001E; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:30:32 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Score: 2 X-Spam-Details: rule=no-quarantine_notspam policy=no-quarantine score=2 spamscore=2 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1009060058 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: * Message-ID: <20100906123032.0DDEC405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:30:32 -0500 Reply-To: wxmaster@COX.NET Sender: WX-TROPL Tropical Storm and Hurricane WX products From: LDM Weather Subject: Central Pacific: Satellite Interpretation Message To: WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Precedence: list 869 ATHW40 PHFO 061230 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1230 UTC MON SEP 06 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1200 UTC SEPTEMBER 06 2010 PATCHES OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN CUMULUS CLOUDS HAD INCREASED IN NUMBER OVERNIGHT AROUND THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. THESE LOW CLOUDS WERE COMMON FROM 17N TO 30N BETWEEN 150W AND THE DATELINE. FURTHER EAST...THE LOW CLOUDS BECAME MORE NUMEROUS AND MORE STABLE. TRADE WINDS WERE CARRYING THE CLOUDS NEAR THE ISLANDS WEST AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW NEAR 31N 169W WAS MOVING WEST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING NEAR ITS CENTER. AND A FEW WISPY STRANDS OF CIRRUS ENCIRCLED THIS UPPER LOW. ANOTHER UPPER LOW NEAR 23N 179.5E HAD JUST DRIFTED WEST ACROSS THE INTERNATIONAL DATELINE. SOUTHEAST OF THE TWO UPPER LOWS...THE UPPER WIND FLOW FROM THE SOUTHWEST WAS CARRYING A FEW PATCHES OF MOSTLY SCATTERED CIRRUS CLOUDS TOWARD KAUAI. THESE HIGH CLOUDS WERE LOCATED MAINLY FROM 17N TO 23N BETWEEN 170W AND 160W. YET ANOTHER UPPER LOW WAS NORTH OF THE STATE IN THE VICINITY OF 32N 151W. THIS LOW WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. ITS ASSOCIATED TROUGH AXIS EXTENDED FROM THE LOW TO 26N 154W. SOUTHEAST OF THE STATE...A NEARLY STATIONARY SURFACE TROUGH SAT FROM ROUGHLY 10N 150W TO 13N 140W WITHIN A NORTHWARD EXTENSION OF THE ITCZ. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED WITHIN 100 MILES EITHER SIDE OF THE ITCZ...CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 08N 180E TO 06N 155W TO 13N 140W. EAST OF 140W...THE ITCZ TURNED BACK TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST. THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE TROUGH. HIGHEST STORM TOPS WERE AROUND 47000 FEET. $$ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from WX-TROPL send e-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU with "unsub wx-tropl" in the body of your message. For help with WX-TROPL write to cnovy@cox.net. For more information on tropical weather products, see the NHC Homepage at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov.