From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Sat Sep 11 13:50:45 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 o8B5ohQM019732 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:50:44 +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 o8AM0sbI022418; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:49:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3337180 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:49:49 -0500 Received: from relay02.cites.uiuc.edu (relay02.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.196.4]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8B5nkMP005697 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:49:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay02.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8B5ndWi008799 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:49:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5BACF405001E; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:49:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Details: rule=no-quarantine_notspam policy=no-quarantine score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-1005130000 definitions=main-1009100221 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100911054939.5BACF405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:49:39 -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 213 ATHW40 PHFO 110549 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0540 UTC SAT SEP 11 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC SEPTEMBER 11 2010 AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH IS NEARLY STATIONARY AROUND 700 MILES NORTHWEST OF KAUAI THIS EVENING. THE TROUGH IS CONNECTED TO AN UPPER LOWS LOCATED AT 38N 150W. THIS PUT THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS UNDER A SOUTHWESTERLY WIND FLOW...WHICH ALSO HAPPEN TO CONTAIN CIRRUS CLOUDS. THE CIRRUS IS AFFECTING MAINLY KAUAI COUNTY. THE CIRRUS IS DEBRIS FROM THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OCCURRING AROUND THE MARSHALL ISLANDS LOCATED 1700 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KAUAI. AS FOR THE MAIN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS...LOW CLOUD COVERAGE IS BASICALLY SCATTERED TO LOCALLY BROKEN. THE BROKEN CONDITION PERTAINS TO MAINLY KAUAI COUNTY AND THE NORTH AND EAST FACING SIDES OF THE BIG ISLAND. THE CLOUDS OVER KAUAI COUNTY ARE DEPARTING THE AREA...AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN AREA OF CLOUDS AND SHOWERS THAT AFFECTED OAHU THIS MORNING. THE CLOUDS OVER THE WINDWARD SIDE OF THE BIG ISLAND ARE FROM THE TAIL END OF A NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED BAND OF CLOUDS. THE BAND SETTLED ONSHORE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON AND IS MAKING ITS WAY WESTWARD TOWARD MAUI AT 12 MPH. THE BAND EXTENDS NORTHWARD FOR 250 MILES FROM THE BIG ISLAND...AND HAS BECOME LESS ORGANIZED DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS. SOME OF THE FRACTURED ELEMENTS HAVE SURGED AHEAD OF THE BAND INTO THE HANA AREA OF MAUI WITH SOME CLOUDS AND LIGHT SHOWERS. WEATHER RADAR NOT ONLY CONFIRMS THIS BUT IS ONLY PICKING UP SPOTTY LIGHT SHOWERS ELSEWHERE WITH THIS BAND. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWER BEARING CLOUDS A FEW MILES FOLLOWING THIS BAND. ON THE OTHER HAND...THE CLOUD COVER OVER THE KONA SIDE OF THE BIG ISLAND IS MAINLY SCATTERED WHILE MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES PREVAILED ACROSS OAHU MOLOKAI LANAI AND WEST MAUI. DEEP CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISTURBED AREA COLLAPSED THIS AFTERNOON WHILE PASSING SOUTH OF THE BIG ISLAND. ONLY AN ISOLATED MODERATE THUNDERSTORM IS NOTED THIS PAST HOUR NEAR 09N158.8W OR 715 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH POINT BIG ISLAND. THE LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF MODERATE THUNDERSTORMS IS WITHIN 80 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 07N163W TO 11N169W TO 09N178W. $$ LAU +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.