From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Thu Sep 16 20:31:08 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 o8GCV7Bk028775 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:31:08 +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 o8G50Biq023157; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:30:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3422179 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:30:43 -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 o8GCUdVb022979 for ; Thu, 16 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 o8GCUXFx017311 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:30:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 31651405001E; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:30:33 -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-1009160039 X-Spam-OrigSender: ldm@weather3.admin.niu.edu X-Spam-Bar: Message-ID: <20100916123033.31651405001E@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:30:33 -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 759 ATHW40 PHFO 161230 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 1230 UTC THU SEP 16 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 1200 UTC SEPTEMBER 16 2010 TRADE WINDS WERE SWEEPING PATCHES AND CLUSTERS OF SCATTERED TO BROKEN LOW CLOUDS WESTWARD ACROSS THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS EARLY THIS THURSDAY MORNING. THESE LOW CLOUDS HAD INCREASED IN NUMBER SINCE EARLY LAST EVENING. THESE CLOUDS...MAINLY FROM 20N TO 24N LATITUDES BETWEEN 150W AND 170W LONGITUDES...WERE A MIX OF STRATOCUMULUS AND CUMULUS CLOUDS. EAST OF 150W...THE LOW CLOUDS INCREASED IN DENSITY. SOUTH OF 20N...BETWEEN 140W AND 165W...BROKEN CUMULUS CLOUDS WERE THE RULE. THESE LOW CLOUDS WERE MORE SHOWERY IN APPEARANCE. THE LOW CLOUDS NEAR THE ISLANDS WERE MOVING WEST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. AT 2 AM...MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES WERE BEING OBSERVED ALONG THE WINDWARD SECTIONS OF THE ENTIRE ISLAND CHAIN. BUT IT WAS NEARLY CLOUD-FREE ON THE LEEWARD SIDE OF THE BIG ISLAND. AND ONLY A FEW CLOUDS WERE NOTED NEAR LANAI AND THE LEE SIDE OF MAUI AND MOLOKAI. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW FAR WEST OF THE STATE NEAR 21N 179W WAS MOVING WEST NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING MAINLY WITHIN 250 MILES NORTHEAST AND SOUTH OF ITS CENTER. A STRAND OF CIRRUS STRETCHED FROM SOUTH TO NORTH ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF THE LOW. THIS STRAND OF HIGH CLOUDS WAS CENTERED BETWEEN 15N 171W AND 22N 170W. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING ALONG A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH SOUTH OF THE ISLANDS. THE STORMS WERE MAINLY LOCATED FROM 08N TO 12N BETWEEN 141W AND 151W. HIGHEST STORM TOPS WERE NEAR 50000 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.