From owner-wx-tropl@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU Wed Oct 20 13:34:56 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 o9K5YtuE026650 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:34:55 +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 o9JJ8YgH022864; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:34:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: by LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3962528 for WX-TROPL@LISTSERV.ILLINOIS.EDU; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:34:40 -0500 Received: from relay09.cites.uiuc.edu (relay09.cites.uiuc.edu [128.174.4.86]) by vacuum.cso.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9K5Ye9U000113 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:34:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from weather3.admin.niu.edu (weather3.admin.niu.edu [131.156.8.48]) by relay09.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9K5YXZJ013883 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:34:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by weather3.admin.niu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id ADE23405025D; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:34:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Reason: safe Message-ID: <20101020053433.ADE23405025D@weather3.admin.niu.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:34:33 -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 044 ATHW40 PHFO 200534 SIMHI HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SATELLITE INTERPRETATION MESSAGE NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI 0530 UTC WED OCT 20 2010 BASED ON DATA THROUGH 0500 UTC OCTOBER 20 2010 EXCEPT FOR SCATTERED CLOUDS OVER HIGHER TERRAIN...KAUAI OAHU MOLOKAI SAT UNDER CLEAR SKIES. ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS WERE ALSO CLEAR WITH SCATTERED CLOUDS HERE AND THERE. THE FEW CLOUDS AROUND HAD TOPS NEAR 3000 FEET...AND WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT AROUND 10 MPH. OVERCAST CLOUDS BLANKETED THE WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS...WITH BROKEN CLOUDS DRIFTING OVER LEEWARD SECTIONS NEAR LAHAINA. THE NORTHEAST FACING SLOPES OF MOUNT HALEAKALA WERE ALSO COVERED WITH OVERCAST CLOUDS THAT EXTENDED OFFSHORE TO THE NORTH SOME 25 MILES. CLOUD TOPS WERE UP TO 13000 FEET. EXCEPT FOR A SMALL AREA OF BROKEN CLOUDS OVER ULUPALAKUA...THE REST OF MAUI WAS MOSTLY CLEAR. EXCEPT FOR SCATTERED CLOUDS OVER THE LEEWARD SLOPES OF THE KOHALA MOUNTAINS...THE BIG ISLAND WAS COVERED BY OVERCAST CLOUDS. BROKEN TO OVERCAST CLOUDS EXTENDED ABOUT 100 MILES NORTHEAST AND 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE ISLAND. NUMEROUS SHOWERS WERE FALLING OUT OF THE CLOUDS OVER THE OCEAN...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE FALLING ON LOWER ELEVATIONS OF THE ISLAND ITSELF. AN EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORM...CB...WAS LOCATED ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF HILO. CLOUD TOPS VARIED FROM 13000 FEET FOR THE LOW CLOUDS TO 38000 FEET FOR THE CB. THE CLOUDS OVER AND NEAR MAUI AND THE BIG ISLAND WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. FURTHER AFIELD...SCATTERED TOWERING CUMULUS...TCU...AND CB WERE LOCATED SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM 17N180W TO 15N160W TO 16N150W THEN UP TO 23N148W. THE BIGGEST CB WERE LOCATED FROM 10N TO 11N BETWEEN 140W AND 148W. CB TOPS HERE WERE NEAR 51000 FEET. TO THE NORTH...AN ERRATIC 60 MILE WIDE LINE OF BROKEN CUMULUS... CU...AND ISOLATED TCU RAN FROM 26N152W TO 25N163W TO 29N170W. THE LINE... WHICH WAS THE REMAINS OF AN OLD COLD FRONT...WAS DRIFTING TO THE SOUTH. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...WHICH LOOKS AT FEATURES MAINLY ABOVE 24000 FT...SHOWED A TROUGH ALOFT FROM 25N145W TO OVER THE BIG ISLAND TO 18N160W AND 18N180W. THE TROUGH WAS PROBABLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE BIG ISLAND. ANOTHER TROUGH ALOFT CENTERED FROM 30N149W TO 24N155W WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. $$ CRAIG +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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.