Tropical Storm Josephine

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Hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean:

Tropical Storm Josephine


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Table of contents:

Introductionpage: 3

Tropical storm Josephine:

Arise of Josephinepage: 4

Wind historypage: 5

Rainfall page: 8Appendix page: 9Sources page: 10

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Introduction:

In this summary I am going to tell you something more about the sort life of tropical storm

Josephine. Josephine was one of the 4 storm systems that were active at the same time. The

storm systems were: Gustav, Hanna, Ike and last but not least Josephine. Josephine was the

smallest and shortest living of these 4 storm systems. Josephine hadnt made landfall butdisappeared because of Hurricane Ike.

The first beginnings of tropical storm Josephine.

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Arise of Josephine:

Josephine arose from a strong tropical wave from Africa. Together with this and a low-

pressure area Josephine could develop. And she did. She arose in the neighbourhood of the

Cape Verde islands. So this means, Tropical storm Josephine was a Cape Verde storm system.

But this doesnt make sense because Cape Verde storm systems are almost every time thestrongest hurricanes of a season. But Josephine was pulled out, because of hurricane Ike, he

was so strong the Jospehine was attracted by hurricane Ike, so the whole storm system fell

apart.

Tropical Storm Josephine in the neighbourhood of Cape Verde.

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Wind history:

This table shows the wind history of tropical storm Josephine during her living period. The

colours in the Category section represent the colours in the picture below.

Date/Time Latitude

(North)

Longitude

(west)

Pressure

(mbar)

Wind speed

(knots)

Category:

02 / 0000 12.3 21.9 1007 30 Tropical

Depression

02 / 0600 12.7 23.2 1005 35 Tropical

Storm

02 / 1200 13.0 24.2 1005 35 Tropical

Storm

02 / 1800 13.3 25.3 1000 45 Tropical

Storm

03 / 0000 13.5 26.3 997 50 TropicalStorm

03 / 0600 13.6 27.2 994 55 Tropical

Storm

03 / 1200 13.7 28.2 994 55 Tropical

Storm

03 / 1800 13.8 29.2 994 55 Tropical

Storm

04 / 0000 13.9 30.0 997 50 Tropical

Storm

04 / 0600 14.1 30.9 997 50 TropicalStorm

04 / 1200 14.4 31.9 1000 45 Tropical

Storm

04 / 1800 14.6 32.7 1002 40 Tropical

Storm

05 / 0000 15.0 33.4 1002 40 Tropical

Storm

05 / 0600 15.4 34.0 1002 40 Tropical

Storm

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Date/Time Latitude

(North)

Longitude

(west)

Pressure

(mbar)

Wind speed

(knots)

Category:

05 / 1200 15.6 34.5 1003 40 Tropical

Storm

05 / 1800 15.8 34.9 1004 35 TropicalStorm

06 / 0000 16.2 35.5 1006 30 Tropical

Depression

06 / 0600 16.5 36.4 1006 30 Remnant low

The green field marks show the time when Tropical Storm Josephine was at her highest

intensive peak. Her highest wind speed was 55 knots, that is an amount of over 100

kilometres.

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This picture shows the wind direction and the wind speed of Tropical Storm Josephine. This

picture is made after she affected the area of Cape Verde.

As you can see there is a convection (a circling of wind around one spot). The highest

measuring of the wind speed is around the middle, and as you can see in the picture the other

wind is turning around this spot.

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Rainfall:

There are no reports of rainfall, because tropical storm Josephine never made it to land. The

islands in the area where Jospehine formed, there was a little bit of rainfall, but not enough to

report. But apart from that there were no reports of damage or heavy rainfall that was caused

by Josephine. Some pictures of the rainfall that Josephine produced were taken above the sea.This pictures shows the rainfall per hour in mm. In the middle of the storm you can see the

red spots, these represent the rain wall that Josephine developed. But after she weakened, the

wall fell apart.

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Appendix:

Josephine wasnt a large tropical storm, but that was caused by the other storm system that

were active at the same time. Josephine was predicted to be a hurricane, but because of the

strength that Ike had, she fell apart. Ike was the largest hurricane ever measured in the

Atlantic Ocean. Josephine couldnt develop better to become even larger or heavier.

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Sources:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=20474

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/270934main_josephine_4storms_HI.jpg

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ms-word/TCR-AL102008_Josephine.doc

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Josephine_2008_track.pnghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TS_Josephine_9-2-08.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/271885main_josephinequik_20080905_HI.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/271338main_josephineTRMM_20080904_HI.jpg

http://blog.nola.com/hurricane_impact/2008/07/large_td_2.jpg

http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/atl_overview.gif

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