User:Storm05/Mediterranean Sea Hurricane of 1995
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| Category 1 hurricane (SSHS) | ||
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 A possible January Mediterranean Hurricane off the coast of Greece |
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| Formed | January 14, 1995 | |
| Dissipated | January 18, 1995 | |
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| Lowest pressure | 988 mbar (hPa) | |
| Damage | unknown | |
| Fatalities | none | |
| Areas affected |
Libya | |
| Part of the 1995 Mediterranean Hurricane Season |
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The 1995 Mediterranean Sea Hurricane was a possible tropical cyclone that formed on January 14 and moved west-southwest before making landfall in northern Libya on January 17 and dissapating the next day.
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[edit] Storm History
The hurricane formed from a low pressure system embeaded in a cold front that extended from Libya to Albania in early January. On January 14 at 1200 UTC, the storm began to show signs of a well developed circulation and a German ship reported winds up to 85 mph and 988 millibars and tried to launch weather balloons in order to determine the structure of the storm, but high winds made it difficult. On January 15 the strengthening storm moved off the west coast of Greece as it separated from the cold front it formed out of and at 1550 UTC, satallite pictures revieled that the storm had a clearly open eye. The hurricane persited for another 30 hours before it began to weaken on January 16 and on the 17th, the dissapating remnants of the storm made landfall in northern Libya and was dissoved hours later.
[edit] Impact
Although the storm spent most of its duration over water it did produce a 48 hour rainfall of 513 millimeters and cause severe property damage on the island of Sicily. However there were no reports of deaths or injuries from the hurricanes brush with the island, nor there were any infomation of damage , deaths or rainfall when the storm made landfall in Libya.
[edit] Rare formation
The 1995 hurricane was a truly a meteorlogical oddity because it formed in the Mediterranean Sea, a place that rarely sees tropical activity because of wind shear and water tempreatures reaching only 50-60 degrees. Although there could have been other storms in the past since weather satellite monitoring began in 1960 but the evidence if the storms in the past were really tropical remains disputed.
