This is the Hurricane Warning
archive of hurricane Kate.
The best data available was used
to create this archive, in order to
make it as educational as possible.
Meteorological Analysis
Kate originated from a tropical wave which moved off the African coast on
September 21st, and passed the Cape Verde Islands by the 23rd. The
wave began to organize shortly after passing the Cape Verde Islands, and a
low level center with convection formed. The wave had organized sufficiently
enough to become a tropical depression on the 25th about 800 nm WSW of
the Cape Verde Islands. The depression moved NW towards a weakness in the
sub-tropical ridge, and experienced strong shear during this time. On the 27th,
shear relaxed a bit and the depression organized into tropical storm Kate. Kate
began to recurve to the NE ahead of a trough, and became a 75 mph hurricane.
Kate then weakened and became caught on the northern side of a
mid-tropospheric circulation on October 1st, causing Kate to head WSW. Kate
became a hurricane on the 1st again, and continued to strengthen as it was over
warm waters and under light shear. Kate reached its maximum intensity of
125 mph on the 4th while centered 565 nm ESE of Bermuda. Kate then began
to slow and weaken simultaneously, as the storm approached the edge of the
ridge and a trough. The trough caused Kate to recurve again, and Kate
continued to weaken from shear associated with the trough. Kate weakened
into a tropical storm on October 7th, over cooler waters at around 40 N. Kate
then transitioned into an extra-tropical system on the 8th. Kate was a strong
extra-tropical storm, and continued NE until merging with another system on the 10th.
Casualty and Damage Overview
There were no reports of casualties or damage in association with Kate.
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