National Weather Digest lropical LOWEST MEASURED MINIMUM PRESSURES OCCURRING IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC HURRICANES, BY REGION, PERIOD 1900-1981

• Main Author: Stephen M. Blumel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.667.630; http://nwas.org/digest/papers/1984/Vol09No3/1984v009no03-Blumel-a.pdf

The occurence of the record-breaking Hurricane Allen in August of 1980 prompted a review of minimum measured pressures occuring throughout the entire North Atlantic Basin, 1900- 1981. Values for 19 regions are given. 1. DISCUSSION This br ief paper is an adapt ion from the author's extensive monograph of North American Hurricane Data, for 1900-1981. (2) This work continues. The associated regions of interest are out-lined in Figure 1. Table 1 presents a sum-mary of the lowest measured pressures observed for each Region of the N. Atlantic, occurring exclusively in hur-ricanes. In some cases, these may have been observed some distance from the actual center of the hurricane eye, and may not represent the absolute minimum that may have occurred; however, the data presented are considered to be the most repre-sentative available, and are considerably better than that available for most other parts of the world. For tropical cyclone track data, the reader is referred to the excellent atlas