Historical Info on Tropical Storm Norma
Max Status Achieved: Tropical Storm
Duration: Sep 23-27, 2005
Max Wind Speed 55kts
Min Barometric pressure 998Mb
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Information on Tropical Storm Norma
03PM MDT 26/09/05 Norma has been downgraded to
a tropical depression as it encounters increasing shear and cooler waters.
Tropical Depression Norma is about 367 miles WSW of Cabo San Lucas. The storm's
current position is 20.6N 115.1W and
movement is 315° at 8kts. Wind speeds are 30kts with gusts to 40kts. Central
barometric pressure is estimated at 1006Mb.
TD Norma is forecast to continue to lose
strength as it moves over sub 26°C waters for the forecast period. A
strengthening ridge of high pressure is expected to turn the storm more W to
SW over the next 24 hrs.
Norma evolved out of tropical depression 14E at
3AM on 23/05 near 15.1N 109.3W. Tropical Depression 14E
developed into a named storm quickly, in just 5 hrs. The disturbed area of
weather that spawn it had been threatening to organize for several days.
Norma endured as a tropical storm for more than 72hrs, never achieving
hurricane status.
TD14E had been an area of disturbed weather,
excited by a tropical wave on 22/9 in the 11PM MDT release from the National
Hurricane Center.
It is not likely that this storm will present a
threat to the Baja peninsula.
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