Real-Time Guidance | TROPICAL DEPRESSION INVEST 98 (AL98)

Real-time Guidance for TROPICAL DEPRESSION INVEST 98 (AL98)

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Information as of the most recent model cycle ?

At 0000 UTC, 23 September 2021, TROPICAL DEPRESSION INVEST 98 (AL98) was located in the North Atlantic basin at 10.2°N and 34.4°W. The current intensity was 30 kt and the center was moving at 12 kt at a bearing of 280 degrees. The minimum central pressure was 1008 mb.

Reconnaissance Aircraft Data ?

No Vortex Data Messages were found for this system.

Track guidance ?

Early cycle track guidance ?
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Late cycle track guidance ?
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Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS) guidance ?

Late EPS track guidance plotted by model ?
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Extra late EPS track guidance plotted by model ?
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Intensity guidance ?

Early cycle intensity guidance ?
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Late cycle experimental intensity guidance ?
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Probabilistic wind exceedance guidance ?

A plot of 34-kt wind exceedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-ECMWF*.
A plot of 50-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-ECMWF*.
A plot of 64-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-ECMWF*.
A plot of 83-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-ECMWF*.
A plot of 96-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-ECMWF*.
A plot of 34-kt wind exceedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-GEFS*.
A plot of 50-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-GEFS*.
A plot of 64-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-GEFS*.
A plot of 83-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-GEFS*.
A plot of 96-kt wind exeedance guidance has not yet been generated for FHLO-GEFS*.

*The data incorporated herein is generated from the use of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Forecasts of Hurricanes Using Large-ensemble Outputs (FHLO) version 1.50, © MIT, used with permission. All Rights Reserved.

ATCF data files ?

aal982021.dat ?
track and intensity forecasts (a-deck)
bal982021.dat ?
history file (b-deck)
fal982021.dat ?
fixes file (f-deck)

Links to Official Warning Information

RSMC Miami - U.S. National Hurricane Center

5-day Forecast with Uncertainty Cone
Surface Wind Field
Wind History
Probability of Tropical Storm-force Winds (34-kt)
Probability of Storm-force Winds (50-kt Winds)
Probability of Hurricane-force Winds (64-kt)
Earliest Resonable Time of Approach of 34-kt Winds (Experimental)
Most Likely Time of Approach of 34-kt Winds (Experimental)

Environmental Diagnostics ?

SHIPS diagnostic message ?
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Links to External Satellite-based Products

CIRA TC Real-time Page for INVEST 98

Enhanced Infrared Imagery Loop (4 km Mercator)
Storm Relative Visible Imagery Loop (1 km Geostationary)
AMSU Microwave 89GHz Imagery (4 km Mercator)
Multiplatform Satellite Surface Wind Analysis (Operational)
Multiplatform Satellite Surface Wind Analysis (Experimental)
Aircraft-based Surface Wind Analysis

UW-CIMSS TC Satellite Products for INVEST 98

Satellite Consensus Intensity Estimates   More info ?
Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) ?
ARCHER Center-finding Technique ?
ARCHER Eyewall Replacement Cycle Diagnostic and Prediction ?
Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC-TC) ?

Observations near INVEST 98

   NDBC Ship and Buoy Obs within 300 km

   Mesonet Observations from NWS WRH Hazard Viewer