Real-Time Guidance | TROPICAL STORM RAFAEL (AL18)

Real-time Guidance for TROPICAL STORM RAFAEL (AL18)

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Information as of the most recent model cycle ?

At 0000 UTC, 05 November 2024, TROPICAL STORM RAFAEL (AL18) was located in the North Atlantic basin at 15.8°N and 76.9°W. The current intensity was 40 kt and the center was moving at 6 kt at a bearing of 345 degrees. The minimum central pressure was 1000 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*.
34-kt FHLO-GEFS* ?
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50-kt FHLO-GEFS* ?
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64-kt FHLO-GEFS* ?
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83-kt FHLO-GEFS* ?
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96-kt FHLO-GEFS* ?
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*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 ?

aal182024.dat ?
track and intensity forecasts (a-deck)
bal182024.dat ?
history file (b-deck)
fal182024.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 RAFAEL

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 RAFAEL

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 RAFAEL

   NDBC Ship and Buoy Obs within 300 km

   Mesonet Observations from NWS WRH Hazard Viewer