| Hurricane Anna (changes noted starting on page 1) Significant Revisions: 1. Genesis is indicated to have occurred 54 hours earlier, based upon satellite and ship observations; 2. Intensity significantly boosted on the 20th based upon ship and aircraft observations later in the day 3. Intensity significantly reduced on the 21st to the 23rd based upon aircraft reconnaissance; 4. Peak intensity reduced from Category 3 (100 kt on the 21st to the 23rd) to Category 2 (90 kt on the 22nd); 5. A few central pressures were added based upon aircraft reconnaissance observations; 6. Intensity significantly reduced on the 24th to show a more realistic weakening after landfall. Hurricane Betsy (changes noted starting on page 10) Substantial revisions: 1. Intensity significantly increased on the 2nd and 3rd based upon ship and aircraft observations; (65kts to 90kts) 2. Intensity significantly reduced on the 4th and 5th based upon aircraft observations; (100kts to 75kts on 4th) 3. A few central pressures were removed, as these values were not based on observations; 4. Transition to extratropical 24 hours earlier; 5. Large west-southwestward adjustment in the position on the 12th based upon ship and coastal observations; 6. Four days added to its lifetime as an extratropical cyclone. Hurricane Carla (changes noted starting on page 21) Significant Revisions: 1. Transition to a tropical storm is indicated to be 18 hours earlier; 2. Intensity significantly reduced on the 11th based upon aircraft observations; 3. Peak intensity on the 11th reduced from 150 kt to 125 kt; 4. Position adjusted significantly northeastward on the 13th based upon surface observations; 5. Significant eastward adjustment to the position was added at 00Z on the 15th based on station observations; 6. Numerous central pressures were added during the extratropical phase based upon station observations; 7. The lifetime of the system is extended two days as an extratropical cyclone. Hurricane Debbie (changes noted starting on page 34) Significant Revisions: 1. Genesis indicated 18 hours earlier based upon ship and coastal observations; 2. Intensity substantially decreased on the 11th to the 13th based upon aircraft observations; 3. Peak intensity on 11th and 12th reduced from 105 kt to 80 kt; 4. Extratropical transition introduced with ET stage on the 15th through the 18th; 5. Two additional days as an extratropical cyclone are added based upon ship and coastal observations. Hurricane Esther (changes noted starting on page 42) Significant Revisions: 1. Intensity substantially raised on the 11th based upon aircraft reconnaissance observations; 2. Intensity substantially reduced on the 12th through early on the 16th based upon aircraft reconnaissance observations; 3. Several central pressures were added or substantially adjusted based upon aircraft reconnaissance; 4. Several central pressures are removed, as they were likely analyses and not based upon observations; 5. Intensity substantially boosted from late on the 16th to early on the 18th based upon aircraft reconnaissance observations; Peak intensity now considered to be 140 kt on the 17th, was previously 125 kt on the 18th and 19th; 6. Intensity substantially reduced late on the 18th to the 21st based upon aircraft reconnaissance observations; 7. Intensity substantially increased on the 22nd based upon aircraft reconnaissance observations; 8. Intensity substantially reduced late on the 23rd based upon ship and coastal observations; 9. Intensity substantially increased on the 26th based upon ship and coastal observations. Unnamed Tropical Storm (changes noted starting on page 59) Significant Revisions: 1. Intensity boosted upward substantially on the 15th based upon ship and coastal observations; 2. Peak intensity raised from 35 kt to 55 kt as a tropical cyclone (60 kt intensity as an extratropical cyclone); 3. A few central pressures added based upon ship and coastal observations; 4. An extratropical cyclone phase added on the 15th before dissipation. Hurricane Frances (changes noted starting n pages 63) Significant Revisions: 1. A few central pressures removed, as they are likely analyses and not based upon observations; 2. Intensity substantially reduced on the 8th for a more realistic weakening trend; 3. Extratropical transition indicated to be 18 hours earlier. Tropical Storm Gerda (changes noted started on page 73) Significant Revisions: 1. Genesis is begun 24 hours later than HURDAT, as the system did not have a center until the 17th; 2. Several central pressures were added primarily from aircraft reconnaissance and station observations; 3. Intensification to a tropical storm at 06Z on the 18th is indicated to have occurred 30 hours earlier than HURDAT 4. Substantial intensity increase indicated on the 19th based upon aircraft reconnaissance; 5. Substantial south-southwestward adjustment of the track on the 19th based upon aircraft reconnaissance; 6. Substantial westward adjustment of the track on the 21st and 22nd based upon coastal and ship observvations; 7. Substantial increase in the intensity (while extratropical) on the 21st based upon coastal and ship observations. Hurricane Hattie (changes noted starting on page 80) Significant Revisions: 1. Genesis indicated to be 30 hours earlier based upon ship and coastal observations; 2. Several central pressures were added, primarily based upon aircraft reconnaissance; 3. Large downward revisions made to the intensity to some time periods on the 28th and 30th based primarily upon aircraft observations; 4. Large upward revision to the intensity made late on the 31st based upon ship observations; 5. Large downward revision made to the intensity on the 1st based primarily upon the Kaplan-DeMaria inland wind decay model; 6. Related change to the NE Pacific HURDAT: Removal of Tropical Storm Simone from HURDAT. Hurricane Jenny (changes noted starting on page 91) Significant Revisions: 1. Genesis delayed by 12 hours based upon ship and coastal observations; 2. Intensity significantly boosted on the 5th based on ship observations; 3. Transition to extratropical delayed by two days based upon ship observations; 4. Dissipation delayed by 36 hours based upon ship observations. Tropical Storm Inga (changes noted starting on page 98) Significant Revisions: 1. Genesis begun a day earlier based upon ship and coastal observations; 2. Intensity rasied significantly on the 5th based upon aircraft observations(45kts to 60kts); 3. A few central pressures were added based primarly upon aircraft obsevations. |