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Subtropical cyclones have wide wind <a href="/wiki/Pattern" title="Pattern">patterns</a> with the winds getting stronger as they get farther away from the centre of the storm. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Terms">Terms</h2></div> <p>A subtropical cyclone is more likely to be a tropical cyclone than an <a href="/wiki/Extratropical_cyclone" title="Extratropical cyclone">extratropical cyclone</a>. Subtropical cyclones are only found in the northern <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> and in the eastern <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a>. Like normal tropical cyclones, most subtropical cyclones have maximum wind <a href="/wiki/Speed" title="Speed">speeds</a> of at least 39 <a href="/wiki/Mph" class="mw-redirect" title="Mph">mph</a> to 74 mph (60 <a href="/wiki/Km/h" class="mw-redirect" title="Km/h">km/h</a> to 110 km/h). Subtropical cyclones that have wind speeds less than 39 mph are known as "subtropical depressions".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Naming_issue">Naming issue</h3></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/1950s" title="1950s">1950s</a> and <a href="/wiki/1960s" title="1960s">60s</a>, subtropical cyclones were simply called "semi-tropical". There was much discussion between <a href="/wiki/Meteorology" title="Meteorology">meteorologists</a> in the late <a href="/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960s</a> as of what a subtropical cyclone was. So, in <a href="/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a>, the <a href="/wiki/National_Hurricane_Center" title="National Hurricane Center">National Hurricane Center</a> (NHC) officially classified the word under a new category, different from actual <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclones" class="mw-redirect" title="Tropical cyclones">tropical cyclones</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/1970s" title="1970s">1970s</a>, the NHC began making a new list of names, separate for subtropical cyclones, although that process was soon canceled because it was rejected by many <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">scientists</a>. After that, subtropical storms were just numbered, such as Hurricane Karen from <a href="/wiki/2001" title="2001">2001</a> which was originally named <i>Subtropical Storm One</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But on <a href="/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Policy" class="mw-disambig" title="Policy">policy</a> change had tropical and subtropical storms share the same list of names for the whole season, which started with <a href="/wiki/Subtropical_Storm_Nicole_(2004)" title="Subtropical Storm Nicole (2004)">Subtropical Storm Nicole</a> in <a href="/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Naming">Naming</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:STS_Nicole_10_oct_2004_1530Z.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/STS_Nicole_10_oct_2004_1530Z.jpg/200px-STS_Nicole_10_oct_2004_1530Z.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/STS_Nicole_10_oct_2004_1530Z.jpg/300px-STS_Nicole_10_oct_2004_1530Z.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/STS_Nicole_10_oct_2004_1530Z.jpg/400px-STS_Nicole_10_oct_2004_1530Z.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Picture of <a href="/wiki/Subtropical_Storm_Nicole_(2004)" title="Subtropical Storm Nicole (2004)">Subtropical Storm Nicole</a> taken from a <a href="/wiki/Satellite" class="mw-disambig" title="Satellite">satellite</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2004_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="2004 Atlantic hurricane season">2004 Atlantic hurricane season</a>, the NHC <a href="/wiki/Monitor" class="mw-disambig" title="Monitor">monitored</a> the first named subtropical cyclone, its name was <a href="/wiki/Subtropical_Storm_Nicole_(2004)" title="Subtropical Storm Nicole (2004)">Subtropical Storm Nicole</a>. Later, another unnamed subtropical cyclone was discovered in the <a href="/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="2005 Atlantic hurricane season">2005 Atlantic hurricane season</a> after someone re-read the records. Although it could have been named, the subtropical storm remained without a name because the time of the discovery happened a long time after the official season had finished.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A third subtropical cyclone was named <a href="/wiki/Subtropical_Storm_Andrea_(2007)" title="Subtropical Storm Andrea (2007)">Subtropical Storm Andrea</a> which formed on <a href="/wiki/May_9" title="May 9">May 9</a> just before the start of the <a href="/wiki/2007_Atlantic_hurricane_season" title="2007 Atlantic hurricane season">2007 Atlantic hurricane season</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formation">Formation</h2></div> <p>A subtropical cyclone can form in many ways: </p> <ul><li>Change from an</li></ul> <p><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/extratropical"><span style="color: #CC2200;" title="extratropical (Page does not exist on Wiktionary)">extratropical</span></a></span> cyclone to a tropical cyclone (or the other way round) </p> <ul><li>An upper-level low meets a cold core and deep convection.</li> <li>From a big <a href="/wiki/Mesocyclone" title="Mesocyclone">mesocyclone</a> with a cold core.</li> <li>A tropical wave forming over sea surface temperatures of 23 degrees.</li> <li>From the</li></ul> <p><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/leftover"><span style="color: #CC2200;" title="leftover (Page does not exist on Wiktionary)">leftovers</span></a></span> of a tropical cyclone after <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/landfall"><span style="color: #CC2200;" title="landfall (Page does not exist on Wiktionary)">landfall</span></a></span> while losing its tropical characteristics. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types">Types</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Upper-level_low">Upper-level low</h3></div> <p>The most common type of a subtropical cycle is an upper-level cold low with circulation expanding to the surface <a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/layer" class="extiw" title="wikt:layer">layer</a> and strongest winds usually happening at a <a href="/wiki/Radius" title="Radius">radius</a> of about 100 miles/160 kilometers or more from the center. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mesoscale_low">Mesoscale low</h3></div> <p>Another type of a subtropical cyclone is a <a href="/wiki/Mesocyclone" title="Mesocyclone">mesoscale low</a> forming in or near an area of horizontal <a href="/wiki/Wind_shear" title="Wind shear">wind shear</a>, also known as a "dying frontal zone", with radius of strongest winds normally less than 30 miles (50 kilometers). The entire circulation may originally have a <a href="/wiki/Diameter" title="Diameter">diameter</a> of less than 100 miles/160 kilometres. These cyclones usually last for a short time. They may be either cold <a href="/wiki/Core" class="mw-disambig" title="Core">core</a> or warm core, and for some time in <a href="/wiki/1972" title="1972">1972</a> this type of subtropical cyclone was called as a "neutercane". As of <a href="/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a>, the warm core type was moved under the definition of the term, tropical cyclone; and removed from the subtropical cyclone definition.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_pages">Other pages</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">Tropical cyclone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extratropical_cyclone" title="Extratropical cyclone">Extratropical cyclone</a></li></ul> <table style="margin:0 auto;text-align:center;" align="center" class="toccolours"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#cceeff"><b><a href="/wiki/Cyclone" title="Cyclone">Cyclones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">Tropical cyclones</a> of the World</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size:90%;"><a href="/wiki/Cyclone" title="Cyclone">Cyclone</a> - <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">Tropical</a> - <a href="/wiki/Extratropical_cyclone" title="Extratropical cyclone">Extratropical</a> - <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Subtropical</a> - <a href="/wiki/Mesocyclone" title="Mesocyclone">Mesocyclone</a> - <a href="/wiki/Polar_cyclone" title="Polar cyclone">Polar cyclone</a> - <a href="/wiki/Polar_low" title="Polar low">Polar low</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <div class="references-small"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">National Hurricane Center. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgloss.shtml">Glossary of NHC terms.</a> Retrieved on <a href="/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a>, <a href="/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">National Hurricane Center. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2001/mar/al132001.fstadv.001.html">Subtropical Storm One Public Advisory from 2001.</a> Retrieved on <a href="/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a>, <a href="/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> Jack Beven and Eric S. Blake. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL212005_Unnamed.pdf">Unnamed Subtropical Storm.</a> Retrieved on <a href="/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a>, <a href="/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">NOAA. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ofcm.gov/homepage/text/spc_proj/ihc/action-items.pdf#search=%22subtropical%20cyclone%20definition%20change%20NHC%22">Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference</a> Retrieved <a href="/wiki/October_10" title="October 10">October 10</a>, <a href="/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a>.</span> </li> </ol> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_websites">Other websites</h2></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/A5.html">NOAA FAQ on tropical cyclones</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-04-22-subtropical-storms_x.htm">USA Today article on subtropical storms</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=12524">NASA Earth Observatory: Subtropical Storm Nicole</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thestormtrack.com/2007/05/an_early_start_to_the_season.php">TheStormTrack.com: An Early Start to the Season?</a></li></ul> <p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Link_GA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Link GA (not yet started)">Template:Link GA</a> </p></div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subtropical_cyclone&oldid=3033323">https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subtropical_cyclone&oldid=3033323</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Subtropical_cyclones" title="Category:Subtropical cyclones">Subtropical cyclones</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Complex_pages" title="Category:Complex pages">Complex pages</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:All_pages_that_need_simplifying" title="Category:All pages that need simplifying">All pages that need simplifying</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_broken_Wiktionary_links" title="Category:Articles with broken Wiktionary links">Articles with broken Wiktionary links</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Former_very_good_articles" title="Category:Former very good articles">Former very good articles</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last changed on 12 September 2011, at 01:00.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License">GFDL</a>; additional terms may apply. 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