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Season 1978-1979 Tropical Cyclone GORDON Track Map
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Joint Typhoon Warning Centre Cyclone Data

Name: GORDON
Number: 994 / 7906

02 Jan 1979 00:00 UTC to 11 Jan 1979 12:00 UTC

    date/time    lat    long     hPa   cat  kts
1979-01-02 00    4.2   179.1                  35          
1979-01-02 06    4.8   178.1                  35          
1979-01-02 12    5.2   177.0                  35          
1979-01-02 18    5.1   175.5                  35          
1979-01-03 00    5.2   174.1                  35          
1979-01-03 06    6.0   173.2                  35          
1979-01-03 12    6.8   172.5                  35          
1979-01-03 18    7.5   171.8            1     40          
1979-01-04 00    8.2   171.2            1     40          
1979-01-04 06    9.1   170.6            1     40          
1979-01-04 12   10.0   170.0            1     40          
1979-01-04 18   10.6   169.3            1     45          
1979-01-05 00   11.0   168.5            1     45          
1979-01-05 06   11.2   167.9            1     50          
1979-01-05 12   11.5   167.3            1     50          
1979-01-05 18   12.1   166.8            2     55          
1979-01-06 00   12.8   166.5            2     60          
1979-01-06 06   13.5   166.3            2     65          
1979-01-06 12   14.2   166.2            2     65          
1979-01-06 18   15.3   166.1            2     70          
1979-01-07 00   16.5   166.0            3     75          
1979-01-07 06   17.6   166.2            3     75          
1979-01-07 12   18.5   166.2            3     75          
1979-01-07 18   19.1   165.2            2     70          
1979-01-08 00   19.2   164.0            2     65          
1979-01-08 06   19.1   163.2            2     60          
1979-01-08 12   19.0   162.3            2     55          
1979-01-08 18   19.1   161.4            1     50          
1979-01-09 00   19.2   160.5            1     45          
1979-01-09 06   19.2   158.8            1     45          
1979-01-09 12   19.2   156.8            1     40          
1979-01-09 18   19.2   155.4            1     40          
1979-01-10 00   19.2   154.5            1     40          
1979-01-10 06   19.2   154.0            1     40          
1979-01-10 12   19.3   153.5                  35          
1979-01-10 18   19.5   152.9                  35          
1979-01-11 00   19.8   152.3                  35          
1979-01-11 06   20.0   150.7                  30          
1979-01-11 12   20.2   148.1                  30          
Winds are 1-min average.

Tropical cyclone tracks developed by Michael Bath using data from the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre Best Tracks and Google Maps.


Document: tropical_cyclone_gordon.htm
Updated: 12 February 2021
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