Category 4 severe tropical cyclone (Aus scale) | |
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Category 4 tropical cyclone (SSHWS) | |
Formed | March 26, 1993 |
Dissipated | April 6, 1993 |
Highest winds |
10-minute sustained: 165 km/h (105 mph) 1-minute sustained: 230 km/h (145 mph) Gusts: 195 km/h (120 mph) |
Lowest pressure | 940 hPa ( mbar); 27.76 inHg |
Fatalities | 5 direct |
Damage | $60 million (1993 USD) |
Areas affected | Vanuatu |
Part of the 1992-93 South Pacific cyclone season |
Severe Tropical Cyclone Prema ( JTWC Designation 23P, more commonly known as Cyclone Prema) was among the worst tropical cyclones to hit Vanuatu since 1988's Cyclone Uma. [1] The twenty-third storm of the season, Prema formed early on March 26, 1993 as a weak tropical depression. [2]
On March 25, the Fiji Meteorological Service's Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Nadi, Fiji (TCWC Nadi) reported that a tropical depression had developed within a monsoon trough to the west of the Fijian dependency of Rotuma. [3] [4] During that day the depression moved towards the northwest, before it turned and started to move towards the southwest during March 26 as it gradually developed further. During March 27, both TCWC Nadi and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported that the depression had developed into a tropical cyclone with Nadi naming it as Prema. [5]
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Category 4 severe tropical cyclone (Aus scale) | |
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Category 4 tropical cyclone (SSHWS) | |
Formed | March 26, 1993 |
Dissipated | April 6, 1993 |
Highest winds |
10-minute sustained: 165 km/h (105 mph) 1-minute sustained: 230 km/h (145 mph) Gusts: 195 km/h (120 mph) |
Lowest pressure | 940 hPa ( mbar); 27.76 inHg |
Fatalities | 5 direct |
Damage | $60 million (1993 USD) |
Areas affected | Vanuatu |
Part of the 1992-93 South Pacific cyclone season |
Severe Tropical Cyclone Prema ( JTWC Designation 23P, more commonly known as Cyclone Prema) was among the worst tropical cyclones to hit Vanuatu since 1988's Cyclone Uma. [1] The twenty-third storm of the season, Prema formed early on March 26, 1993 as a weak tropical depression. [2]
On March 25, the Fiji Meteorological Service's Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Nadi, Fiji (TCWC Nadi) reported that a tropical depression had developed within a monsoon trough to the west of the Fijian dependency of Rotuma. [3] [4] During that day the depression moved towards the northwest, before it turned and started to move towards the southwest during March 26 as it gradually developed further. During March 27, both TCWC Nadi and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported that the depression had developed into a tropical cyclone with Nadi naming it as Prema. [5]
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