HURRICANE SEASON OF 1998 IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC

«LISA»

October 5^th-9^th

It formed in the afternoon of the 5^th within a strong tropical wave some 1,275 km East of the Lesser Antilles. Lisa developed in a highly sheared environment produced by a neighboring upper low Northwest of the system.

In the beginning Lisa moved to the North-northwest and started its recurve in the morning of the 6^th, moving ahead of a troff of the mean troposphere and around the upper low over the Central Atlantic. In the early hours of the 6^th it headed Northeast and since the morning of the 8^th with a greater speed it turned more to the North and to the North-northwest in the evening. It reached the maximum intensity of 120 km/h and a minimum pressure of 987 hPa by the end of the morning of the 9^th, classifying as a hurricane of category 1. Afterwards, with a course almost North it lost its tropical characteristics over the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the afternoon of that day.

Hurricane Lisa. October  9, 1998 (08:45 UTC)

«MITCH»