Tropical Cyclone Report

Tropical Depression Six-E

This short-lived depression may have had its origin in a tropical wave that emerged from Africa on 3 August. The wave was fairly well organized over the eastern Atlantic, but it weakened and became difficult to identify as it approached the Caribbean Sea on the 8^th. Based on continuity and extrapolation, the system crossed Central America on the 12^th and 13^th. As the wave neared 135W on the 21^th, the associated cloud pattern became better organized, and it is estimated that Tropical Depression Six-E formed from this system about 1300 miles east of the Hawaiian Islands on the 22^nd. The tropical cyclone moved mostly north-northwestward, and did not strengthen significantly. As a result of south-southwesterly vertical shear, and cooler waters, the depression dissipated by early on the 24^th. There were no reports of casualties or damage associated with this system.