Tropical Cyclone Clare

  • Credit

    NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.

Tropical Cyclone Clare formed on January 8, 2006, in the eastern Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia, and then came ashore on the Western Australia coast near Broome.

Tropical Cyclone Clare is a moderately strong storm system in the Indian Ocean off the Australian coast. When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite observed the cyclone at 06:05 UTC (2:05 p.m. local time) on January 9, 2006, it was a well-developed system with peak sustained winds of around 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour). The cyclone (the local term for a hurricane or typhoon) was about 200 kilometers offshore from Port Hedland in Western Australia, the nearest major city.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Aqua/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2006-01-09

  • Event Start Date

    2006-01-08

  • NH Image ID

    13306

  • NH Event ID

    10848

  • NH Posting Date

    2006-01-09