Cyclone1's hypothetical hurricane season

Cyclone 1's Hypothetical hurricane season was an ongoing event in the annual formation of tropical cyclones. (more info to come).

Hurricane Amber
A small subtropical low fomed north of Puerto Rico on May 13. The next day, it had gained enough organization to be called Sub-Tropical Depression One. It remained a sub-tropical depression as it completed a small cyclonic loop. Forecats either predicted the storm to dissipate without reaching tropical storm status, or predicted it to strengthen to tropical storm breifly and become extratropical shortly afterwards. The storm strengthened into a tropical storm and it was given the name Amber.

Amber defied predictions as it strengthened to a category one hurricane. A few advisories later, satellite data showed the storm had strengthened to a 125mph hurricane. Amber only had a minimum pressure of 979, which is unrealistically high for such a strong storm. Increasingly cooler waters and wind sheer finally weakened Amber, and it sped off northeastward. Amber did not effect land.

Amber's minimum pressure (though it was unusually high for a category three hurricane) was the lowest ever recorded in the Atlantic in the month of May. The hurricane's winds of 125mph were the strongest winds ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane in the month of may also, nearly reching category four status. The name Amber was not retired.

Tropical Storm Brendan
A vigorus tropical wave crossed the Yucatan and became a well organized tropical depression on May 28. It quickly became Tropical Storm Brendan. It moved closer to land, predicted to beome a hurricane before landfall. It reached windspeeds of 70mph and a minimum pressure of 984mbar before making landfall near Veracruz, Mexico.

The storm fell apart after it hit land, but continued to drop heavy amounts of rain over central Mexico. Brendan dissipated just before re-entering the East Pacific ocean on May 31, causing 15 deaths as a tropical cyclone. However, 40 people died in the Yucatan as a result of flash flooding from the precursor wave. Overall damage was below $10 million.

Hurricane Corrine
A tropical depression foromed southwest of Bermuda on June 3. It quickly became a tropical storm and began to threaten Canada. The storm shifted paths and began to head more eastward. The minimum central pressure was very low for a tropical cyclone of this strength, and it reached its peak of 978mbar on June 5. It was still a tropical storm at the time. It became a hurricane in the next advisory, although presure had risen to 979mbar. It quickly became extratropical, and lost its distinguishable circulation south of Greenland on June 7th.

Rainfall was very light in Newfoundland, less than 25mm (1 in) of rain fell over the Avalon Peninsula. Breif showers were also reported in Bermuda.

Tropical Depression Four
A weak low was detected over the Bahamas on June 9th. It remained nearly void of convection, barely visible on IR imagery, until a sudden blow-up of convection near the center caused the storm to be upgraded to Tropical Depression Four. Most of TD-4's convection remained south of its circulation as it made landfall south of St. Augustine, with only a few large thunderstorms over land. Its highest winds never exceded 30mph, and it only had a minimum pressure of 1009mbar. It dissipated over southern Georgia on June 11th.

Overall damage was light, but a surprising amount of tornadoes occured in the supercell-like storms that formed over Florida. 41 tornadoes and 3 waterspouts were confirmed with scattered reports of over 20 more unconfirmed tornadoes. Nearly 100 reports came in of funnel cloud sightings as well. They were all weak and mostly short-lived, the strongest being only an E-F1. Minimal damage was reported, and no deaths.