Hurricane Vince

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On 5 October, an operationally unnamed subtropical storm which had gone unnoticed by the NHC was absorbed by a temperate frontal low, which was moving to the southeast over the Azores. The low pressure system gained a more concentrated circulation and lost its frontal structure after absorbing the subtropical storm. The developing system became a subtropical storm itself early on 8 October, {{convert|930|km}} southeast of Lajes in the Azores.{{cite web|author=James L. Franklin|title=Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Vince|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=22 February 2006|access-date=14 August 2011|format=PDF|url={{NHC TCR url|id=AL242005_Vince}}}} However, the NHC decided not to name the system Vince at the time, because the water temperature was too low for normal development for a tropical cyclone. The storm gradually gained the tropical characteristics of symmetry and a warm inner core and became a tropical storm the next day. Its transformation to a tropical system occurred over water cooler than {{cvt|24|°C}}, much colder than the {{cvt|26.5|°C}} usually required for tropical development.

Soon after it became a tropical storm on 9 October near Madeira, with a ragged eye already present,{{cite web|author=Staff |publisher=Malaga Weather Channel |date=13 October 2005 |access-date=14 August 2011 |title=13 Oct 2005 ...'Hurricane Vince' visits southern Spain |url=http://www.malaga-weather.com/article.75.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714023539/http://www.malaga-weather.com/article.75.html |archive-date=14 July 2011 }} the NHC officially named it Tropical Storm Vince and began to issue advisories.{{cite web|author=Richard Knabb|title=Tropical Storm Vince Discussion Number 1|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=9 October 2005|access-date=14 August 2011|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/dis/al232005.discus.001.shtml}} At the time there was some uncertainty as to whether Vince was tropical or subtropical but, in his post-season analysis, forecaster James L. Franklin of the NHC conceded that Vince had formed as a subtropical storm and had evolved into a tropical storm before it was named. The storm's ragged eye quickly solidified and contracted into a "bona fide" eye with a diameter of {{cvt|25|km}}.{{cite web|author=Richard Knabb|publisher=National Hurricane Center|access-date=14 August 2011|date=9 October 2005|title=Hurricane Vince Discussion Number 2|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/dis/al232005.discus.002.shtml?}} This increase in organization was accompanied by strengthening, and Vince reached its peak strength as a hurricane with {{cvt|120|km/h}} winds later that day. The NHC forecasters decided that "if it looks like a hurricane, it probably is, despite its environment and unusual location".

File:Vince 2005-10-11 1048Z.jpg on 11 October]]

Hurricane Vince's impressive organization was very short lived as westerly wind shear began to erode the eye within hours.{{cite web|author=Richard Pasch|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=9 October 2005|access-date=14 August 2011|title=Hurricane Vince Discussion Number 3|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/dis/al232005.discus.003.shtml?}} In response, the storm weakened to a tropical storm shortly thereafter.{{cite web|author=Franklin|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=14 August 2011|access-date=30 July 2008|title=Hurricane Vince Discussion Number 4|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/dis/al232005.discus.004.shtml?}} A broad low-level trough approached the storm from the northwest, pulling the convection northward as the storm's low-level center accelerated eastward.{{cite web|author=Richard Knabb|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=10 October 2005|access-date=14 August 2011|title=Hurricane Vince Discussion Number 5|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/dis/al232005.discus.005.shtml?}} On 10 October, two brief bursts of convection surprised forecasters, but with the sea surface temperature as low as {{cvt|22|°C}}, the flares were not sustained.{{cite web|author=Richard Knabb|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=10 October 2005|access-date=14 August 2011|title=Hurricane Vince Discussion Number 6|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/dis/al232005.discus.006.shtml?}}{{cite web|author=Stacy Stewart|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=10 October 2005|access-date=14 August 2011|title=Hurricane Vince Discussion Number 7|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/dis/al232005.discus.007.shtml?}} Vince continued to weaken as it approached the Iberian Peninsula and became a tropical depression on 11 October, shortly before it made landfall near Huelva, Spain. The fast-moving tropical depression quickly dissipated over land. Its remnants moved across southern Spain, dumping rain on the drought-ridden region, and moved into the Mediterranean Sea south of Alicante in the early hours of 12 October.

Image:Embalsebembezar.jpg was one of many that benefited from Hurricane Vince's unseasonable rainfall.]]

The Spanish Center for Emergency Coordination declared a rain pre-emergency for the province of Castellón in the anticipation that Hurricane Vince would bring rains capable of flooding. The Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (INM) issued a bulletin that warned of a 40% chance of flooding. Four Spanish autonomous communities (Asturias, Catalonia, Castile and León, and Galicia) issued flood warnings, and Canarias issued a wind warning.{{cite web|author=Staff Writer |publisher=El Confidencial |date=12 October 2005 |access-date=28 July 2008 |title=Protección Civil alerta a cinco comunidades por la lluvia y el viento |language=es |url=http://www.elconfidencial.com/noticias/noticia.asp?id=6804&edicion=12/10/2005&pass= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121131400/http://www.elconfidencial.com/noticias/noticia.asp?id=6804&edicion=12%2F10%2F2005&pass= |archive-date=21 November 2007 |url-status=dead }} Spanish fishing fleets off the Andalusian coast returned to port and weathered the storm on their moorings rather than in the open ocean.

Spain's population, which had been battling fires after a record breaking summer drought, welcomed the rains brought by Vince's remnants.{{cite web|author=César-Javier Palacios|publisher=20 minutos|date=14 October 2005|access-date=28 July 2008|title=Fuentes sin agua|language=es|url=http://www.20minutos.es/columna/56238/0/cesar-javier/palacios/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522123929/http://www.20minutos.es/columna/56238/0/cesar-javier/palacios/|archive-date=22 May 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} In two days the storm brought more rain to the province of A Coruña than had fallen all summer, easing the sinking water levels in provincial reservoirs,{{cite web|author=Javier Mesa|publisher=20 minutos|date=13 October 2005|access-date=28 July 2008|title=Las lluvias sólo frenan un 0,1% la pérdida de agua|language=es|url=http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/55764/}} but also causing traffic jams and minor floods. In Córdoba province, the A-303, A-306 and CO-293 roads were partially flooded but "passable with caution". Municipal roadworks on La Ronda de Poniente, a major traffic artery connecting the city to nearby motorways, were flooded and partially destroyed.{{cite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=Diario Cordoba|date=13 October 2005|access-date=28 July 2008|title=Problemas en varias carreteras de la provincia|language=es|url=http://www.diariocordoba.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=210378|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916100506/http://www.diariocordoba.com/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=210378|archive-date=16 September 2008}} The entrance of the University of A Coruña was temporarily blocked by flood waters on 11 October, and a nearby roundabout was submerged.{{cite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=20 minutos|date=13 October 2005|access-date=28 July 2008|title=Llueve en sólo dos días más que en todo el verano|language=es|url=http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/55923/0/Llueve/verano/Vince/}} These damages were minor, and no fatalities were reported. The highest winds reported on land were {{cvt|77|km/h}} at Jerez, Spain, although some ships recorded stronger.{{cite web|publisher=Ministerio de Medio Ambiente|access-date=28 August 2008|title=Consideraciones sobre el ciclón Vince: sus efectos sobre la península Ibérica|language=es|url=http://www.aemet.es/documentos/es/divulgacion/estudios/estudio_vince.pdf}} Vince was comparable to normal rain events from temperate systems, with only {{cvt|25|to|50|mm|0}} of rain falling. Through a play on words of a song in the musical My Fair Lady, National Hurricane Center forecaster James Franklin in the Tropical Cyclone Report for Vince wrote, "the rain in Spain was mainly less than {{convert|2|in|mm|round=5|disp=sqbr}}, although {{convert|3.30|in|mm|round=5|disp=sqbr}} fell in the plain at Córdoba."

Image:Vince 2005-10-09 1200Z.jpg. For comparison, the main island of the Madeiras (the largest island pictured) is approximately {{convert|55|km|mi|round=5|abbr=in|disp=or}} long.]]

Subtropical Storm Vince formed in an unusual location in the far-eastern Atlantic,{{cite web|author=Knabb|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=9 October 2005|access-date=11 October 2008|title=Tropical Storm Vince Advisory Number 1|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/pub/al232005.public.001.shtml?}} and developed into a hurricane farther east than any other known storm at the time, at 18.9° W. This record was broken by Hurricane Pablo in 2019, at 18.3° W.{{cite web|author=Stewart|publisher=National Hurricane Center|date=27 October 2019|access-date=27 October 2019|title=Hurricane Pablo Advisory Number 8|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2019/al18/al182019.public.008.shtml?}} The National Hurricane Center declared that Vince was the first tropical cyclone on record to have made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula. Historical documents, however, suggest that a possibly stronger tropical storm or hurricane struck the Iberian Peninsula on 29 October 1842.

When Vince formed on 8 October it marked the first time in recorded history that a 21st tropical or subtropical storm had ever developed within a single Atlantic hurricane season. The previous record of 20 storms was set by the 1933 season.{{cite journal| last1=Landsea| first1=Christopher W.| last2=Hagen| first2=Andrew| last3=Bredemeyer| first3=William| last4=Carrasco| first4=Cristina| last5=Glenn| first5=David A.| last6=Santiago| first6=Adrian| last7=Stratham-Sakoskie| first7=Donna| last8=Dickinson| first8=Michael| title=A Reanalysis of the 1931–43 Atlantic Hurricane Database| date=15 August 2014| url=https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/landsea-et-al-jclimate-2014.pdf| journal=Journal of Climate| volume=27| issue=16| pages=6093–6118| publisher=American Meteorological Society| doi=10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00503.1| bibcode=2014JCli...27.6093L| s2cid=1785238| access-date=1 November 2020}} Hurricane Vince was also the first named "V" storm in the Atlantic since naming began in 1950. It would be 15 years until another season would have a V-named storm{{snd}}Tropical Storm Vicky in 2020 and also Tropical Storm Victor in 2021.{{cite web|last=Alvarez-Wertz|first=Jane|title=Tropical Storm Vicky becomes 20th named storm of the 2020 season, 5 named storms currently in Atlantic|date=14 September 2020|url=https://www.wavy.com/weather/hurricane/tropical-storm-vicky-is-the-20th-named-storm-of-the-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season/|website=wavy.com|publisher=WAVY-TV|location=Portsmouth, Virginia|access-date=14 September 2020}} Tropical Storm Wilfred bested Vince as the earliest 21st named storm in a season, forming 20 days earlier.{{cite news|author=Fox 13 News|title=Tropical Storm Wilfred forms in Atlantic, using final name on NHC's 2020 list|date=18 September 2020|url=https://www.fox13news.com/weather/tropical-storm-wilfred-forms-in-atlantic-using-final-name-on-nhcs-2020-list|publisher=WTVT|location=Tampa, Florida|access-date=18 September 2020}}

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• The [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2005/refresh/VINCE+shtml/024021.shtml? NHC's archive on Hurricane Vince]
• The {{NHC TCR url|id=AL242005_Vince|title=NHC's Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Vince}} (PDF)
• {{in lang|es}} [https://archive.today/20130128153004/http://foro.meteored.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=50af4d8efc62490617a65bd10da84b3b&topic=30896.0 Especial -> Huracán Vince: seguimiento, fotos, datos, opiniones sobre origen]

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