Cyclone Rewa
Severe Tropical Cyclone Rewa affected six countries and caused 22 deaths on its 28-day journey across the South Pacific Ocean in December 1993 and January 1994. The cyclone developed from a tropical disturbance on 28 December south of Nauru. After forming, Rewa moved southwest through the Solomon Islands, crossing the 160th meridian east into the Australian region. It reached its initial peak intensity as a Category 4 tropical cyclone on 2 January.
About Cyclone Rewa in brief
Severe Tropical Cyclone Rewa affected six countries and caused 22 deaths on its 28-day journey across the South Pacific Ocean in December 1993 and January 1994. The cyclone developed from a tropical disturbance on 28 December south of Nauru. After forming, Rewa moved southwest through the Solomon Islands, crossing the 160th meridian east into the Australian region. Rewa reached its initial peak intensity as a Category 4 tropical cyclone on 2 January. It maintained this intensity for about 12 hours before an increase in wind shear induced its weakening by 3 January, before it passed over New Caledonia between 5–6 January. The system then turned and started to move towards the south parallel to the Queensland coast because of an interaction with an upper-level trough of low pressure. Although forecasters had predicted Rewa to make landfall near Mackay, Queensland, the cyclone began interacting with a trough on 18 January, causing it to divert to the southeast. The remnants of Rewa brought heavy rain to New Zealand three days later. After this usage of the name Rewa, the name was retired and Rewa was not used again until the 1990s, when it was used again by the Fiji Meteorological Service for a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for a storm in the Pacific Ocean. The storm caused the deaths of 22 people on its course, affecting parts of theSolomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Australia, NewCaledonia, Vanuatu and New Zealand.
In Queensland, three people died in traffic accidents caused by the storm, and another fatality occurred when a boy became trapped in a storm pipe, while flooding caused eight drownings in Papua New Guinean. On 30 December, the JTWC reported that Rewa had become equivalent to a category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale ; early the next day the BoM reported that the system had developed into a category 3 severe tropicalcyclone. During the day, the system peaked with 1-minute windspeeds of 230 km-h, equivalent to 230-km/h on a category 4 hurricane. Throughout the day the system started to take a more east-eastward track as it approached 160°E, which made it a category 5 severe cyclone on the Australian Scale. It then weakened to a tropical depression and turned northwestward before re-entering the Australian basin on 10 January. On 20 January the system transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, with its remnants bringing heavy rain to New Zealand three days later, and an eye became visible on satellite imagery. It recurved toward the southwest while gradually weakening for several days. On 31 December the system re-entered the South Pacific basin and moved towards the west-southwest under the influence of a north-easterly steering flow.
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