# Talk:Cyclone Agni

A track map is located here
Just click on 1. Western Noth Pacific and North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones, 1.3 Summary of Western North Pacific and North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones, TC 05A Agni, and a few lines down. Hurricanehink 22:49, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

There's very little notable information here. Jdorje 08:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

This cyclone really needs a page I feel: it had two world records and is linked to by many other pages.  If tropical Storm Lee (2005) gets a page, Agni needs one. Jamie|C 21:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I can see the use for an article on this on the "close to equator" basis. However, it wasn't the first NIO storm to be named, because 01A back in 83 had a name: Aurora. It was even recognized by JTWC. Despite no info as to why it was given that name, the fact remains that Aurora was the first named NIO storm, and not Agni. On a side note, is there anything linking C. Agni to its name origin, because I'm about 100% sure Agni was the name of a fire deity (the water deity, I think, was Rahab) Hurricane Angel Saki My own personal NHC 05:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I emailed Ken Knapp about the Global Best Track, in regards to why they use JTWC data primarily in the NIO and not IMD. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Dear Ken Knabb,
I emailed you previously about the best track, and I would like some clarification. Why does the best track for the northern
hemisphere use data from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center? Ideally, should it not use data from the Japan Meteorological Agency 
and the India Meteorological Department? The JTWC is not recognized by the WMO, but both the JMA and IMD are.

I am currently researching Cyclone Agni of 2004, which was reported by some to have formed closer to the equator than any other 
storm. Your best track lists the same positions as the Joint Typhoon Warning Center for the storm. Is any of the North Indian 
Ocean's data provided by the IMD, or is it all by the JTWC?

Here was the answer.

JTWC is used for numerous reasons:
- It is an independent estimate of TC intensity (thus adding an estimate
of storm strength) and are included for the same reason HKO and CMA are
included: they provided new information.
- It provides numerous storms which are not observed
- IMD information is not available prior to 1990.

I think you are describing storm 2004332N02072. The Serial track file:
ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/ibtracs/v01r01/SerialNumber-Name-Mapping.txt
states that New Delhi and JTWC provided information on this storm. The
ASCII file shows how many centers were used for each TC position:
ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/ibtracs/v01r01/ibtracs_ascii/2004332N02072.ibtracs.v01r01.ascii
For most observations, only one center was available. From this file:
ftp://eclipse.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/ibtracs/v01r01/merged/2004332N02072.merged.v01r01.nc
One can see that IMD provided very few reports for this storm
(removed long stream of data on the storm)

Thanks for your interest and I hope this helps.
-Ken

I downloaded the ascending and descending pass swaths form 24 through 30 NOV 2004 from the NESDIS STAR web page at: http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/datasets/QuikSCATData.php/   and stitched together the sector images that straddled the equator for each pass. Of particular interest might be the ascending pass from 27 NOV 2004, which clearly shows the COC just south of the equator. As I am not that well-versed in editing or embedding images into a wiki, would any of the article editors like a copy of the image (or images from 24-30 NOV) e-mailed to them. If so, please send an e-mail to me. My e-mail address can easily be found on the internet.  b/r   Tony Cristaldi, NWS Office, Melbourne, Florida, USA.  AJC3fromS2K (talk) 15:48, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Just to back up what Tony is saying the pre Agni low did move into the Southern Hemisphere and "become an anticyclone" before moving back up into the NIO per comments made by one of the forecasters of RSMC La Reunion on Page 8.Jason Rees (talk) 18:10, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Meteorological history - The text states that "the cyclone had a barometric pressure of 985 mbar" at its peak but the summary box lists the lowest pressure as 994 mbar.
Delete the duplicate continued after weakening.
The text states that Agni weakened to below tropical storm status on Dec. 3 but the summary box states that it dissipated Dec. 2.
Records, naming, and impact - delete , between Agni & moved.
69.72.92.26 (talk) 04:58, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

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