page_title: Cyclone Tino
section_title: Meteorological history
hierarchical_section_title: Cyclone Tino / Meteorological history
caption_attribution_description: English: Track map of Severe Tropical Cyclone Tino of the 2019-20 South Pacific cyclone season. The points show the location of the storm at 6-hour intervals. The colour represents the storm's maximum sustained wind speeds as classified in the Saffir–Simpson scale (see below), and the shape of the data points represent the nature of the storm, according to the legend below. Saffir–Simpson scale Tropical depression≤38 mph≤62 km/h Category 3111–129 mph178–208 km/h Tropical storm39–73 mph63–118 km/h Category 4130–156 mph209–251 km/h Category 174–95 mph119–153 km/h Category 5≥157 mph≥252 km/h Category 296–110 mph154–177 km/h Unknown Storm type Tropical cyclone Subtropical cyclone Extratropical cyclone / Remnant low / Tropical disturbance / Monsoon depression
context_page_description: Severe Tropical Cyclone Tino was a tropical cyclone which itself and an associated convergence zone caused significant damage across 10 island nations in the South Pacific Ocean during January 2020. First noted as a tropical disturbance during January 11, to the southwest of Honiara in the Solomon Islands, the system gradually developed over the next few days as it moved eastwards in between the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu prior to being named Tino as it approached Fiji during January 16. Continuing to track south-eastward, Tino continued strengthening as it passed near Fiji, bringing copious amounts of rainfall to the area. Whilst losing latitude, the system continued to strengthen and peaked as a category 3 tropical cyclone on January 17, with signs of an eye forming. Shortly after peak intensity, Tino was impacted by high wind shear and decreasing sea surface temperatures, triggering a weakening trend. Tino moved out of the tropics shortly thereafter and became an extratropical cyclone during January 19.
  In its formative stages, Tino produced heavy rainfall over the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
context_section_description: During January 11, the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS) reported that Tropical Disturbance 04F had developed, about 410 km (255 mi) to the southwest of Honiara in the Solomon Islands. At this time the system was poorly organised with deep atmospheric convection displaced, to the south of the system's broad low level circulation center. The disturbance was also located to the north of a subtropical ridge of high pressure, within a favourable environment for further development, with a low to moderate amount of vertical wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures of 29–31 °C (84–88 °F). Over the next couple of days, the system slowly consolidated and gradually developed further, as it was steered eastwards by the ridge through Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. The system was subsequently classified as a tropical depression during January 15, while it was located about 570 km (355 mi) to the northeast of Port Vila in Vanuatu. After the system had been classified as a tropical depression, the system continued to develop, with deep convection wrapping on to the systems low-level circulation center. As a result of this and decreasing vertical wind shear, the United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued a tropical cyclone formation alert on the system. During January 16, the system started moving south-eastwards towards Fiji and passed within 40 km (25 mi) of the Fijian dependency of Rotuma.
  As the system passed near Rotuma, the FMS reported that the depression had developed into a Category 1 tropical cyclone, on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale and named it Tino. Later that day the JTWC initiated advisories on the newly named tropical cyclone and designated it as Tropical Cyclone 08P, after its outflow improved with a point source positioning itself over the systems center. During January 17, Tino passed to the east of Udu Point on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu, before it developed an eye as it moved south-eastwards to the east of Fiji's Lau Islands. Later that day the FMS reported that Tino had become a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone and had peaked with 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 120 km/h (75 mph). At around the same time, the JTWC reported that the system had peaked with 1-minute sustained windspeeds of 130 km/h (80 mph), which made Tino equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale. During January 18, as the system passed near or over several of Tonga's Ha'apai islands, Tino started to gradually weaken with dry air wrapping into the systems low level circulation center from the south. The system also started to interact with a baroclinic zone and transition into an extratropical cyclone. Tino moved out of the tropics later that day, which prompted the FMS to pass the primary warning responsibility for Tino to New Zealand's MetService. The JTWC then issued their final advisory on the system during January 19, before it was last noted during the next day, as MetService declared that Tino had become an extratropical low.
caption: Map plotting the track and the intensity of the storm, according to the Saffir–Simpson scale
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