Imogen

2020-21 season · AU202021_05U

Category 3

History

Tropical Cyclone Imogen formed during the 2020–21 Australian region cyclone season, a below-average season in terms of overall activity. The season ran officially from 1 November 2020 to 30 April 2021 and produced eight tropical cyclones, three of which reached severe tropical cyclone intensity. Imogen developed within this broader seasonal context, which was influenced by a La Niña pattern characterised by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures north of Australia.

The 2020–21 season was notable primarily for Tropical Cyclone Seroja, which caused catastrophic flooding and landslides across southern Indonesia and East Timor, making it the third-deadliest cyclone on record in the Australian region. Tropical cyclone activity was monitored throughout the season by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, the National Weather Service of Papua New Guinea, and the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, with additional oversight from the United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center and Météo-France.

Specific details regarding Tropical Cyclone Imogen's formation location, peak intensity, any landfall, and associated impacts are not described in the available source material, which focuses predominantly on the broader season and other individual systems within it.

Sources: Bureau of Meteorology report Wikipedia

View full track data (13 observations)
Date/Time (UTC)CategoryPositionPressureWind
2021-01-01 00:00:00 1 -13.8, 136.4 1004 hPa 8 km/h
2021-01-01 06:00:00 1 -14.1, 136.7 1003 hPa 8 km/h
2021-01-01 12:00:00 1 -14.7, 136.9 1002 hPa 10 km/h
2021-01-01 18:00:00 1 -14.9, 136.9 1000 hPa 10 km/h
2021-01-02 00:00:00 1 -15.0, 137.0 1000 hPa 10 km/h
2021-01-02 06:00:00 1 -15.2, 137.4 1000 hPa 13 km/h
2021-01-02 12:00:00 1 -15.4, 138.0 1000 hPa 13 km/h
2021-01-02 18:00:00 1 -16.0, 138.5 996 hPa 15 km/h
2021-01-03 00:00:00 1 -16.2, 139.1 994 hPa 15 km/h
2021-01-03 06:00:00 1 -16.5, 139.6 990 hPa 18 km/h
2021-01-03 12:00:00 3 -17.4, 140.8 985 hPa 26 km/h
2021-01-03 18:00:00 2 -17.6, 141.5 990 hPa 21 km/h
2021-01-04 00:00:00 2 -17.7, 142.0 998 hPa 15 km/h