List of sting jet cyclones explained

This is a list of documented and unconfirmed Sting jet occurrences.

List of sting jet cyclones

width=200 CycloneTypeDateReferenceLocation
Great storm of 1987European windstormOctober 15–17, 1987[1] [2] [3] Southern England
OratiaEuropean windstormOctober 30, 2000[4] North Sea (Lincolnshire to Norway)
AnnaEuropean windstormFebruary 26, 2002[5] Central Pennines, England
JeanetteEuropean windstormOctober 27, 2002[6] [7] Wales and the English Midlands
Erwin (Gudrun)European windstormJanuary 2005[8] [9] [10] Northern England
UnnamedExtratropical cycloneDecember 7 - 8, 2005[11] East of Canada
FriedhelmEuropean windstormDecember 8, 2011[12] [13] [14] Central Belt, Scotland
UlliEuropean windstormJanuary 3 - 4, 2012[15] [16] [17] [18] [19] Central Belt, Scotland
St Jude storm
(a.k.a. Cyclone Christian)		European windstormOctober 28, 2013[20] [21] Possibly developing over East Anglia then over the North Sea, skirting the Netherlands coast to Germany and Denmark.
Cyclone Tini/Storm DarwinEuropean windstormFebruary 12, 2014[22] Southern Ireland, Irish Sea, Wales.
EgonEuropean windstormJanuary 12–13, 2017[23] [24] Northern France, South-West Germany
Hurricane Humberto (2019)HurricaneSeptember 19, 2019[25] Bermuda
Storm EuniceEuropean WindstormFebruary 14-18, 2022[26] Isle of Wight, Southern England|}

List of unconfirmed sting jets

width=200 CycloneTypeDateReferenceLocation
New Year's Day StormEuropean windstormJanuary 1, 1992[27] [28] Norway
RenateEuropean windstormOctober 3, 2006Bay of Biscay and Aquitaine, France
"Oeste storm"European windstormDecember 23, 2009[29] Portugal
October 2010 North American storm complexGreat Lakes cycloneOctober 26 - 27, 2010[30] Midwest, USA
2011 Halloween nor'easterNor'easterOctober 30 - 31, 2011[31] Northeastern US
UnnamedExtratropical cycloneMarch 12, 2012[32] Upper Midwest, USA
UnnamedBlack Sea cycloneDecember 2–3, 2012[33] Romania and the Black Sea
GongEuropean windstormJanuary 19, 2013Portugal
ArthurExtratropical cyclone (ex - Hurricane)July 5, 2014[34] [35] Canadian Maritimes
Elon (Nathan)European windstormJanuary 9, 2015[36] [37] [38] Scotland
Zeus European windstormMarch 6, 2017[39] Brittany, France
UnnamedLow-pressure areaMay 4, 2018[40] Southern Ontario, Canada

Notes and References

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  12. Web site: Weather: A storm called Friedhelm. Meteogroup. 4 February 2012.
  13. Web site: Northern UK, Scotland Battered by Windstorm Friedhelm: AIR Analysis. AIR worldwide. 4 February 2012.
  14. Web site: Cyclone Friedhelm: a potential sting jet case. NCAS blog, Leeds University. 29 February 2012.
  15. Web site: Winter storm blasts the UK. BBC. 4 February 2012. flash.
  16. Web site: "Sting Jet" signature associated with a high wind event in Scotland. Space Science and Engineering Center CIMSS Satellite Blog. 5 February 2012.
  17. Web site: Grumm. Richard H.. Scottish Windstorm 3 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20220218165307/http://nws.met.psu.edu/severe/2012/03Jan2012.pdf. dead. February 18, 2022. National Weather Service-Pennsylvania State University Weather Events. National Weather Service-Pennsylvania State University. 5 February 2012.
  18. Web site: Sting jet signature associated with a high wind event in Scotland (storm Ulli, 3 January 2012). Eumetsat. 18 March 2012. 2 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223441/http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/WEBOPS/iotm/iotm/20120103_sting/20120103_sting.html. dead.
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  20. Web site: Orkan Christian. 28 October 2013.
  21. News: Hammond. John. How 'Sting Jets' influence our weather. 15 November 2013. BBC Weather. 30 October 2013.
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  24. KeraunosObs . 819617777354948608 . 12 January 2017 . L'image vapeur d'eau pourrait suggérer le développement d'un sting jet (courant-jet d'occlusion), d'où ces violentes rafales #tempête #Egon . French.
  25. Stacy R. Stewart. Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Humberto. National Hurricane Center. February 19, 2020. February 25, 2020.
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  32. Web site: Possible Sting Jet in Upper Midwest. Space Science and Engineering Centre CIMSS Satellite Blog. 17 October 2012.
  33. Brâncuş . Mihaela . Schultz . David M. . Antonescu . Bogdan . Dearden . Christopher . Ştefan . Sabina . Origin of Strong Winds in an Explosive Mediterranean Extratropical Cyclone . Monthly Weather Review . October 2019 . 147 . 10 . 3649–3671 . 10.1175/MWR-D-19-0009.1. free .
  34. News: Tropical Cyclone Information Statement for Post-Tropical Cyclone Arthur . 8 August 2014 . Canadian Hurricane Centre . Environment Canada . 6 June 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714200349/http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/bulletins/20140706193249.Arthur.info.txt.en . 14 July 2014 .
  35. News: Hurricane Arthur transitions to an extratropical cyclone. 8 August 2014. University of Wisconsin-Madison/ Space Science and Engineering Center CIMSS Satellite Blog. 6 July 2014.
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  37. Web site: Storm Forecast. 9 January 2015. European Storm Forecast Experiment.
  38. News: Thema Des tages 16 Jan 2015: Wenn der Skorpion zusticht. 14 October 2015. DWD. 16 January 2015.
  39. News: Violente tempête de la Bretagne au centre-est avec des orages le 6 mars - KERAUNOS, Observatoire français des tornades et orages violents. 7 March 2017. www.keraunos.org. www.keraunos.org. 6 March 2017. fr.
  40. Web site: Powerful winds blast Ontario and Quebec, 3 dead. 6 May 2018. The Weather Network. 8 December 2020.

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