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Data acquired April 14 - 14, 2003 900 x 1100 254 KB - JPEG
Data acquired April 14 - 14, 2003 1800 x 2200 900 KB - JPEG
Data acquired April 14 - 14, 2003 3600 x 4400 3 MB - JPEG
Data acquired April 14 - 14, 2003 7200 x 8800 8 MB - JPEG
Tropical Cyclone Kujira whirls over the northwestern Pacific Ocean toward the Phillipines in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired March 14, 2003. Kujira was packing 110 knot winds (1 knot = 1.15 mph) at the time this image was acquired with gusts up to 135 knots. Over the next two days, Kujira is expected to strengthen to 125 knot sustained winds (150 knot gusts), making it into a category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The storm was moving west-northwest so rapidly that it was almost out of the scene at the time this image was acquired.
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published April 14, 2003 Data acquired April 14 - 14, 2003