User:Jason Rees/Veena

Meteorological history
The system that was to become Severe Tropical Cyclone Veena was first noted by the Tahiti Meteorological Service on April 6, as an area of low pressure located to the east of the Marquesas Islands. Over the next couple of days, the system moved southwestwards and was classified as a tropical cyclone and named Veena by the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS) during April 8, after they had been informed of its existence in a bulletin from the Honolulu Meteorological Office. At this time, the system was located about 110 km to the southeast of Fatu-Hiva in French Polynesia's Marquesas Islands

On April 11, the FMS reported that Veena had peaked with 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 100 kn, which made it a category 4 severe tropical cyclones on the modern day Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale. At this stage, the system was located about 110 km to the northwest of Rangiroa in the Palliser Islands.

The system was last noted during April 14, as it moved out of the FMS area of responsibility and merged with the westerly trade winds well to the south of the Gambier Islands.

Reanalysis efforts
During 2014, Meteo France published the results of a reanalysis, they had undertaken into Severe Tropical Cyclone Veena. Within the reanalysis, they found that the system was the most intense to impact French Polynesia and had peaked with 10-minute sustained windspeeds of 114 kn as well as a minimum pressure of 910 hPa. This would make it a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone on the Australian scale and an Intense Tropical Cyclone on the scale that Meteo France uses. Karl Hoarau, Ludovic Chalonge, Florence Pirard and Daniel Peyrusaubes also reanalysed Veena, within a study into Extreme tropical cyclone activities in the southern Pacific Ocean that was published in the Royal Meteorological Society's International Journal of Climatology. They found that the systems intensity had been underestimated and estimated that it had peaked with 1-minute sustained winds of 130 kn, which would make it a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale.