Overview Hurricane Jimena:
Hurricane Jimena developed on August 28 about 1700 miles east-southeast of Hawaii and developed quickly. On August 30, it reached it's peak strength as a hurricane with sustained winds slightly over 100 mph. Hurricane Jimena moved steadily westward around 17 mph on a course that would take the center about 50 miles south of the Big Island. On August 31, with Jimena about 300 miles east-southeast of the Big Island, the storm began to encounter stronger winds in the upper atmosphere that began to weaken and shear it apart. During the early morning hours of September 1, a rapidly weakening Jimena started moving in a southwest direction as it was now being pushed along by the low level tradewind flow from the northeast. Air Force Reserve aircraft reconnaissance could not find any winds above hurricane strength, and so Jimena was downgraded to a Tropical Storm. Hurricane Jimena made it's closest approach to the Big Island around sunrise, with it located about 110 miles south of South Point. By that afternoon, much of the convection was gone and Hurricane Jimena was now just a tropical depression as it continued to move southwest and away from the islands.
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