abstract
| - Tropical Cyclone Elisa (RSMC Nadi Designation:07F JTWC Designation:11P) was the seventh tropical disturbance, the sixth tropical depression, and the second tropical cyclone to form west of 160°E within the 2007-08 South Pacific cyclone season. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported that Elisa was also the third tropical cyclone within the South Pacific Ocean as well as the eleventh cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere during the 2007-08 season. Late on January 6, RSMC Nadi designated an area of low pressure near the International dateline as a tropical disturbance. The next day they upgraded it to a tropical depression and designated it as Tropical Depression 07F. Over the next few days the depression moved westwards but did not intensify any further. On January 10 the JTWC upgraded the depression to a cyclone and assigned the number 11P to the storm. Soon afterwards, RSMC Nadi named the cyclone as Elisa. Later that day, Elisa attained its peak wind speeds of 50 knots (60 mph, 95 km/h), which made it a category two cyclone on the Australian Cyclone Intensity Scale, as well as a tropical storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. The next day Elisa rapidly weakened in to a tropical low, with both the RSMC Nadi and the JTWC issuing their final advisories on Elisa as it dissipated. As Cyclone Elisa did not affect any land it caused no damage or casualties, and as a consequence was not retired by the WMO.
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