Its relatively low ceiling height has caused some debate about its classification and it formed similarly to a related phenomenon off Australia's East Coast.
This phenomenon was originally called "01T-ALPHA" and "50L-NONAME" and was also known by some experts as "Aldonça" for a time before being given its more commonly known name. Its relatively low ceiling height has caused some debate about its classification and it formed similarly to a related phenomenon off Australia's East Coast. It made an unusual loop before it doubled-back for its final approach to land where it caused more than $25 million in damage largely because the Epagri/Ciram agency had never seen such a phenomenon before. Featured in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" even though it formed over cooler-than-average waters, it made landfall near the town of Torres in Rio Grande do Sul on March 28th 2004. For 30 points, identify this only cyclone in the South Atlantic to make landfall, named for the Brazilian province it struck.
This phenomenon was originally called "01T-ALPHA" and "50L-NONAME" and was also known by some experts as "Aldonça" for a time before being given its more commonly known name.
Cyclone {Catarina} [prompt on crap like "The Nameless Storm" since it was later renamed Catarina; accept {Hurricane Catarina}, grudgingly]