The 1971 season

Tropical Storm Georgette (1971)

Tropical Storm Georgette peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 20, 1971 and July 27, 1971, with a lowest pressure of 991 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Georgette, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1971 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 20, 1971 to July 27, 1971
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 278 km (173 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.6
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
EP071971

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 20, 12:0015.7N 103.6W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 20, 18:0015.8N 104.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0015.8N 105.9W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0015.9N 107.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0015.9N 108.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0015.9N 109.4W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 00:0015.9N 110.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 06:0015.9N 111.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 12:0016.0N 111.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 18:0015.9N 112.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 23, 00:0015.9N 112.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 23, 06:0016.0N 113.7W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0016.2N 114.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0016.4N 115.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0016.6N 116.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0016.9N 116.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0017.4N 116.9W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0018.0N 117.3W50 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0018.7N 117.8W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0019.3N 118.6W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0019.7N 119.5W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0020.0N 120.7W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0020.3N 121.9W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0020.7N 123.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0021.1N 124.2W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0021.4N 125.6W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0021.7N 127.2W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0022.0N 128.9W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 27, 12:0022.3N 130.8W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1971

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.