The 1995 season

Tropical Storm Gil (1995)

Tropical Storm Gil peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 20, 1995 and August 27, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Gil, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1995 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
August 20, 1995 to August 27, 1995
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 104 km (65 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.2
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
EP081995

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 20, 18:0015.5N 99.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 00:0015.7N 100.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0015.8N 101.5W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0015.9N 102.7W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0016.1N 104.5W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0016.2N 106.1W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0016.2N 107.4W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0016.0N 108.4W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0015.8N 109.2W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0015.9N 110.0W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0016.2N 110.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0016.9N 111.2W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0017.7N 111.9W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0018.5N 112.8W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0019.2N 113.7W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0019.7N 114.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0020.1N 115.7W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0020.5N 116.9W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0020.8N 117.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0021.2N 118.1W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0021.5N 118.8W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0021.9N 119.4W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0022.0N 119.6W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0022.0N 119.8W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0022.0N 120.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 00:0022.0N 120.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 06:0022.1N 120.4W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 12:0022.7N 120.4W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1995

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.