The 1997 season

Tropical Storm Carlos (1997)

Tropical Storm Carlos peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 25, 1997 and June 28, 1997, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Carlos, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1997 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
June 25, 1997 to June 28, 1997
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 507 km (315 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP041997

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 25, 06:0015.6N 107.8W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 25, 12:0016.3N 108.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 25, 18:0017.0N 109.3W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 00:0017.6N 110.2W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 06:0018.2N 111.1W45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 12:0018.5N 112.1W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 18:0018.8N 113.1W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 00:0019.0N 114.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0019.2N 115.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jun 27, 12:0019.4N 116.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 27, 18:0019.5N 117.1W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 28, 00:0019.5N 118.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1997

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.