The 1997 season

Tropical Storm Marty (1997)

Tropical Storm Marty peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 12, 1997 and September 16, 1997, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Marty, 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
September 12, 1997 to September 16, 1997
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 2110 km (1311 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Fastest the center moved
6 kt (7 mph)
Identifier
EP151997

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 12, 18:0014.3N 133.1W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 00:0014.2N 133.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 06:0014.1N 133.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 12:0014.0N 134.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 18:0013.9N 134.9W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0013.9N 135.5W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0013.6N 135.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0013.3N 135.8W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0012.9N 135.9W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0012.4N 136.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0012.0N 136.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0011.9N 136.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 15, 18:0011.8N 136.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 00:0011.8N 136.4W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 06:0011.7N 136.6W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 12:0011.6N 136.9W25 kt1006 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.