The 1997 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1997)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 27, 1997 and November 1, 1997.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
October 27, 1997 to November 1, 1997
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 990 km (615 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.1
Fastest the center moved
22 kt (25 mph)
Identifier
CP041997

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 27, 18:009.0N 158.3W25 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 00:009.1N 157.5W25 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 06:009.4N 157.1W25 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 12:009.9N 157.5W25 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 18:0010.4N 158.4W25 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 00:0010.7N 159.4W30 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 06:0010.9N 160.3W30 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 12:0011.0N 161.3W35 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 18:0011.2N 162.2W25 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 00:0011.4N 163.1W25 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 06:0011.6N 164.1W25 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 12:0011.9N 165.5W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 30, 18:0011.8N 166.1W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 31, 00:0012.0N 166.8W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 31, 06:0012.3N 167.8W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 31, 12:0012.2N 169.1W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 31, 18:0011.3N 170.5W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 1, 00:0010.5N 172.2W25 ktTropical depression
Nov 1, 06:009.8N 174.1W20 ktTropical 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.

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