The 1999 season

Tropical Storm Arlene (1999)

Tropical Storm Arlene peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between June 11, 1999 and June 18, 1999, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Arlene, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1999 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
North Atlantic
Dates
June 11, 1999 to June 18, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 955 km (593 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.4
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
AL011999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 11, 18:0027.1N 58.1W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 12, 00:0027.7N 57.4W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 12, 06:0028.1N 57.3W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 12, 12:0028.3N 57.3W35 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0028.5N 57.4W45 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0028.8N 57.5W50 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0029.0N 57.8W50 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0029.1N 58.2W50 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0029.1N 58.7W50 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0029.1N 59.2W45 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0029.2N 59.8W40 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 12:0029.3N 60.4W40 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 18:0029.6N 60.7W40 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 00:0029.8N 61.1W40 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 06:0029.7N 61.5W40 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 12:0029.6N 61.3W45 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0029.9N 61.4W45 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 00:0030.0N 61.7W45 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0030.3N 62.0W45 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0030.8N 62.3W40 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 18:0031.3N 62.5W35 kt1012 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0031.8N 62.8W30 kt1014 mbTropical depression
Jun 17, 06:0032.5N 63.0W30 kt1015 mbTropical depression
Jun 17, 12:0033.4N 63.0W30 kt1015 mbTropical depression
Jun 17, 18:0034.4N 62.3W30 kt1015 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 00:0035.4N 61.6W25 kt1015 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1999

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.