The 1999 season

Tropical Storm Emily (1999)

Tropical Storm Emily peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 24, 1999 and August 28, 1999, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Emily, 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
August 24, 1999 to August 28, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 628 km (390 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.4
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
AL061999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 24, 06:0011.5N 53.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 12:0011.5N 53.8W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0011.6N 53.9W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0012.1N 53.9W45 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0012.6N 54.2W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0012.8N 54.8W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0013.2N 55.2W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0013.8N 55.7W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0014.3N 56.2W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0015.0N 56.6W40 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0015.8N 57.0W35 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0017.0N 57.1W35 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0018.0N 57.0W35 kt1011 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0019.0N 57.0W35 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0020.0N 57.0W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0021.1N 56.6W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0022.4N 56.7W35 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0023.8N 56.7W30 kt1009 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.