Cyclone Kim (2000)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

February 23, 2000 to March 3, 2000

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

935 mb (27.61 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 2411 km (1498 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

8.8

Identifier

SH132000

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

• Cyclone IrisSouth Pacific · 2000Cat 170 kt · 964 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm40 kt · 998 mb
• Cyclone JoSouth Pacific · 2000Cat 165 kt · 972 mb
• Cyclone SteveSouth Pacific · 2000Cat 165 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Storm LeoSouth Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm55 kt · 974 mb
• Cyclone MonaSouth Pacific · 2000Cat 180 kt · 960 mb
• Tropical Storm VaughanSouth Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm50 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Storm TessiSouth Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm50 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm NeilSouth Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm40 kt · 992 mb

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.

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.