The 2000 season

Tropical Storm Miriam (2000)

Tropical Storm Miriam peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 15, 2000 and September 17, 2000, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Miriam. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 15, 2000 to September 17, 2000
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 32 km (20 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP152000

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 15, 18:0019.2N 107.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 00:0019.8N 107.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 06:0020.2N 107.6W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 12:0020.6N 107.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0021.0N 108.2W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0021.5N 108.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 06:0022.4N 108.9W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 12:0023.7N 109.2W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2000

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.