The 2000 season

Tropical Storm Vaughan (2000)

Tropical Storm Vaughan peaked at 50 kt in the South Pacific between March 29, 2000 and April 7, 2000, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Vaughan, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2000 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
South Pacific
Dates
March 29, 2000 to April 7, 2000
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 63 km (39 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Identifier
SH232000

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 29, 00:0020.0S 168.0ENot reported
Mar 29, 06:0019.7S 168.0ENot reported
Mar 29, 12:0019.6S 167.9ENot reported
Mar 29, 18:0019.8S 167.8ENot reported
Mar 30, 00:0020.4S 167.6ENot reported
Mar 30, 06:0021.1S 167.3ENot reported
Mar 30, 12:0020.7S 167.3ENot reported
Mar 30, 18:0020.5S 167.4ENot reported
Mar 31, 00:0020.5S 167.7E25 ktTropical depression
Mar 31, 06:0020.1S 167.2E25 ktTropical depression
Mar 31, 12:0019.9S 167.1E25 ktTropical depression
Mar 31, 18:0019.7S 167.2E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 1, 00:0018.3S 166.5E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 1, 06:0017.9S 166.0E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 1, 12:0017.6S 165.2E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 1, 18:0017.3S 164.1E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 2, 00:0017.2S 162.8E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 2, 06:0016.7S 161.9E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 2, 12:0016.3S 160.8E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 2, 18:0015.3S 160.3E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 3, 00:0014.5S 159.4E35 ktTropical storm
Apr 3, 06:0014.4S 158.3E35 ktTropical storm
Apr 3, 12:0014.2S 157.1E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Apr 3, 18:0013.8S 156.1E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 4, 00:0013.6S 155.0E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 4, 06:0013.4S 153.6E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 4, 12:0013.2S 152.6E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 4, 18:0013.3S 151.9E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 00:0014.0S 151.4E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 06:0014.5S 150.4E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 12:0014.7S 149.7E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 18:0014.9S 148.8E35 kt975 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 00:0015.3S 147.4E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 06:0015.5S 146.6E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 12:0016.1S 146.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 6, 18:0016.5S 145.9E25 ktTropical depression
Apr 7, 00:0016.7S 145.4E15 kt1008 mbTropical depression

Other South 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.