The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Abigail (2001)

Tropical Storm Abigail peaked at 60 kt in the South Pacific between February 23, 2001 and March 8, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Abigail. 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
South Pacific
Dates
February 23, 2001 to March 8, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Fastest the center moved
22 kt (25 mph)
Identifier
SH122001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 23, 00:0015.5S 155.2E25 kt998 mbTropical depression
Feb 23, 06:0016.2S 153.1E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Feb 23, 12:0016.6S 151.0E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Feb 23, 18:0016.6S 149.1E30 kt992 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 00:0016.6S 147.4E30 kt992 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 06:0016.5S 145.8E30 kt994 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 12:0016.3S 144.4E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 18:0016.0S 143.2E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Feb 25, 00:0016.2S 142.3E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Feb 25, 06:0016.9S 141.2E30 kt994 mbTropical depression
Feb 25, 12:0016.3S 140.4E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0016.2S 140.0E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0016.2S 139.6E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0016.5S 139.2E55 kt975 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0016.7S 138.5E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0016.9S 137.8E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0017.0S 136.9E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0017.1S 136.1E45 kt986 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0017.4S 135.3E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0017.4S 134.5E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0017.4S 133.6E30 kt990 mbTropical depression
Feb 28, 06:0017.4S 132.8E25 kt988 mbTropical depression
Feb 28, 12:0017.4S 132.1E25 kt988 mbTropical depression
Feb 28, 18:0017.4S 131.2E25 kt988 mbTropical depression
Mar 1, 00:0017.5S 130.3E25 kt990 mbTropical depression
Mar 1, 06:0017.6S 129.3E25 kt988 mbTropical depression
Mar 1, 12:0017.8S 128.5E25 kt988 mbTropical depression
Mar 1, 18:0018.0S 127.8E25 kt988 mbTropical depression
Mar 2, 00:0018.4S 127.3E25 kt990 mbTropical depression
Mar 2, 06:0018.9S 126.8E25 kt990 mbTropical depression
Mar 2, 12:0019.5S 126.1E25 kt992 mbTropical depression
Mar 2, 18:0019.7S 125.5E25 kt992 mbTropical depression
Mar 3, 00:0019.8S 124.9E25 kt992 mbTropical depression
Mar 3, 06:0019.8S 124.5E25 kt990 mbTropical depression
Mar 3, 12:0019.9S 124.3E25 kt993 mbTropical depression
Mar 3, 18:0020.0S 124.2E25 kt993 mbTropical depression
Mar 4, 00:0020.1S 124.2E25 kt994 mbTropical depression
Mar 4, 06:0021.0S 124.4E25 kt992 mbTropical storm
Mar 4, 12:0021.5S 124.3E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Mar 4, 18:0022.0S 124.2E20 kt993 mbTropical storm
Mar 5, 00:0022.4S 124.2E20 kt993 mbTropical storm
Mar 5, 06:0022.6S 124.3E20 kt992 mbTropical storm
Mar 5, 12:0023.0S 125.0E20 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 5, 18:0023.7S 125.9E20 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 6, 00:0024.3S 126.5E20 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 6, 06:0024.7S 126.7E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Mar 6, 12:0025.0S 126.5E20 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 6, 18:0025.2S 126.2E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 00:0025.5S 126.0E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 06:0025.6S 125.7E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 12:0025.7S 125.5E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 7, 18:0026.0S 125.0E15 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Mar 8, 00:0026.5S 124.5E15 kt1004 mbTropical storm

Other South Pacific storms of 2001

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.