The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Chantal (2001)

Tropical Storm Chantal peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between August 14, 2001 and August 22, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Chantal, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2001 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 14, 2001 to August 22, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) from the center at its widest
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
34 kt (39 mph)
Identifier
AL042001

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Aug 21, 02:00San Pedro, Belize District, Belize, 27 km away18.1N 87.8W60 kt (69 mph)999 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 14, 18:0012.8N 37.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 00:0012.9N 39.3W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 06:0012.6N 41.6W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 12:0012.3N 43.9W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 18:0012.3N 46.3W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 00:0012.4N 48.8W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 06:0012.4N 51.3W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 12:0012.7N 53.9W30 kt1012 mbTropical wave
Aug 16, 18:0012.7N 57.2W30 kt1012 mbTropical wave
Aug 17, 00:0013.1N 60.6W35 kt1011 mbTropical wave
Aug 17, 06:0013.3N 62.8W35 kt1011 mbTropical wave
Aug 17, 12:0013.7N 64.6W35 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0014.2N 66.4W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0014.4N 68.2W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0014.6N 70.4W55 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0014.8N 72.9W50 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0015.3N 75.2W50 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0015.3N 77.2W55 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0015.4N 78.4W60 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0015.7N 79.6W60 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0016.2N 81.1W55 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0016.7N 82.6W50 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0017.1N 84.1W50 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0017.5N 85.6W50 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0017.9N 86.7W55 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0018.1N 87.7W60 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 02:00 landfall18.1N 87.8W60 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0018.2N 88.1W55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0018.4N 88.7W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0018.6N 89.5W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0018.7N 90.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 06:0018.4N 91.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 12:0017.9N 92.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic 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.