The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Cosme (2001)

Tropical Storm Cosme peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 13, 2001 and July 15, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cosme, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 13, 2001 to July 15, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 606 km (377 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
EP032001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 13, 06:0015.0N 108.4W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 13, 12:0015.8N 110.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0016.3N 111.4W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0016.8N 112.4W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0017.2N 113.3W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0017.7N 114.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0018.2N 115.1W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 00:0018.8N 115.9W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 06:0019.2N 116.6W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.