The 2001 season

Hurricane Dalila (2001)

Hurricane Dalila reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 21, 2001 and July 28, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 987 mb.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 21, 2001 to July 28, 2001
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
987 mb (29.15 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 208 km (129 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
125 nmi (232 km, 144 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP052001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 21, 00:0011.3N 93.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0011.9N 94.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0012.4N 96.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0013.0N 97.0W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0013.6N 98.2W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0014.2N 99.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0014.8N 100.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0015.5N 102.1W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0016.1N 103.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0016.7N 104.5W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0017.2N 105.6W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0017.5N 106.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0017.7N 107.3W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0018.0N 108.1W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0018.2N 109.0W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 18:0018.4N 109.8W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0018.6N 110.5W60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0018.8N 111.1W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0019.0N 111.6W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0019.1N 112.2W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0019.3N 112.8W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0019.5N 113.4W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0019.7N 114.0W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0019.9N 114.7W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0020.1N 115.5W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0020.4N 116.3W50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0020.7N 117.1W45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0021.1N 117.9W40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0021.5N 118.9W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0022.0N 119.9W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jul 28, 12:0022.4N 121.1W25 kt1007 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.