The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Erick (2001)

Tropical Storm Erick peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 20, 2001 and July 24, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Erick, 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 20, 2001 to July 24, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1273 km (791 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
125 nmi (232 km, 144 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP042001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 20, 18:0013.9N 117.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0014.3N 118.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0014.9N 118.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0015.5N 119.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0016.2N 120.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0017.0N 121.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0017.7N 122.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0018.5N 123.3W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0019.2N 124.5W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0019.6N 125.6W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0020.0N 126.5W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0020.4N 127.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 23, 18:0020.8N 128.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 00:0021.1N 128.6W25 kt1008 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.