The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Lorena (2001)

Tropical Storm Lorena peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 2, 2001 and October 4, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Lorena, 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
October 2, 2001 to October 4, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 133 km (83 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Overall size
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP132001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 2, 00:0011.9N 102.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 06:0012.0N 103.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 12:0012.6N 104.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0013.2N 105.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0014.3N 106.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0015.0N 106.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0015.7N 106.5W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0016.2N 106.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0016.8N 106.7W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0017.6N 107.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0018.5N 107.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 18:0019.6N 106.7W25 kt1009 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.