The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Manuel (2001)

Tropical Storm Manuel peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 10, 2001 and October 18, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Manuel. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
October 10, 2001 to October 18, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 254 km (158 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP152001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 10, 12:0014.1N 99.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 18:0014.0N 100.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 00:0014.4N 102.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 06:0014.7N 103.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0015.2N 104.7W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0015.7N 105.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0015.9N 107.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0015.7N 108.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0015.4N 109.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 18:0014.9N 110.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 13, 00:0014.8N 111.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 13, 06:0014.6N 111.9W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 13, 12:0014.3N 112.6W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 13, 18:0014.1N 113.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 00:0013.9N 113.3W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 06:0013.9N 113.6W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 12:0014.0N 113.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 18:0014.3N 113.9W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 00:0014.7N 114.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 06:0015.3N 114.4W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0015.9N 114.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0016.5N 115.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0017.1N 115.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0017.5N 116.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0018.0N 118.1W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0018.6N 119.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0019.2N 120.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0019.8N 120.8W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0020.5N 121.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0021.1N 121.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 18, 00:0021.8N 121.8W25 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.