The 2002 season

Tropical Storm Cristina (2002)

Tropical Storm Cristina peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 9, 2002 and July 16, 2002, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 9, 2002 to July 16, 2002
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 566 km (352 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP042002

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 9, 12:0011.5N 100.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 18:0012.0N 101.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 00:0012.4N 103.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 06:0012.8N 104.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 12:0013.0N 106.0W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 18:0013.3N 107.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 00:0014.0N 108.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 06:0014.2N 109.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 12:0014.3N 110.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 18:0014.3N 111.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 12, 00:0014.2N 112.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 12, 06:0014.2N 113.6W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0014.2N 114.6W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0014.1N 115.2W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0014.1N 115.7W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0014.3N 116.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0014.6N 116.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0015.0N 117.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0015.7N 117.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0016.2N 117.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0016.6N 117.8W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0017.1N 117.9W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0017.5N 118.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0017.9N 118.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0018.5N 119.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 18:0019.1N 119.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 00:0019.4N 120.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 06:0019.7N 121.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 12:0019.8N 121.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 18:0020.0N 122.7W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2002

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.