The 2003 season

Tropical Storm Felicia (2003)

Tropical Storm Felicia peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 17, 2003 and July 24, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Felicia, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2003 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 17, 2003 to July 24, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 518 km (322 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
125 nmi (232 km, 144 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
EP062003

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 17, 18:0014.0N 105.3W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 00:0014.3N 107.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 06:0014.6N 108.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0014.9N 110.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0015.2N 111.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0015.3N 113.2W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0015.4N 114.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0015.5N 116.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0015.5N 117.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0015.4N 119.2W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0015.2N 120.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 12:0015.2N 121.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 18:0015.2N 122.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0015.4N 123.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0015.6N 124.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0015.8N 126.2W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0015.9N 127.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 00:0016.1N 129.1W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 06:0016.4N 130.3W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 12:0016.7N 131.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 18:0017.1N 132.8W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 23, 00:0017.5N 134.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 23, 06:0017.6N 136.1W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 23, 12:0017.6N 137.6W20 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 23, 18:0017.7N 139.0W20 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 24, 00:0017.8N 140.5W20 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 24, 06:0017.9N 142.4W20 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 24, 12:0018.0N 144.5W20 kt1010 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2003

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.