The 2003 season

Tropical Storm Kevin (2003)

Tropical Storm Kevin peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 3, 2003 and September 10, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Kevin, 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
September 3, 2003 to September 10, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 424 km (263 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP112003

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 3, 12:0019.0N 111.5W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 18:0019.3N 112.0W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 00:0019.5N 112.5W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 06:0019.8N 113.0W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 12:0020.4N 113.8W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 18:0021.2N 114.6W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0021.9N 115.4W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 06:0022.3N 116.0W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 12:0023.0N 117.0W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 18:0023.1N 117.9W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 00:0023.6N 118.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 06:0023.8N 119.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 6, 12:0023.9N 119.5W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 6, 18:0024.3N 119.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 7, 00:0024.6N 120.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 7, 06:0024.9N 120.1W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 7, 12:0025.3N 120.3W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 7, 18:0025.7N 120.0W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 8, 00:0026.0N 119.5W20 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 8, 06:0025.8N 118.9W20 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 8, 12:0025.4N 118.4W20 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 8, 18:0024.8N 118.2W20 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 9, 00:0024.3N 118.0W15 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 9, 06:0023.9N 117.9W15 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 9, 12:0023.5N 117.8W15 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 9, 18:0023.3N 117.4W15 kt1013 mbLow
Sep 10, 00:0023.2N 117.0W15 kt1013 mbLow
Sep 10, 06:0023.1N 116.6W15 kt1013 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.