The 2003 season

Hurricane Marty (2003)

Hurricane Marty reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between September 18, 2003 and September 26, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Marty. 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
September 18, 2003 to September 26, 2003
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
EP132003

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Sep 22, 09:30San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 6 km away23.0N 109.7W85 kt (98 mph)970 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 471 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 3.09 inches (78 mm).

StationTotalPosition
TKLT23.09 in (78 mm)31.33N 100.63W
ORGA32.83 in (72 mm)31.95N 112.80W
MAAT22.35 in (60 mm)30.79N 99.22W
DAVA32.32 in (59 mm)32.00N 110.65W
AJOA32.27 in (58 mm)32.37N 112.86W
MSNT22.27 in (58 mm)30.74N 99.24W
AMIT22.22 in (56 mm)29.47N 101.03W
QEMA32.20 in (56 mm)31.78N 110.63W
GLCT22.15 in (55 mm)31.88N 99.67W
HAYA32.12 in (54 mm)31.91N 110.45W
MTLA32.12 in (54 mm)32.44N 110.79W
PNDT22.11 in (54 mm)30.12N 101.53W

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 18, 18:0016.5N 105.7W25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0016.8N 106.3W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 06:0016.9N 106.8W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0017.1N 107.1W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0017.3N 107.2W40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0017.5N 107.3W40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0017.7N 107.5W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0018.0N 107.9W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0018.3N 108.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0018.6N 108.6W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 21, 06:0018.9N 108.8W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 21, 12:0019.3N 109.1W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 21, 18:0020.1N 109.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 00:0021.0N 109.5W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 06:0022.0N 109.6W85 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 09:30 landfall23.0N 109.7W85 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 12:0023.7N 109.9W80 kt971 mbHurricane
Sep 22, 18:0025.4N 110.8W70 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 23, 00:0027.0N 111.8W60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0028.3N 112.5W50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0029.4N 113.2W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0029.9N 113.5W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 24, 00:0030.5N 113.7W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 24, 06:0030.8N 113.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 24, 12:0031.1N 113.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 24, 18:0031.5N 113.6W20 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 00:0031.5N 114.1W20 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 25, 06:0031.1N 114.2W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 25, 12:0030.7N 114.3W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 25, 18:0030.2N 114.5W20 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 26, 00:0029.9N 114.7W20 kt1012 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.