The 2003 season

Tropical Storm Yanyan (2003)

Tropical Storm Yanyan peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between January 11, 2003 and January 21, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 987 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Yanyan, 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
January 11, 2003 to January 21, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
987 mb (29.15 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1448 km (900 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.4
Identifier
WP012003

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Jan 18, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 11, 06:001.9N 179.8W15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 11, 12:001.9N 179.6E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 11, 18:001.9N 179.0E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 12, 00:001.8N 178.5E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 12, 06:001.6N 178.0E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 12, 12:001.3N 177.6E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 12, 18:001.6N 177.2E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 13, 00:001.9N 176.8E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 13, 06:002.4N 176.2E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 13, 12:003.1N 175.1E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 13, 18:004.1N 173.4E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 00:005.1N 171.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 06:005.7N 169.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 12:005.8N 168.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 18:005.6N 166.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 15, 00:005.4N 165.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 15, 06:006.0N 164.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 15, 12:006.7N 162.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 15, 18:007.3N 160.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 00:007.9N 159.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 06:008.5N 157.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 12:008.8N 156.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 18:009.4N 154.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 17, 00:0010.0N 153.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0010.9N 151.4E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0011.7N 149.9E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 17, 18:0012.4N 148.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0013.2N 147.4E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0013.7N 146.7E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0014.1N 146.8E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0014.3N 147.4E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0014.5N 148.2E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0014.8N 149.0E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0015.4N 149.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0016.1N 150.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0016.7N 152.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0017.2N 153.4E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0017.6N 154.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0018.0N 155.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 21, 00:0018.2N 156.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 21, 06:0018.4N 156.6E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 21, 12:0018.5N 156.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression

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.