Cyclone Fay (2004)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

March 12, 2004 to March 28, 2004

Peak strength

Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)

Lowest pressure

922 mb (27.23 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

36.1

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)

Overall size

270 nmi (500 km, 311 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

21 kt (24 mph)

Identifier

SH182004

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

• Cyclone DebbieSouth Pacific · 2004Cat 165 kt · 976 mb
• Cyclone HetaSouth Pacific · 2004Cat 5140 kt · 898 mb
• Tropical Storm FritzSouth Pacific · 2004Tropical Storm35 kt · 992 mb
• Cyclone IvySouth Pacific · 2004Cat 3105 kt · 938 mb
• Tropical Depression EvanSouth Pacific · 2004Tropical Depression30 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm GraceSouth Pacific · 2004Tropical Storm50 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2004Tropical Storm35 kt · 997 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Cyclone Fay