The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Gamma (2005)

Tropical Storm Gamma peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between November 14, 2005 and November 22, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb, and made landfall. It killed 37 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Gamma, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2005 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
North Atlantic
Dates
November 14, 2005 to November 22, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
22 kt (25 mph)
Identifier
AL282005

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

37 direct deathsnone recorded in the United States

The season table in NHC’s report archive, final report. Direct deaths are those caused by the storm’s own wind, water or surge, anywhere in the world.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 14, 00:0013.2N 62.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 14, 06:0013.6N 62.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 14, 12:0013.8N 63.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 14, 18:0014.1N 64.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Nov 15, 00:0014.2N 65.0W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 15, 06:0014.3N 66.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 15, 12:0014.4N 67.1W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 15, 18:0014.7N 68.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 00:0014.8N 69.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 06:0014.8N 71.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 12:0014.7N 73.1W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 18:0014.8N 75.4W25 kt1006 mbTropical wave
Nov 17, 00:0015.0N 77.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical wave
Nov 17, 06:0015.3N 79.7W25 kt1008 mbTropical wave
Nov 17, 12:0015.6N 81.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical wave
Nov 17, 18:0015.8N 83.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical wave
Nov 18, 00:0015.8N 84.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical wave
Nov 18, 06:0015.7N 84.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical wave
Nov 18, 12:0015.5N 85.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical wave
Nov 18, 18:0015.7N 85.6W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 00:0016.0N 85.6W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 06:0016.1N 85.6W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 12:0016.1N 85.4W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 18:0016.2N 85.2W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 20, 00:0016.4N 85.0W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Nov 20, 06:0016.6N 85.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 20, 12:0016.7N 85.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 20, 18:0016.9N 85.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 21, 00:0017.1N 85.5W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Nov 21, 06:0017.0N 85.2W25 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 21, 12:0016.7N 84.8W25 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 21, 18:0016.4N 84.3W25 kt1009 mbLow
Nov 22, 00:0015.4N 83.5W25 kt1009 mbLow

Other North Atlantic storms of 2005

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.