The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Harvey (2005)

Tropical Storm Harvey peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between August 2, 2005 and August 14, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Harvey, 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
August 2, 2005 to August 14, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 854 km (531 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
65 kt (75 mph)
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
AL082005

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

0 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
Aug 2, 18:0028.2N 68.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 00:0028.9N 68.7W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 06:0029.5N 68.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0030.3N 68.3W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0030.9N 67.7W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0031.3N 66.4W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0031.6N 65.0W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0031.9N 63.6W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0032.0N 62.1W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0032.1N 60.5W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0032.4N 59.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0032.5N 58.5W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0032.5N 57.7W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0032.6N 57.1W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0033.0N 56.8W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0033.5N 56.7W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0033.5N 56.7W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0034.1N 55.5W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0035.1N 54.9W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0036.0N 54.0W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0036.8N 52.9W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0037.6N 51.9W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0038.6N 50.7W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0039.6N 48.6W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0040.4N 46.9W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0041.2N 45.0W45 kt997 mbExtratropical
Aug 9, 06:0041.8N 43.0W50 kt995 mbExtratropical
Aug 9, 12:0042.3N 41.1W50 kt995 mbExtratropical
Aug 9, 18:0043.0N 39.0W50 kt994 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 00:0044.0N 37.1W50 kt994 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 06:0044.5N 35.2W50 kt994 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 12:0044.5N 34.1W50 kt994 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 18:0044.4N 33.1W50 kt994 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 00:0044.2N 32.2W45 kt997 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 06:0043.9N 31.5W40 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 12:0043.5N 31.0W35 kt1003 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 18:0043.3N 30.7W30 kt1005 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 00:0043.0N 30.5W30 kt1007 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 06:0042.5N 30.8W30 kt1008 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 12:0042.0N 31.4W30 kt1009 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 18:0041.3N 31.5W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 13, 00:0040.7N 31.5W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 13, 06:0040.5N 31.5W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 13, 12:0040.5N 31.5W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 13, 18:0041.2N 32.0W25 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 14, 00:0042.0N 32.5W25 kt1015 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.