The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Irwin (2005)

Tropical Storm Irwin peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 25, 2005 and September 2, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Irwin, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 25, 2005 to September 2, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 201 km (125 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP092005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 25, 12:0016.9N 104.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0017.0N 105.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 00:0017.2N 106.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0017.5N 107.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0017.7N 108.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0017.5N 109.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0017.4N 110.5W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0017.4N 111.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0017.4N 112.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0017.3N 113.1W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0017.1N 114.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 06:0017.0N 114.6W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 12:0016.9N 115.2W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 18:0016.9N 115.9W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 29, 00:0017.0N 116.5W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 29, 06:0017.0N 117.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 29, 12:0017.0N 117.4W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 29, 18:0017.0N 117.7W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 30, 00:0017.0N 118.1W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 30, 06:0017.0N 118.6W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 30, 12:0017.1N 119.2W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 30, 18:0017.1N 119.7W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 31, 00:0017.1N 120.1W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 31, 06:0017.0N 120.6W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 31, 12:0017.0N 121.1W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 31, 18:0016.9N 121.6W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 1, 00:0016.8N 122.1W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 1, 06:0016.3N 122.5W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 1, 12:0015.8N 123.1W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 1, 18:0015.4N 123.6W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 2, 00:0014.8N 123.9W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 2, 06:0014.4N 124.5W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 2, 12:0013.9N 125.3W15 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 2, 18:0013.4N 126.2W15 kt1011 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific 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.