The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Lee (2005)

Tropical Storm Lee peaked at 35 kt in the North Atlantic between August 28, 2005 and September 3, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Lee, 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 28, 2005 to September 3, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1023 km (636 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
22 kt (25 mph)
Identifier
AL132005

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 28, 12:0014.0N 45.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 18:0014.9N 46.4W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 00:0015.7N 47.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 06:0017.0N 48.9W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 12:0017.7N 50.6W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 18:0018.5N 52.5W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 30, 00:0020.5N 53.2W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 30, 06:0022.1N 53.6W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 30, 12:0024.2N 54.2W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 30, 18:0025.5N 53.6W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 31, 00:0026.9N 52.7W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 31, 06:0028.0N 51.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0029.0N 50.4W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0030.1N 50.1W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0031.1N 50.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0031.9N 51.2W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0031.9N 51.4W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0032.3N 51.5W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0032.4N 52.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 06:0032.6N 52.3W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 2, 12:0033.2N 52.3W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 2, 18:0033.9N 52.7W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 3, 00:0034.7N 53.2W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 3, 06:0035.5N 53.9W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 3, 12:0036.6N 54.2W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 3, 18:0037.4N 53.9W25 kt1010 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.