The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Norma (2005)

Tropical Storm Norma peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 23, 2005 and October 1, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Norma, 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.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 23, 2005 to October 1, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 527 km (327 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
65 kt (75 mph)
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP142005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 23, 00:0014.8N 108.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 06:0014.9N 109.1W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 12:0015.0N 109.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0015.2N 109.9W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0015.4N 110.2W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0015.7N 110.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0016.0N 110.6W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0016.3N 110.8W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0016.7N 111.0W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0017.1N 111.2W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0017.6N 111.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0018.0N 112.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0018.5N 112.8W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0019.0N 113.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0019.6N 114.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0020.3N 114.7W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 27, 00:0021.0N 115.3W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 27, 06:0021.6N 116.1W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 27, 12:0022.0N 116.7W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 27, 18:0022.3N 117.3W25 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 28, 00:0022.3N 117.8W20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 28, 06:0022.2N 118.3W20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 28, 12:0021.9N 118.7W20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 28, 18:0021.5N 119.0W20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 29, 00:0021.1N 119.4W20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 29, 06:0020.6N 119.9W20 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 29, 12:0020.0N 120.4W20 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 29, 18:0019.5N 120.7W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 30, 00:0019.2N 120.7W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 30, 06:0018.9N 120.5W15 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 30, 12:0018.8N 120.2W15 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 30, 18:0018.7N 119.9W15 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 1, 00:0018.6N 119.5W15 kt1010 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.