The 2006 season

Tropical Storm Debby (2006)

Tropical Storm Debby peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 21, 2006 and August 28, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Debby, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2006 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 21, 2006 to August 28, 2006
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 540 km (336 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
AL052006

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 21, 18:0011.6N 21.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 00:0012.0N 22.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 06:0012.6N 23.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 12:0013.4N 25.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 18:0014.2N 26.7W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 00:0014.9N 28.1W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0015.7N 29.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0016.7N 31.0W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0017.6N 32.4W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0018.4N 33.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0019.2N 35.5W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0020.1N 37.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0020.9N 38.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0021.7N 40.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0022.6N 41.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0023.6N 42.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0024.4N 44.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0024.8N 45.1W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0025.2N 46.1W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 12:0025.7N 46.9W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 26, 18:0026.5N 47.5W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 27, 00:0027.3N 48.1W25 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 27, 06:0028.3N 48.8W25 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 27, 12:0029.4N 49.1W25 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 27, 18:0030.6N 48.9W25 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 28, 00:0032.1N 48.3W25 kt1012 mbLow

Other North Atlantic storms of 2006

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.