The 2006 season

Tropical Storm Fabio (2006)

Tropical Storm Fabio peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 31, 2006 and August 5, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Fabio, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 31, 2006 to August 5, 2006
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 688 km (428 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
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
EP072006

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 31, 18:0014.1N 121.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 00:0014.3N 122.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0014.6N 123.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0014.8N 125.2W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0014.7N 126.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0014.8N 127.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0014.8N 129.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0014.8N 130.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0015.0N 132.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0015.2N 133.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 06:0015.2N 135.0W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 3, 12:0015.1N 136.5W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 3, 18:0015.0N 138.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 4, 00:0015.0N 139.6W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 4, 06:0014.9N 141.2W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 4, 12:0014.9N 142.7W25 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 4, 18:0014.8N 144.1W25 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 5, 00:0014.6N 145.7W25 kt1013 mbLow
Aug 5, 06:0014.4N 147.3W25 kt1013 mbLow
Aug 5, 12:0014.4N 149.0W25 kt1014 mbLow
Aug 5, 18:0014.7N 150.7W25 kt1015 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific 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.