The 2006 season

Tropical Storm Miriam (2006)

Tropical Storm Miriam peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 16, 2006 and September 21, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Miriam, 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
September 16, 2006 to September 21, 2006
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 60 km (37 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
8 kt (9 mph)
Identifier
EP142006

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 16, 00:0017.3N 115.0W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 06:0017.4N 114.7W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 12:0017.7N 114.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0018.1N 114.2W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0018.5N 114.1W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0018.7N 114.0W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0018.9N 113.9W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0019.0N 113.8W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0019.1N 113.7W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0019.5N 113.6W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0019.9N 113.6W25 kt1003 mbLow
Sep 18, 18:0020.3N 113.7W25 kt1004 mbLow
Sep 19, 00:0020.7N 113.9W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 19, 06:0021.2N 114.2W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 19, 12:0021.8N 114.6W25 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 19, 18:0022.5N 114.8W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 20, 00:0023.2N 114.9W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 20, 06:0023.6N 114.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 20, 12:0024.0N 114.3W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 20, 18:0024.3N 113.8W20 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 21, 00:0024.4N 113.2W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 21, 06:0024.4N 112.6W20 kt1009 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.