The 2006 season

Tropical Storm Norman (2006)

Tropical Storm Norman peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 9, 2006 and October 15, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Norman, 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
October 9, 2006 to October 15, 2006
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 38 km (24 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
EP152006

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 9, 00:0014.2N 117.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 06:0014.8N 117.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 12:0015.4N 117.7W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0015.9N 117.8W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0016.2N 117.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0016.4N 118.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0016.5N 118.1W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0016.6N 117.9W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 00:0016.7N 117.3W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 06:0016.7N 116.4W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 12:0016.8N 115.7W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 18:0017.0N 115.2W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 12, 00:0016.9N 114.6W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 12, 06:0016.5N 114.0W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 12, 12:0016.2N 113.3W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 12, 18:0015.9N 112.6W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 13, 00:0015.7N 112.2W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 13, 06:0015.4N 111.9W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 13, 12:0015.1N 111.4W30 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 13, 18:0014.8N 110.6W30 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 14, 00:0014.7N 109.7W30 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 14, 06:0014.5N 108.0W30 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 14, 12:0014.5N 105.9W30 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 14, 18:0015.3N 104.3W30 kt1004 mbLow
Oct 15, 00:0016.4N 103.6W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 06:0017.6N 103.6W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 12:0018.2N 104.1W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 18:0018.8N 104.6W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression

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.