The 2007 season

Tropical Storm Chantal (2007)

Tropical Storm Chantal peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between July 31, 2007 and August 5, 2007, with a lowest pressure of 964 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Chantal, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2007 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
July 31, 2007 to August 5, 2007
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
964 mb (28.47 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
400 nmi (741 km, 460 mi) from the center at its widest
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
57 kt (66 mph)
Identifier
AL032007

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 31, 00:0035.5N 66.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 06:0037.1N 65.5W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0039.1N 64.2W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0040.7N 62.3W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0042.5N 60.0W45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0044.0N 57.5W45 kt992 mbExtratropical
Aug 1, 12:0046.0N 54.5W55 kt990 mbExtratropical
Aug 1, 18:0049.0N 49.5W60 kt988 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 00:0053.0N 43.0W60 kt985 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 06:0055.5N 38.5W50 kt975 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 12:0057.5N 35.4W50 kt970 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 18:0058.6N 33.9W55 kt967 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 00:0058.9N 32.1W60 kt964 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 06:0058.9N 30.4W60 kt964 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 12:0058.9N 28.0W60 kt964 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 18:0058.9N 25.2W55 kt967 mbExtratropical
Aug 4, 00:0059.1N 22.6W55 kt967 mbExtratropical
Aug 4, 06:0059.5N 19.1W50 kt970 mbExtratropical
Aug 4, 12:0060.7N 16.3W50 kt975 mbExtratropical
Aug 4, 18:0061.7N 14.0W45 kt978 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 00:0062.7N 12.0W45 kt980 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 06:0064.0N 9.5W45 kt982 mbExtratropical
Aug 5, 12:0066.0N 7.0W35 kt985 mbExtratropical

Other North Atlantic storms of 2007

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.