Tropical Storm Melissa (2007)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 28, 2007 to October 5, 2007

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)

Lowest pressure

1005 mb (29.68 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 897 km (557 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.5

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)

Overall size

175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

50 kt (58 mph)

Fastest the center moved

15 kt (17 mph)

Identifier

AL142007

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

• Hurricane AndreaNorth Atlantic · 2007Cat 165 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm BarryNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm50 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm ChantalNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm60 kt · 964 mb
• Hurricane DeanNorth Atlantic · 2007Cat 5150 kt · 905 mb
• Tropical Storm ErinNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm50 kt · 995 mb
• Hurricane FelixNorth Atlantic · 2007Cat 5150 kt · 929 mb
• Tropical Storm GabrielleNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm50 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm IngridNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm40 kt · 1002 mb
• Hurricane HumbertoNorth Atlantic · 2007Cat 180 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Depression30 kt · 1005 mb
• Tropical Storm JerryNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm35 kt · 1003 mb
• Hurricane KarenNorth Atlantic · 2007Cat 165 kt · 988 mb
• Hurricane LorenzoNorth Atlantic · 2007Cat 170 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm45 kt · 996 mb
• Hurricane NoelNorth Atlantic · 2007Cat 175 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm OlgaNorth Atlantic · 2007Tropical Storm50 kt · 1003 mb

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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live