The 2008 season

Tropical Storm Iselle (2008)

Tropical Storm Iselle peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 13, 2008 and August 23, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Iselle, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2008 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
August 13, 2008 to August 23, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 301 km (187 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 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
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP102008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 13, 12:0016.3N 105.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 18:0016.7N 106.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0017.1N 107.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0017.4N 108.2W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0017.6N 109.1W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0017.6N 109.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0017.6N 110.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0017.7N 110.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0017.8N 111.1W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0017.9N 111.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0018.1N 111.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 06:0018.3N 111.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 12:0018.4N 112.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 18:0018.4N 112.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 00:0018.5N 112.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 17, 06:0018.7N 112.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 17, 12:0018.8N 113.6W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 17, 18:0018.8N 114.3W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 18, 00:0018.8N 114.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 18, 06:0018.9N 115.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 18, 12:0019.0N 116.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 18, 18:0019.0N 117.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 19, 00:0018.8N 117.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 19, 06:0018.5N 118.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 19, 12:0018.2N 119.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 19, 18:0017.8N 119.7W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 20, 00:0017.3N 120.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 20, 06:0016.7N 120.5W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 20, 12:0016.1N 120.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 20, 18:0015.5N 121.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 21, 00:0014.9N 121.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 21, 06:0014.4N 122.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 21, 12:0014.1N 123.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 21, 18:0013.8N 123.7W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 22, 00:0013.6N 124.2W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 22, 06:0013.4N 124.7W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 22, 12:0013.3N 125.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 22, 18:0013.3N 125.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 23, 00:0013.5N 125.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 23, 06:0013.8N 125.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 23, 12:0013.9N 125.9W20 kt1010 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2008

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.