The 2008 season

Tropical Storm Nana (2008)

Tropical Storm Nana peaked at 35 kt in the North Atlantic between October 12, 2008 and October 15, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nana, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
October 12, 2008 to October 15, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1711 km (1063 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
AL142008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 12, 06:0015.5N 36.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 12:0016.0N 37.1W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0016.4N 37.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0016.5N 38.4W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0016.6N 39.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0016.8N 39.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 13, 18:0017.2N 40.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 00:0017.6N 41.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 06:0018.0N 42.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 12:0018.3N 44.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Oct 14, 18:0018.6N 45.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Oct 15, 00:0019.4N 46.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 15, 06:0020.5N 47.1W25 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 15, 12:0022.0N 48.0W20 kt1011 mbLow

Other North Atlantic 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.