Hurricane Carlos (2009)

Hurricane Carlos reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between July 8, 2009 and July 16, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 971 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Carlos, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2009 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: July 8, 2009 to July 16, 2009
Peak strength: Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure: 971 mb (28.67 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 1100 km (684 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 8.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 110 kt (127 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier: EP042009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jul 8, 12:00	8.8N 106.2W	25 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Jul 8, 18:00	9.0N 106.9W	25 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Jul 9, 00:00	9.2N 107.7W	25 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Jul 9, 06:00	9.4N 108.5W	25 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Jul 9, 12:00	9.6N 109.1W	25 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Jul 9, 18:00	9.8N 109.7W	25 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Jul 10, 00:00	9.9N 110.3W	25 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Jul 10, 06:00	10.0N 111.0W	25 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 10, 12:00	10.1N 112.2W	30 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 10, 18:00	10.2N 113.4W	35 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 11, 00:00	10.3N 114.5W	45 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 11, 06:00	10.3N 115.5W	50 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 11, 12:00	10.4N 116.4W	60 kt	991 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 11, 18:00	10.5N 117.3W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Jul 12, 00:00	10.5N 118.4W	75 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Jul 12, 06:00	10.5N 119.4W	75 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Jul 12, 12:00	10.4N 120.4W	75 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Jul 12, 18:00	10.4N 121.4W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Jul 13, 00:00	10.2N 122.4W	50 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 13, 06:00	10.0N 123.5W	45 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 13, 12:00	9.8N 124.6W	45 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 13, 18:00	9.6N 125.6W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 14, 00:00	9.6N 126.2W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 14, 06:00	9.7N 126.8W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 14, 12:00	9.9N 127.4W	75 kt	981 mb	Hurricane
Jul 14, 18:00	10.0N 127.9W	80 kt	978 mb	Hurricane
Jul 15, 00:00	10.1N 128.3W	90 kt	971 mb	Hurricane
Jul 15, 06:00	10.1N 128.8W	90 kt	972 mb	Hurricane
Jul 15, 12:00	10.1N 129.4W	75 kt	978 mb	Hurricane
Jul 15, 18:00	10.2N 130.4W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 16, 00:00	10.2N 131.5W	45 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 16, 06:00	10.0N 132.9W	30 kt	1003 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 16, 12:00	9.7N 134.3W	25 kt	1005 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 16, 18:00	9.4N 135.7W	25 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2009

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.