The 2009 season

Tropical Storm Enrique (2009)

Tropical Storm Enrique peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 3, 2009 and August 8, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Enrique, 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
August 3, 2009 to August 8, 2009
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 828 km (514 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
60 kt (69 mph)
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP072009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 3, 00:0012.5N 108.3W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 3, 06:0012.6N 109.6W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 3, 12:0012.7N 110.8W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 3, 18:0012.9N 112.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 00:0013.2N 113.6W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0013.7N 114.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0014.3N 116.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0014.9N 117.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0015.6N 119.1W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0016.4N 120.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0017.2N 121.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0018.1N 122.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0019.1N 124.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0020.1N 125.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0021.0N 126.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0022.0N 127.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0022.8N 128.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 06:0023.6N 129.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 12:0024.2N 129.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 18:0024.8N 129.6W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 00:0025.0N 129.7W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 8, 06:0024.7N 129.8W20 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 8, 12:0024.3N 129.9W20 kt1009 mbLow

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.