The 2009 season

Tropical Storm Kevin (2009)

Tropical Storm Kevin peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 26, 2009 and September 6, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Kevin, 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 26, 2009 to September 6, 2009
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1034 km (642 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
EP142009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 26, 18:009.7N 107.1W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 27, 00:0010.0N 108.8W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 27, 06:0010.2N 110.4W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 27, 12:0010.5N 112.0W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 27, 18:0010.9N 113.8W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 28, 00:0011.0N 115.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 28, 06:0011.1N 116.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 28, 12:0011.2N 117.3W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 28, 18:0011.5N 118.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 29, 00:0011.9N 119.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 29, 06:0012.2N 120.3W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 29, 12:0012.5N 121.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 18:0012.7N 121.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0013.3N 121.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0013.9N 122.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0014.5N 122.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0015.1N 122.0W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0015.6N 121.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0016.1N 121.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0016.5N 121.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0016.9N 121.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:0017.3N 121.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0017.6N 121.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0017.9N 121.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0018.2N 121.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 2, 00:0018.4N 121.7W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 2, 06:0018.5N 121.5W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 2, 12:0018.7N 121.3W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 2, 18:0019.0N 121.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 3, 00:0019.4N 120.8W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 3, 06:0019.7N 120.6W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 3, 12:0019.8N 121.0W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 3, 18:0019.9N 121.5W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 4, 00:0019.8N 122.1W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 4, 06:0019.5N 122.7W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 4, 12:0019.1N 123.3W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 4, 18:0018.7N 124.0W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 5, 00:0018.2N 124.8W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 5, 06:0017.8N 125.7W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 5, 12:0017.3N 126.6W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 5, 18:0016.8N 127.6W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 6, 00:0016.3N 128.6W20 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 6, 06:0015.8N 129.7W20 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.