The 2009 season

Tropical Storm Maka (2009)

Tropical Storm Maka peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 8, 2009 and August 18, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Maka, 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 8, 2009 to August 18, 2009
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1037 km (644 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 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
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
CP012009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 8, 18:0010.0N 159.0W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 9, 00:0010.7N 160.2W15 kt1012 mbDisturbance
Aug 9, 06:0011.2N 161.4W20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 9, 12:0011.7N 162.5W20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 9, 18:0012.0N 163.7W20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 00:0012.3N 165.0W20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 06:0012.5N 166.3W20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 12:0012.8N 167.6W20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 18:0013.1N 168.8W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 00:0013.4N 169.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 06:0013.7N 170.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 12:0013.9N 171.3W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0014.1N 171.8W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0014.3N 172.4W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 06:0014.4N 173.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 12:0014.2N 175.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 18:0014.3N 176.8W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 00:0014.4N 178.3W25 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 06:0014.3N 179.7W25 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 12:0014.2N 179.7E25 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 18:0014.0N 179.2E25 kt1011 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 00:0013.8N 178.6E20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 06:0013.1N 177.3E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 12:0013.3N 175.9E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 18:0013.5N 174.6E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 00:0013.7N 174.0E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 06:0014.4N 173.2E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 12:0014.9N 173.1E30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 18:0015.3N 173.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0015.8N 173.2E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0016.0N 173.2E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0016.1N 173.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0016.3N 173.1E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0016.3N 172.8E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0016.2N 172.6E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 12:0016.1N 172.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 18:0016.1N 172.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 00:0016.0N 171.6E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 06:0015.9N 171.1E25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 12:0016.0N 170.7E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 18, 18:0015.9N 170.2E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.