The 2009 season

Tropical Storm Nora (2009)

Tropical Storm Nora peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 20, 2009 and September 29, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nora, 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
September 20, 2009 to September 29, 2009
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 747 km (464 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
60 kt (69 mph)
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP172009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 20, 18:0012.9N 107.6W20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 21, 00:0012.9N 108.9W20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 21, 06:0012.9N 110.2W20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 21, 12:0012.9N 111.5W20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 21, 18:0013.1N 112.1W20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 22, 00:0013.5N 113.0W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 22, 06:0013.9N 113.8W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 22, 12:0014.4N 114.6W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 22, 18:0014.9N 115.3W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 23, 00:0015.4N 115.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 06:0015.9N 116.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0016.4N 117.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0016.8N 118.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0017.1N 118.9W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0017.3N 119.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0017.4N 120.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0017.4N 120.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0017.4N 121.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 06:0017.3N 121.8W30 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 25, 12:0017.1N 122.5W30 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 25, 18:0016.7N 123.2W30 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 26, 00:0016.5N 124.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 26, 06:0016.5N 124.7W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 26, 12:0016.6N 125.3W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 26, 18:0016.8N 125.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 27, 00:0017.1N 126.6W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 27, 06:0017.4N 127.4W25 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 27, 12:0017.7N 128.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 27, 18:0018.0N 128.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 28, 00:0018.0N 129.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 28, 06:0017.7N 130.2W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 28, 12:0017.4N 130.7W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 28, 18:0017.0N 131.1W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 29, 00:0016.5N 131.5W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 29, 06:0016.0N 131.8W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 29, 12:0015.5N 132.2W20 kt1010 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.