Tropical Storm Blas (2010)

Tropical Storm Blas peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 15, 2010 and June 23, 2010, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Blas, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2010 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: June 15, 2010 to June 23, 2010
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure: 994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 421 km (262 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 2.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size: 240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 65 kt (75 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier: EP032010

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jun 15, 06:00	14.6N 105.3W	20 kt	1008 mb	Low
Jun 15, 12:00	14.7N 105.2W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Jun 15, 18:00	14.9N 105.3W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Jun 16, 00:00	15.0N 105.5W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Jun 16, 06:00	14.8N 105.7W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Jun 16, 12:00	14.6N 105.6W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Jun 16, 18:00	14.7N 105.4W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Jun 17, 00:00	14.8N 105.4W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Jun 17, 06:00	14.9N 105.5W	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 17, 12:00	15.0N 105.7W	35 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 17, 18:00	15.2N 106.0W	40 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 18, 00:00	15.4N 106.4W	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 18, 06:00	15.6N 106.8W	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 18, 12:00	15.8N 107.3W	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 18, 18:00	16.1N 107.8W	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 19, 00:00	16.3N 108.4W	45 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 19, 06:00	16.4N 109.0W	50 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 19, 12:00	16.5N 109.6W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 19, 18:00	16.7N 110.3W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 00:00	17.0N 111.1W	50 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 06:00	17.3N 112.0W	45 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 12:00	17.6N 113.0W	40 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 20, 18:00	17.7N 114.2W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 21, 00:00	17.8N 115.4W	30 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 21, 06:00	17.8N 116.7W	30 kt	1008 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 21, 12:00	17.6N 117.9W	30 kt	1009 mb	Tropical depression
Jun 21, 18:00	17.3N 119.2W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low
Jun 22, 00:00	17.0N 120.5W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low
Jun 22, 06:00	16.7N 121.8W	25 kt	1010 mb	Low
Jun 22, 12:00	16.5N 123.2W	25 kt	1010 mb	Low
Jun 22, 18:00	16.3N 124.6W	25 kt	1010 mb	Low
Jun 23, 00:00	16.2N 125.9W	25 kt	1011 mb	Low

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2010

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.