The 2010 season

Tropical Storm Fiona (2010)

Tropical Storm Fiona peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between August 30, 2010 and September 4, 2010, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Fiona, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
August 30, 2010 to September 4, 2010
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 322 km (200 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
60 kt (69 mph)
Fastest the center moved
24 kt (28 mph)
Identifier
AL082010

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 30, 00:0014.0N 41.8W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 30, 06:0014.1N 43.8W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 30, 12:0014.4N 45.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 18:0014.9N 47.7W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0015.5N 50.0W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0015.9N 52.5W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0016.1N 54.8W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0016.3N 56.9W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0016.6N 58.5W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0017.2N 59.8W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0018.2N 61.0W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0019.5N 62.5W55 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0021.0N 63.8W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0022.3N 64.9W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0023.6N 65.9W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0025.0N 66.6W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0026.3N 67.0W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0027.5N 67.0W40 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0028.5N 66.7W35 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0029.6N 66.0W35 kt1011 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0030.7N 65.0W35 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 4, 06:0031.8N 63.9W30 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 4, 12:0032.9N 62.9W25 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 4, 18:0034.1N 62.0W25 kt1011 mbLow

Other North Atlantic 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.