Hurricane Frank (2010)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 21, 2010 to August 29, 2010

Peak strength

Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)

Lowest pressure

978 mb (28.88 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 132 km (82 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

8.2

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)

Overall size

225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

100 kt (115 mph)

Fastest the center moved

12 kt (14 mph)

Identifier

EP092010

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

• Tropical Storm AgathaEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm40 kt · 1001 mb
• Tropical Storm BlasEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm55 kt · 994 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Depression30 kt · 1007 mb
• Hurricane CeliaEastern Pacific · 2010Cat 5140 kt · 921 mb
• Hurricane DarbyEastern Pacific · 2010Cat 3105 kt · 959 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb
• Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm55 kt · 994 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Depression30 kt · 1003 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Depression30 kt · 1003 mb
• Tropical Storm HermineEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm60 kt · 989 mb
• Tropical Storm GeorgetteEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm35 kt · 999 mb

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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Frank