Tropical Storm Georgette (2010)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

September 20, 2010 to September 23, 2010

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)

Lowest pressure

999 mb (29.50 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.6

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)

Overall size

150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

45 kt (52 mph)

Fastest the center moved

13 kt (15 mph)

Identifier

EP122010

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

1 (1 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

$82,000

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

9 in 5 reports from 3 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

6 flash flood, 3 heavy rain.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

A 27-year old man was swept away by fast flowing water in the I-40 Channel. The man was walking in the arroyo with his brother near I-40 and Louisiana, when a rush of water swept the man off his feet. The man traveled west to the North Diversion Channel, then north to the Rio Grande River. He was found dead along a sand bar in the Rio Grande River three days later near Coors Bypass. He traveled a total distance of 13 miles. His brother made it out alive, without injury.

Bernalillo, New Mexico · Flash Flood · Sep 22, 20:45 UTC

At 4:10 PM MST, a trained weather spotter relayed a report of up to 1 1/2' of water on Mesa Street in Carlsbad. A car was also stalled/flooded at the intersection of Blodgett and Mesquite Street. Flooding continued almost through 9:00 PM MST across Carlsbad. One foot of flowing water was reported to be flowing over Blodgett and Pate Streets at 8:40 PM MST.

Eddy, New Mexico · Flash Flood · Sep 22, 23:10 UTC

Thunderstorms developed over Clifton around 4:30 pm and intense rainfall resulted. According to Clifton officials, 2.25 inches fell in about 45 minutes, on already saturated soil. The storm resulted in tons of mud and rock piled on city streets. Two unoccupied vehicles parked on Turner Avenue were washed down Ward's Canyon and into the San Francisco River. A third vehicle was tossed onto its side in the canyon about 100 yards from the canyon's confluence with the river. Flash flooding also resulted in damage to a main water line feeding Clifton.

Greenlee, Arizona · Flash Flood · Sep 22, 23:30 UTC

Heavy rain caused flooding in northern Culberson county. This flooding took place 16 miles south of whites City where arroyos and streams were flooded as well as low water crossings.

Culberson, Texas · Flash Flood · Sep 23, 13:40 UTC

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• 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
• Hurricane FrankEastern Pacific · 2010Cat 180 kt · 978 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Depression30 kt · 1003 mb
• Tropical Storm HermineEastern Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm60 kt · 989 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: Tropical Storm Georgette