The 2010 season

Tropical Storm Neville (2010)

Tropical Storm Neville peaked at 35 kt in the South Pacific between January 19, 2010 and January 23, 2010, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Neville, 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
South Pacific
Dates
January 19, 2010 to January 23, 2010
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 154 km (96 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
2010020S14147

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 19, 12:0014.1S 146.6E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0014.1S 147.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0014.5S 147.8E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0014.7S 147.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0014.7S 147.3E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0014.6S 147.2E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0014.6S 147.4E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0014.4S 147.2E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0014.2S 147.4E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0014.3S 147.3E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0014.4S 147.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0014.4S 147.1E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 12:0014.6S 146.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0014.7S 146.7E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0013.7S 146.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0013.6S 146.7E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0013.6S 148.7E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm

Other South 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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.