Cyclone Rene (2010)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

February 9, 2010 to February 19, 2010

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

948 mb (27.99 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 130 km (81 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

11.9

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)

Overall size

250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

33 kt (38 mph)

Identifier

SH152010

The sources count different things and are not added together.

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

Deaths

0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

none recorded

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

2 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

2 hurricane (typhoon).

• Cyclone LaurenceSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 4130 kt · 926 mb
• Cyclone MickSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 165 kt · 974 mb
• Tropical Storm NevilleSouth Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm35 kt · 997 mb
• Tropical Storm OlgaSouth Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm45 kt · 987 mb
• Tropical Storm NishaSouth Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Cyclone OliSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 4115 kt · 937 mb
• Cyclone PatSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 290 kt · 956 mb
• Tropical Storm SarahSouth Pacific · 2010Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Cyclone TomasSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 4115 kt · 937 mb
• Cyclone UluiSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 5140 kt · 918 mb
• Cyclone PaulSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 170 kt · 970 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.