Tropical Storm Sarah (2010)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

February 20, 2010 to March 4, 2010

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)

Lowest pressure

996 mb (29.41 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 864 km (537 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.5

Identifier

SH172010

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

• 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
• Cyclone ReneSouth Pacific · 2010Cat 3100 kt · 948 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.