The 2011 season

Hurricane Calvin (2011)

Hurricane Calvin reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 7, 2011 and July 14, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Calvin, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2011 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 7, 2011 to July 14, 2011
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 262 km (163 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 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
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
85 kt (98 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP032011

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 7, 00:0013.6N 99.1W25 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 7, 06:0014.3N 100.2W25 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 7, 12:0014.8N 101.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 7, 18:0015.3N 102.6W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 8, 00:0015.7N 103.9W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0016.0N 105.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0016.3N 106.9W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0016.5N 108.1W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 9, 00:0016.7N 109.1W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Jul 9, 06:0016.9N 110.0W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 9, 12:0017.1N 110.8W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0017.3N 111.6W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0017.5N 112.4W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0017.8N 113.1W35 kt1001 mbLow
Jul 10, 12:0018.0N 113.8W35 kt1001 mbLow
Jul 10, 18:0018.2N 114.5W35 kt1002 mbLow
Jul 11, 00:0018.4N 115.2W35 kt1002 mbLow
Jul 11, 06:0018.7N 115.8W35 kt1003 mbLow
Jul 11, 12:0018.9N 116.5W30 kt1004 mbLow
Jul 11, 18:0019.1N 117.0W25 kt1005 mbLow
Jul 12, 00:0019.3N 117.5W25 kt1005 mbLow
Jul 12, 06:0019.3N 118.1W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 12, 12:0019.1N 118.5W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 12, 18:0018.8N 118.9W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 13, 00:0018.6N 119.3W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 13, 06:0018.3N 119.6W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 13, 12:0018.0N 119.9W20 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 13, 18:0017.6N 120.1W15 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 14, 00:0017.2N 120.2W15 kt1008 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2011

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.

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.