The 2011 season

Tropical Storm Cindy (2011)

Tropical Storm Cindy peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between July 20, 2011 and July 23, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cindy, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
July 20, 2011 to July 23, 2011
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 816 km (507 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
60 kt (69 mph)
Fastest the center moved
33 kt (38 mph)
Identifier
AL032011

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 20, 06:0033.0N 59.5W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 12:0033.4N 57.0W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0034.5N 54.7W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0035.8N 52.5W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0037.4N 50.5W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0039.4N 48.4W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0041.3N 46.1W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0042.6N 43.7W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0043.8N 41.2W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0045.1N 38.6W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0046.7N 35.6W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0048.4N 32.1W40 kt1003 mbLow
Jul 23, 06:0050.0N 27.8W35 kt1005 mbLow

Other North Atlantic 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.