The 2011 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2011)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 6, 2011 and October 13, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
October 6, 2011 to October 13, 2011
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
40 kt (46 mph)
Fastest the center moved
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
EP122011

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 12, 16:00Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico, 22 km away16.2N 94.1W30 kt (35 mph)1005 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 6, 18:009.7N 91.7W20 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 7, 00:0010.1N 92.5W20 kt1008 mbLow
Oct 7, 06:0010.6N 93.3W20 kt1008 mbLow
Oct 7, 12:0010.9N 94.1W20 kt1008 mbLow
Oct 7, 18:0011.1N 95.0W20 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 8, 00:0011.2N 95.9W20 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 8, 06:0011.1N 96.4W20 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 8, 12:0010.9N 96.5W20 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 8, 18:0010.8N 96.3W20 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 9, 00:0010.8N 96.1W20 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 9, 06:0010.8N 95.9W20 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 9, 12:0010.9N 95.7W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 9, 18:0011.1N 95.5W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 10, 00:0011.2N 95.3W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 10, 06:0011.3N 95.0W25 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 10, 12:0011.5N 94.7W25 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 10, 18:0011.7N 94.5W25 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 11, 00:0011.9N 94.3W25 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 11, 06:0012.2N 94.1W25 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 11, 12:0012.6N 93.9W25 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 11, 18:0013.1N 93.8W30 kt1005 mbLow
Oct 12, 00:0013.9N 93.8W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 06:0014.8N 93.9W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 12:0015.7N 94.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 16:00 landfall16.2N 94.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 18:0016.4N 94.1W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 13, 00:0016.9N 93.9W20 kt1007 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.