Cyclone Jasmine (2012)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

January 31, 2012 to February 16, 2012

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

937 mb (27.67 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

22.1

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

55 nmi (102 km, 63 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)

Overall size

210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

130 kt (150 mph)

Fastest the center moved

21 kt (24 mph)

Identifier

SH102012

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

• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2012Tropical Storm45 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm CyrilSouth Pacific · 2012Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm DaphneSouth Pacific · 2012Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2012Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 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.

• Wikipedia article: Cyclone Jasmine