Tropical Storm Joyce (2012)
Tropical Storm Joyce peaked at 35 kt in the North Atlantic between August 21, 2012 and August 24, 2012, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Joyce, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2012 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- August 21, 2012 to August 24, 2012
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 1571 km (976 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.2
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
- Overall size
- 250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 16 kt (18 mph)
- Identifier
- AL102012
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 18:00 | 10.7N 31.7W | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Low |
| Aug 22, 00:00 | 11.1N 33.1W | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Low |
| Aug 22, 06:00 | 11.5N 34.5W | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 22, 12:00 | 12.1N 35.8W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 22, 18:00 | 12.8N 37.3W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 00:00 | 13.5N 38.7W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 06:00 | 14.2N 40.0W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 12:00 | 14.8N 41.1W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 23, 18:00 | 15.5N 42.1W | 35 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 24, 00:00 | 16.1N 43.2W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 24, 06:00 | 16.7N 44.3W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 24, 12:00 | 17.4N 45.4W | 30 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2012
- Tropical Storm AlbertoNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Tropical Storm BerylNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane ChrisNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Tropical Storm DebbyNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane ErnestoNorth Atlantic · 2012 · 12 deaths
- Tropical Storm FlorenceNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Tropical Storm HeleneNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane GordonNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane IsaacNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane LeslieNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane KirkNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane MichaelNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane NadineNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Tropical Storm OscarNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Tropical Storm PattyNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane RafaelNorth Atlantic · 2012
- Hurricane SandyNorth Atlantic · 2012 · 254 deaths · $69 billion
- Tropical Storm TonyNorth Atlantic · 2012
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.