The 2012 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2012)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the South Pacific between June 27, 2012 and July 1, 2012, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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.

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The storm

Basin
South Pacific
Dates
June 27, 2012 to July 1, 2012
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 221 km (137 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Identifier
SH212012

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 27, 00:009.0S 152.6E25 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:009.3S 152.6E25 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:009.6S 152.7E25 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:009.9S 152.7E25 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0010.6S 152.7E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 06:0010.7S 153.1E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 12:0010.8S 153.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 28, 18:0011.1S 153.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 29, 00:0011.3S 154.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 29, 06:0011.6S 154.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 29, 12:0011.7S 154.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0011.5S 155.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0011.0S 154.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 30, 06:0010.7S 154.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 30, 12:0010.4S 154.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 30, 18:0010.0S 154.1E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jul 1, 00:009.7S 153.4E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm

Other South Pacific storms of 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.