Tropical Storm Alvin (2013)
Tropical Storm Alvin peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between May 13, 2013 and May 17, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Alvin, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2013 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
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- May 13, 2013 to May 17, 2013
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 846 km (526 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.0
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 14 kt (16 mph)
- Identifier
- EP012013
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:00 | 6.7N 95.2W | 20 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
| May 13, 18:00 | 6.9N 95.9W | 20 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| May 14, 00:00 | 7.0N 96.8W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| May 14, 06:00 | 7.1N 97.7W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| May 14, 12:00 | 7.2N 98.7W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| May 14, 18:00 | 7.4N 99.8W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| May 15, 00:00 | 7.6N 101.0W | 25 kt | 1006 mb | Low |
| May 15, 06:00 | 7.8N 102.3W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 15, 12:00 | 8.1N 103.6W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 15, 18:00 | 8.4N 104.6W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 16, 00:00 | 8.6N 105.5W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 16, 06:00 | 8.9N 106.4W | 50 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 16, 12:00 | 9.1N 107.4W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 16, 18:00 | 9.3N 108.8W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 17, 00:00 | 9.6N 110.1W | 35 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2013
- Hurricane BarbaraEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane CosmeEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane DalilaEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane ErickEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm FlossieEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane GilEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane HenrietteEastern Pacific · 2013
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm UnalaEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane PewaEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm IvoEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm JulietteEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane KikoEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm LorenaEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane ManuelEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm NardaEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm OctaveEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm PriscillaEastern Pacific · 2013
- Hurricane RaymondEastern Pacific · 2013
- Tropical Storm SoniaEastern Pacific · 2013
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.