The 2013 season

Tropical Storm Barry (2013)

Tropical Storm Barry peaked at 40 kt in the North Atlantic between June 16, 2013 and June 21, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb, and made landfall. It killed 5 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Barry, 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.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
June 16, 2013 to June 21, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
AL022013

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

5 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Landfalls

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Jun 17, 22:00Lívingston, Izabal Department, Guatemala, 84 km away16.5N 88.4W30 kt (35 mph)1006 mb
Jun 20, 11:15José Cardel, Veracruz, Mexico, 26 km away19.6N 96.4W40 kt (46 mph)1003 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
Jun 16, 00:0012.4N 81.5W20 kt1009 mbLow
Jun 16, 06:0013.4N 82.0W20 kt1009 mbLow
Jun 16, 12:0014.2N 82.8W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jun 16, 18:0014.8N 83.8W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jun 17, 00:0015.3N 84.8W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jun 17, 06:0015.6N 85.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jun 17, 12:0016.0N 87.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 17, 18:0016.3N 87.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 17, 22:00 landfall16.5N 88.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 00:0016.6N 88.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 06:0017.0N 89.3W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 12:0017.6N 90.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 18:0018.2N 91.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 19, 00:0018.8N 92.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 19, 06:0019.2N 93.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 19, 12:0019.5N 94.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0019.6N 94.8W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 00:0019.6N 95.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 06:0019.6N 95.9W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 11:15 landfall19.6N 96.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 12:0019.6N 96.5W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 18:0019.6N 97.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 21, 00:0019.6N 97.5W25 kt1011 mbLow

Other North Atlantic storms of 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.