The 2013 season

Tropical Storm Flossie (2013)

Tropical Storm Flossie peaked at 60 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 25, 2013 and July 30, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Flossie, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 25, 2013 to July 30, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 22 km (14 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved
21 kt (24 mph)
Identifier
EP062013

Radar at PHKI as it neared land, Jul 30, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 25, 00:0014.9N 121.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 25, 06:0014.9N 123.5W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0014.9N 125.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0014.8N 126.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0015.1N 128.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0015.5N 129.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0015.9N 131.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0016.3N 133.3W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0016.8N 135.0W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0017.2N 136.7W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0017.7N 138.4W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0018.4N 140.2W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0018.9N 142.3W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0019.3N 144.3W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0019.7N 146.0W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0019.8N 147.7W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0019.7N 149.4W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0019.9N 151.1W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0020.2N 152.7W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0020.5N 154.2W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0021.0N 155.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 06:0021.8N 157.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 12:0022.3N 159.4W25 kt1011 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific 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.