The 2013 season

Tropical Storm Juliette (2013)

Tropical Storm Juliette peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 28, 2013 and August 30, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Juliette, 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
August 28, 2013 to August 30, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
23 kt (26 mph)
Identifier
EP102013

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Aug 29, 09:00Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 70 km away24.4N 111.7W55 kt (63 mph)997 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
Aug 28, 12:0019.3N 106.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0020.9N 108.1W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0022.3N 109.5W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0023.8N 111.0W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 09:00 landfall24.4N 111.7W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0025.0N 112.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0025.7N 113.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0026.4N 114.3W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 30, 06:0027.0N 115.2W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 30, 12:0027.4N 116.3W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 30, 18:0027.8N 117.5W25 kt1010 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.