The 2013 season

Tropical Storm Unala (2013)

Tropical Storm Unala peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 12, 2013 and August 19, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Unala, 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 12, 2013 to August 19, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 716 km (445 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
CP022013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 12, 06:0012.0N 139.6W20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 12, 12:0012.0N 140.6W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 12, 18:0011.8N 141.8W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 00:0011.5N 142.9W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 06:0011.0N 143.8W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 12:0011.0N 145.5W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 18:0011.0N 147.2W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 00:0011.2N 148.9W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 06:0011.3N 150.7W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 12:0011.7N 152.5W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 14, 18:0012.3N 154.0W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 15, 00:0012.5N 155.9W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 15, 06:0012.5N 157.5W30 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 15, 12:0012.3N 159.1W30 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 15, 18:0012.3N 160.6W30 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 16, 00:0012.5N 162.1W30 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 16, 06:0012.6N 163.8W30 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 16, 12:0012.7N 165.6W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 16, 18:0013.0N 166.9W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 00:0013.4N 168.1W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 06:0013.6N 169.2W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 12:0014.0N 170.4W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 18:0014.4N 171.7W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 18, 00:0014.9N 172.9W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 18, 06:0015.4N 174.0W30 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 18, 12:0015.9N 175.0W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 18, 18:0016.5N 176.2W30 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 00:0017.0N 177.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0017.3N 179.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 19, 12:0017.5N 179.1E1004 mbTropical storm

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.