The 2014 season

Tropical Storm Fausto (2014)

Tropical Storm Fausto peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 6, 2014 and July 9, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Fausto, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2014 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 6, 2014 to July 9, 2014
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1287 km (800 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
EP062014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 6, 06:0010.8N 113.0W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 6, 12:0010.7N 114.0W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 6, 18:0010.5N 115.1W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 7, 00:0010.1N 116.1W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 7, 06:009.7N 117.1W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 7, 12:009.5N 118.1W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 7, 18:009.4N 119.2W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:009.4N 120.3W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:009.4N 121.5W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:009.6N 122.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0010.0N 124.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0010.6N 125.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 06:0011.3N 127.0W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2014

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.