Tropical Storm Claudette (2015)
Tropical Storm Claudette peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between July 12, 2015 and July 15, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Claudette, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2015 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- July 12, 2015 to July 15, 2015
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 35 km (22 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.1
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
- Overall size
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 21 kt (24 mph)
- Identifier
- AL032015
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 00:00 | 35.4N 75.4W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
| Jul 12, 06:00 | 35.3N 74.6W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
| Jul 12, 12:00 | 35.2N 73.6W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
| Jul 12, 18:00 | 35.3N 72.8W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
| Jul 13, 00:00 | 35.5N 72.2W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Low |
| Jul 13, 06:00 | 36.0N 71.1W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 13, 12:00 | 36.8N 69.4W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 13, 18:00 | 37.6N 67.5W | 45 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 00:00 | 38.4N 65.7W | 45 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 06:00 | 39.4N 64.1W | 45 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 12:00 | 40.7N 62.0W | 45 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 18:00 | 42.0N 60.0W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 15, 00:00 | 43.5N 58.2W | 35 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
| Jul 15, 06:00 | 45.0N 56.9W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
| Jul 15, 12:00 | 46.0N 55.9W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2015
- Tropical Storm AnaNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm BillNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Hurricane DannyNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm ErikaNorth Atlantic · 2015 · 25 deaths
- Hurricane FredNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm GraceNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm HenriNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm IdaNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Hurricane JoaquinNorth Atlantic · 2015 · 34 deaths · $200 million
- Hurricane KateNorth Atlantic · 2015
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.