The 2015 season

Tropical Storm Grace (2015)

Tropical Storm Grace peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between September 5, 2015 and September 9, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Grace, 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.

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The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
September 5, 2015 to September 9, 2015
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 677 km (421 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
AL072015

Deaths and damage

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

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 702 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 10.81 inches (275 mm).

StationTotalPosition
Jensen Beach 2.2 NW10.81 in (275 mm)27.25N 80.26W
Stuart 3.7 SW8.65 in (220 mm)27.13N 80.21W
Hobe Sound 3.9 NW8.49 in (216 mm)27.11N 80.18W
Hedges 0.3 ESE8.44 in (214 mm)30.60N 81.59W
FERNANDINA BEACH7.95 in (202 mm)30.66N 81.46W
Palm City 3.1 NW7.61 in (193 mm)27.20N 80.30W
Port St. Lucie 4.0 NE7.39 in (188 mm)27.32N 80.31W
Vero Beach South 3.4 SSW7.38 in (187 mm)27.57N 80.44W
WEST KENDALL/TAMIAMI AP7.13 in (181 mm)25.65N 80.43W
Fernandina Beach 0.6 S7.12 in (181 mm)30.65N 81.45W
Sawgrass 2.1 S7.11 in (181 mm)30.16N 81.37W
STUART 4 E7.02 in (178 mm)27.20N 80.16W

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 5, 06:0012.0N 23.1W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 12:0012.2N 24.4W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 18:0012.3N 25.7W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0012.4N 26.9W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0012.5N 28.0W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0012.7N 29.2W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0012.9N 30.5W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0013.2N 31.9W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0013.5N 33.4W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0013.7N 35.0W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0013.8N 36.7W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0013.9N 38.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0014.0N 40.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0014.0N 41.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 18:0014.0N 43.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 00:0014.0N 44.9W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 06:0014.0N 46.4W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 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.