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.
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).
| Station | Total | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Jensen Beach 2.2 NW | 10.81 in (275 mm) | 27.25N 80.26W |
| Stuart 3.7 SW | 8.65 in (220 mm) | 27.13N 80.21W |
| Hobe Sound 3.9 NW | 8.49 in (216 mm) | 27.11N 80.18W |
| Hedges 0.3 ESE | 8.44 in (214 mm) | 30.60N 81.59W |
| FERNANDINA BEACH | 7.95 in (202 mm) | 30.66N 81.46W |
| Palm City 3.1 NW | 7.61 in (193 mm) | 27.20N 80.30W |
| Port St. Lucie 4.0 NE | 7.39 in (188 mm) | 27.32N 80.31W |
| Vero Beach South 3.4 SSW | 7.38 in (187 mm) | 27.57N 80.44W |
| WEST KENDALL/TAMIAMI AP | 7.13 in (181 mm) | 25.65N 80.43W |
| Fernandina Beach 0.6 S | 7.12 in (181 mm) | 30.65N 81.45W |
| Sawgrass 2.1 S | 7.11 in (181 mm) | 30.16N 81.37W |
| STUART 4 E | 7.02 in (178 mm) | 27.20N 80.16W |
WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 06:00 | 12.0N 23.1W | 25 kt | 1010 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 5, 12:00 | 12.2N 24.4W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 5, 18:00 | 12.3N 25.7W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 6, 00:00 | 12.4N 26.9W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 6, 06:00 | 12.5N 28.0W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 6, 12:00 | 12.7N 29.2W | 50 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 6, 18:00 | 12.9N 30.5W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 7, 00:00 | 13.2N 31.9W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 7, 06:00 | 13.5N 33.4W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 7, 12:00 | 13.7N 35.0W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 7, 18:00 | 13.8N 36.7W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 8, 00:00 | 13.9N 38.4W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 8, 06:00 | 14.0N 40.1W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 8, 12:00 | 14.0N 41.8W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 8, 18:00 | 14.0N 43.4W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 9, 00:00 | 14.0N 44.9W | 25 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 9, 06:00 | 14.0N 46.4W | 25 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2015
- Tropical Storm AnaNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm BillNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm ClaudetteNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Hurricane DannyNorth Atlantic · 2015
- Tropical Storm ErikaNorth Atlantic · 2015 · 25 deaths
- Hurricane FredNorth 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.