The 2015 season

Tropical Storm Malia (2015)

Tropical Storm Malia peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 17, 2015 and September 23, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Malia, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 17, 2015 to September 23, 2015
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1233 km (766 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
CP052015

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 17, 06:0011.9N 173.4W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 17, 12:0012.9N 174.3W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 17, 18:0013.9N 175.2W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 18, 00:0014.7N 175.8W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 18, 06:0015.5N 176.3W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 18, 12:0016.4N 176.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Sep 18, 18:0017.2N 176.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0017.7N 175.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 06:0018.0N 175.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 12:0018.3N 174.7W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 18:0018.7N 174.4W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 00:0019.2N 174.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 06:0019.7N 173.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 12:0020.5N 173.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 18:0021.8N 173.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 00:0023.1N 172.5W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0024.1N 171.8W40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0025.2N 171.4W45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0026.4N 171.3W40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0027.1N 172.0W40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0027.5N 172.4W35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0028.2N 173.0W35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0029.3N 173.3W35 kt996 mbLow
Sep 23, 00:0030.8N 173.5W35 kt996 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific 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.

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