The 2015 season

Hurricane Marty (2015)

Hurricane Marty reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between September 26, 2015 and September 30, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 987 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Marty, 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 26, 2015 to September 30, 2015
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
987 mb (29.15 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 119 km (74 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
85 kt (98 mph)
Fastest the center moved
7 kt (8 mph)
Identifier
EP172015

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 26, 12:0012.7N 102.8W25 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 26, 18:0013.1N 103.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 27, 00:0013.6N 103.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0014.1N 103.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0014.6N 103.1W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0015.0N 103.1W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0015.4N 103.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0015.8N 103.2W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0016.3N 103.0W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 18:0016.6N 102.4W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 00:0016.5N 102.1W65 kt988 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 06:0016.3N 101.9W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0016.2N 101.6W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0016.2N 101.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0016.1N 101.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0016.1N 101.7W35 kt1003 mbLow
Sep 30, 12:0016.2N 102.2W30 kt1004 mbLow
Sep 30, 18:0016.4N 102.7W30 kt1005 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.