The 2015 season

Tropical Storm Nora (2015)

Tropical Storm Nora peaked at 60 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 9, 2015 and October 15, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nora, 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
October 9, 2015 to October 15, 2015
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 387 km (240 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
280 nmi (519 km, 322 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP182015

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 9, 06:0010.6N 130.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 9, 12:0010.8N 131.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 18:0010.9N 133.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 00:0011.1N 134.5W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0011.2N 135.8W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0011.3N 137.0W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0011.5N 138.2W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0011.6N 139.4W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0011.9N 140.8W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0012.1N 141.8W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0012.2N 142.7W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0012.3N 143.5W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0012.4N 144.3W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0012.5N 145.2W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0012.7N 146.2W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0013.1N 147.2W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0013.5N 147.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0013.9N 148.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0014.3N 149.2W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0014.7N 149.9W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0014.8N 150.4W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 12:0014.8N 150.8W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 18:0015.0N 151.0W25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 00:0015.3N 151.3W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 06:0015.9N 151.7W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 12:0016.4N 152.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 18:0016.6N 152.7W25 kt1010 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.