The 2015 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2015)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 20, 2015 and September 21, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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 20, 2015 to September 21, 2015
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
EP162015

Deaths and damage

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

Landfalls

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Sep 21, 04:45Coast unnamed here26.6N 113.1W30 kt (35 mph)1001 mb
Sep 21, 13:45Miguel Alemán (La Doce), Sonora, Mexico, 80 km away28.8N 112.3W30 kt (35 mph)1002 mb
Sep 21, 15:00Miguel Alemán (La Doce), Sonora, Mexico, 81 km away29.2N 112.2W30 kt (35 mph)1003 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 20, 18:0024.3N 113.7W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 00:0025.5N 113.4W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 04:45 landfall26.6N 113.1W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 06:0026.8N 113.0W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 12:0028.3N 112.5W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 13:45 landfall28.8N 112.3W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 15:00 landfall29.2N 112.2W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression

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.