The 2017 season

Tropical Storm Beatriz (2017)

Tropical Storm Beatriz peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between May 31, 2017 and June 2, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
May 31, 2017 to June 2, 2017
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi)
Overall size
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
7 kt (8 mph)
Identifier
EP022017

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Jun 2, 00:00Crucecita, Oaxaca, Mexico, 50 km away15.7N 96.6W40 kt (46 mph)1001 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
May 31, 12:0013.8N 97.9W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
May 31, 18:0014.0N 97.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 1, 00:0014.2N 97.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 1, 06:0014.5N 97.3W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 1, 12:0014.8N 97.1W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 1, 18:0015.1N 96.9W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 2, 00:00 landfall15.7N 96.6W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 2, 06:0016.3N 96.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2017

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.