The 2017 season

Tropical Storm Jova (2017)

Tropical Storm Jova peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 11, 2017 and August 17, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 11, 2017 to August 17, 2017
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 199 km (124 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP122017

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 11, 12:0018.5N 106.7W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 18:0018.8N 108.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0019.1N 109.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0019.6N 110.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0020.0N 111.3W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0020.2N 112.4W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 00:0020.4N 113.7W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 06:0020.4N 115.1W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 12:0020.4N 116.6W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 18:0020.4N 118.0W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 14, 00:0020.4N 119.3W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 14, 06:0020.4N 120.5W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 14, 12:0020.3N 121.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 14, 18:0020.3N 122.7W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 15, 00:0020.2N 123.8W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 15, 06:0020.0N 125.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 15, 12:0019.8N 126.1W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 15, 18:0019.6N 127.3W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 16, 00:0019.4N 128.4W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 16, 06:0019.2N 129.5W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 16, 12:0019.0N 130.6W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 16, 18:0018.8N 131.7W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 17, 00:0018.6N 132.7W20 kt1008 mbLow

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.