Tropical Storm Pilar (2017)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

September 22, 2017 to September 25, 2017

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)

Lowest pressure

1000 mb (29.53 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 52 km (32 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

1.1

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)

Overall size

120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

50 kt (58 mph)

Fastest the center moved

10 kt (12 mph)

Identifier

EP182017

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled May 2026.

Deaths

0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

$20,000

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

9 in 2 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

5 flood, 4 flash flood.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding requiring several people to be rescued from an oil field site and closing many ranch roads around Catarina.

Dimmit, Texas · Flash Flood · Sep 26, 13:00 UTC

Zapata County EM and US Customs and Border Protection reported high water out of the normal banks but within the berm area in and around San Ygnacio mainly on September 28th as a flood wave pushed south from Laredo toward Falcon International Reservoir. The high waters damaged U.S. Border Patrol equipment, including at least one generator, two light poles and one or two submerged vehicles. However, higher ground in San Ygnacio proper and above the river area was not impacted. Visual evidence showed the high water surrounding the equipment during the morning through afternoon hours, though high waters likely continued through the 29th.

Zapata, Texas · Flood · Sep 28, 09:00 UTC

• Tropical Storm AdrianEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm40 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm BeatrizEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm40 kt · 1001 mb
• Tropical Storm CalvinEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm40 kt · 1004 mb
• Hurricane DoraEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 290 kt · 974 mb
• Hurricane EugeneEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 3100 kt · 966 mb
• Hurricane FernandaEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 4125 kt · 948 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Depression30 kt · 1007 mb
• Tropical Storm GregEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm50 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane HilaryEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 295 kt · 969 mb
• Hurricane IrwinEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 180 kt · 979 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb
• Tropical Storm JovaEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm35 kt · 1003 mb
• Hurricane KennethEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 4115 kt · 951 mb
• Tropical Storm LidiaEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm55 kt · 986 mb
• Hurricane OtisEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 3100 kt · 965 mb
• Hurricane MaxEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 180 kt · 980 mb
• Hurricane NormaEastern Pacific · 2017Cat 165 kt · 985 mb
• Tropical Storm RamonEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm40 kt · 1002 mb
• Tropical Storm SelmaEastern Pacific · 2017Tropical Storm35 kt · 1004 mb

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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Best track as a shapefile, National Hurricane Center