The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Carlotta (2018)

Tropical Storm Carlotta peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 14, 2018 and June 19, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Carlotta, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2018 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
June 14, 2018 to June 19, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 22 km (14 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
65 kt (75 mph)
Fastest the center moved
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
EP042018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 14, 18:0014.9N 100.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 00:0015.1N 100.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 06:0015.4N 99.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 12:0015.6N 99.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 18:0015.8N 99.6W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 00:0015.9N 99.4W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0015.9N 99.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0015.9N 99.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 18:0016.0N 99.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0016.4N 99.5W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0016.6N 100.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0016.8N 101.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0017.0N 101.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 00:0017.2N 102.2W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 06:0017.4N 102.6W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 12:0017.7N 103.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 18:0018.0N 103.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 19, 00:0018.1N 103.5W20 kt1008 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2018

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.