The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Debby (2018)

Tropical Storm Debby peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 2, 2018 and August 10, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Debby, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
August 2, 2018 to August 10, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 663 km (412 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
27 kt (31 mph)
Identifier
AL042018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 2, 18:0041.2N 33.7W30 kt1012 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 00:0040.8N 35.5W35 kt1011 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 06:0040.4N 37.2W35 kt1011 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 12:0039.9N 38.9W35 kt1011 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 18:0039.2N 40.5W35 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 4, 00:0038.6N 42.2W35 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 4, 06:0037.8N 44.0W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 4, 12:0036.7N 45.1W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 4, 18:0035.7N 46.0W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 5, 00:0034.8N 47.2W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 5, 06:0033.9N 48.4W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 5, 12:0032.9N 49.2W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 5, 18:0032.2N 49.8W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 6, 00:0031.7N 50.3W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 6, 06:0031.3N 50.0W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 6, 12:0031.9N 49.5W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 6, 18:0032.6N 48.9W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 7, 00:0033.7N 47.9W30 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 7, 06:0036.0N 47.6W35 kt1008 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0037.9N 48.1W35 kt1008 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0039.0N 49.0W35 kt1008 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0039.7N 49.2W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0040.4N 49.0W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0041.0N 48.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0041.6N 48.1W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0042.4N 47.2W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0043.2N 46.0W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0044.0N 44.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0045.1N 42.0W35 kt1004 mbLow
Aug 10, 00:0045.9N 38.5W35 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 06:0046.5N 34.7W35 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 12:0047.0N 30.8W30 kt1004 mbExtratropical

Other North Atlantic 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.