The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Joyce (2018)

Tropical Storm Joyce peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between September 12, 2018 and September 21, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Joyce, 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
September 12, 2018 to September 21, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1077 km (669 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
AL102018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 12, 00:0037.0N 39.8W45 kt1012 mbExtratropical
Sep 12, 06:0036.6N 40.7W45 kt1011 mbExtratropical
Sep 12, 12:0035.8N 41.5W40 kt1010 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0034.8N 41.9W40 kt1008 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0034.3N 42.4W40 kt1006 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0034.0N 42.9W40 kt1005 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0033.9N 43.4W35 kt1004 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0033.6N 43.9W35 kt1003 mbSubtropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0033.1N 44.4W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0032.5N 44.8W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0031.8N 44.9W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0031.5N 44.5W40 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0031.4N 43.9W45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0031.5N 42.8W45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0031.9N 41.6W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0032.5N 40.3W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0033.2N 38.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0033.8N 37.1W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0034.3N 35.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 18:0034.4N 33.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 00:0034.3N 31.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 06:0034.2N 30.1W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 12:0034.1N 28.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 18:0033.9N 28.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0033.5N 27.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0032.8N 27.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0032.0N 27.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0031.1N 27.5W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0030.4N 27.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 19, 06:0030.0N 28.5W20 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 19, 12:0029.9N 29.2W20 kt1011 mbLow
Sep 19, 18:0029.9N 29.9W20 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 20, 00:0029.8N 30.6W20 kt1013 mbLow
Sep 20, 06:0029.6N 31.4W20 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 20, 12:0029.5N 32.3W20 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 20, 18:0029.6N 33.2W20 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 21, 00:0029.7N 34.0W20 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 21, 06:0030.1N 34.7W20 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 21, 12:0030.8N 35.0W20 kt1014 mbLow

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.