The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Kristy (2018)

Tropical Storm Kristy peaked at 60 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 6, 2018 and August 13, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 991 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Kristy, 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
August 6, 2018 to August 13, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1558 km (968 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
190 nmi (352 km, 219 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP132018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 6, 18:0014.8N 122.6W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 00:0014.6N 123.6W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0014.4N 124.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0014.1N 125.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0014.0N 126.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0014.0N 127.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0014.0N 128.2W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0014.3N 128.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0014.5N 129.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0014.9N 129.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0015.4N 130.1W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0015.9N 130.1W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0016.5N 130.1W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0017.1N 130.0W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0017.8N 129.9W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0018.6N 129.8W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0019.4N 129.9W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0020.2N 130.0W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0020.9N 130.4W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0021.3N 130.8W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0021.7N 131.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 00:0022.0N 131.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 06:0022.3N 132.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 12:0022.4N 132.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 12, 18:0022.4N 132.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 13, 00:0022.4N 133.4W25 kt1009 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.