The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Nadine (2018)

Tropical Storm Nadine peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between October 8, 2018 and October 12, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nadine, 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
October 8, 2018 to October 12, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1136 km (706 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
65 kt (75 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
AL152018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 8, 12:009.3N 26.7W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 8, 18:009.5N 27.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 9, 00:009.8N 28.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 9, 06:0010.1N 29.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 12:0010.4N 29.6W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0010.8N 30.2W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0011.2N 30.7W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0011.8N 30.9W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0012.3N 31.4W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0012.8N 32.0W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0013.3N 32.5W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0013.6N 33.1W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0013.9N 33.8W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0014.3N 34.6W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0014.8N 35.0W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0015.3N 35.3W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0015.8N 35.7W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0016.2N 37.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression

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.