The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Vicente (2018)

Tropical Storm Vicente peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 19, 2018 and October 23, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Vicente, 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
October 19, 2018 to October 23, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP232018

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 23, 13:30La Orilla, Michoacan, Mexico, 18 km away18.0N 102.4W25 kt (29 mph)1008 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 19, 00:0013.0N 91.5W25 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 19, 06:0013.1N 91.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 19, 12:0013.2N 91.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 19, 18:0013.3N 92.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0013.6N 92.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0014.0N 92.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0014.3N 93.3W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0014.5N 94.0W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 00:0014.7N 94.7W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0014.7N 95.5W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0014.5N 96.5W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0014.2N 97.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0014.1N 98.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0014.1N 99.3W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0014.6N 100.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0015.2N 100.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0016.0N 101.3W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0016.8N 101.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0017.8N 102.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 13:30 landfall18.0N 102.4W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression

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.