The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Ann (2019)

Tropical Storm Ann peaked at 60 kt in the South Pacific between May 9, 2019 and May 18, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Ann, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2019 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
South Pacific
Dates
May 9, 2019 to May 18, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.8
Identifier
SH272019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
May 9, 00:0010.1S 160.2E15 kt1007 mbTropical storm
May 9, 06:0010.8S 160.1E15 kt1006 mbTropical storm
May 9, 12:0011.3S 160.1E15 kt1007 mbTropical storm
May 9, 18:0011.8S 160.0E15 kt1006 mbTropical storm
May 10, 00:0012.2S 159.9E15 kt1007 mbTropical storm
May 10, 06:0013.0S 159.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
May 10, 12:0014.4S 159.4E15 kt1011 mbDisturbance
May 10, 18:0014.9S 159.4E20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
May 11, 00:0015.3S 159.5E25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
May 11, 06:0015.7S 159.7E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
May 11, 12:0016.1S 159.5E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
May 11, 18:0016.3S 159.0E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
May 12, 00:0016.2S 158.4E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
May 12, 06:0016.1S 157.8E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 12, 12:0016.0S 157.0E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 12, 18:0015.9S 155.7E60 kt989 mbTropical storm
May 13, 00:0015.6S 154.2E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 13, 06:0015.4S 152.9E50 kt997 mbTropical storm
May 13, 12:0015.2S 151.4E45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
May 13, 18:0015.0S 150.2E45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
May 14, 00:0014.8S 149.0E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
May 14, 06:0014.5S 147.6E35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
May 14, 12:0013.9S 146.3E30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
May 14, 18:0013.3S 145.1E35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
May 15, 00:0012.8S 143.8E30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
May 15, 06:0012.6S 142.4E25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
May 15, 12:0012.2S 141.0E25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
May 15, 18:0011.8S 139.6E25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
May 16, 00:0011.2S 138.5E25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
May 16, 06:0011.2S 137.4E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
May 16, 12:0010.9S 136.2E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
May 16, 18:0010.3S 135.2E25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
May 17, 00:009.9S 134.0E25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
May 17, 06:009.6S 132.7E20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
May 17, 12:008.8S 131.8E20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
May 17, 18:008.4S 130.8E20 kt1011 mbDisturbance
May 18, 00:007.9S 129.8E15 kt1012 mbDisturbance
May 18, 06:007.4S 129.0E20 kt1009 mbTropical storm
May 18, 12:007.0S 128.1E20 kt1010 mbTropical storm

Other South Pacific storms of 2019

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.