Tropical Storm Chantal (2019)
Tropical Storm Chantal peaked at 35 kt in the North Atlantic between August 20, 2019 and August 26, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 1007 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Chantal, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- August 20, 2019 to August 26, 2019
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1007 mb (29.74 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 570 km (354 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.5
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
- Overall size
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 20 kt (23 mph)
- Identifier
- AL042019
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 18:00 | 40.1N 59.7W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 21, 00:00 | 40.3N 57.1W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 21, 06:00 | 40.3N 54.8W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 21, 12:00 | 40.1N 52.5W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 21, 18:00 | 39.9N 50.3W | 35 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 22, 00:00 | 39.6N 48.3W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 22, 06:00 | 39.3N 46.3W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 22, 12:00 | 38.9N 44.4W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 22, 18:00 | 38.5N 42.9W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 00:00 | 38.0N 41.8W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 06:00 | 37.5N 41.2W | 25 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 12:00 | 36.9N 40.9W | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 18:00 | 36.3N 40.8W | 25 kt | 1012 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 00:00 | 35.7N 40.9W | 25 kt | 1013 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 06:00 | 35.3N 41.2W | 25 kt | 1013 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 12:00 | 35.1N 41.8W | 25 kt | 1013 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 18:00 | 35.0N 42.5W | 25 kt | 1013 mb | Low |
| Aug 25, 00:00 | 35.1N 43.2W | 20 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
| Aug 25, 06:00 | 35.5N 43.6W | 20 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
| Aug 25, 12:00 | 35.9N 43.9W | 20 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
| Aug 25, 18:00 | 36.1N 44.1W | 15 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
| Aug 26, 00:00 | 36.2N 44.4W | 15 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
| Aug 26, 06:00 | 36.2N 44.8W | 15 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
| Aug 26, 12:00 | 36.4N 45.0W | 15 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
| Aug 26, 18:00 | 36.5N 44.8W | 15 kt | 1014 mb | Low |
Other North Atlantic storms of 2019
- Tropical Storm AndreaNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Hurricane BarryNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Hurricane DorianNorth Atlantic · 2019 · 84 deaths · $7.0 billion
- Tropical Storm ErinNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm GabrielleNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm FernandNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Hurricane HumbertoNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Hurricane JerryNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm ImeldaNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm KarenNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Hurricane LorenzoNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm MelissaNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm NestorNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Hurricane PabloNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm OlgaNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Hurricane RebekahNorth Atlantic · 2019
- Tropical Storm SebastienNorth Atlantic · 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.