The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Ema (2019)

Tropical Storm Ema peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 11, 2019 and October 16, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Ema, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
October 11, 2019 to October 16, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 437 km (272 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
CP012019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 11, 12:0015.4N 161.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 11, 18:0016.6N 162.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 12, 00:0017.6N 162.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 12, 06:0018.6N 163.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 12:0019.6N 163.3W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0020.5N 163.7W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0021.4N 164.1W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0021.9N 165.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0022.1N 165.9W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0022.5N 166.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 00:0023.3N 167.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 06:0024.7N 168.0W30 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 14, 12:0026.1N 168.3W30 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 14, 18:0027.5N 168.2W25 kt1011 mbLow
Oct 15, 00:0028.5N 168.3W25 kt1013 mbLow
Oct 15, 06:0029.0N 168.2W25 kt1015 mbLow
Oct 15, 12:0029.1N 168.6W25 kt1017 mbLow
Oct 15, 18:0029.4N 168.9W25 kt1017 mbLow
Oct 16, 00:0029.3N 169.3W25 kt1017 mbLow
Oct 16, 06:0028.9N 170.0W15 kt1018 mbDisturbance

Other Eastern 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.