The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Gil (2019)

Tropical Storm Gil peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 2, 2019 and August 6, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Gil, 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
August 2, 2019 to August 6, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1428 km (887 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP082019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 2, 18:0012.9N 118.4W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 3, 00:0013.5N 119.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 3, 06:0014.0N 120.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 12:0014.5N 120.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 18:0014.7N 121.9W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0014.8N 123.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0014.8N 124.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 12:0014.9N 124.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 18:0015.0N 125.8W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 00:0015.2N 126.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 5, 06:0015.4N 127.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 5, 12:0015.5N 128.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 5, 18:0015.5N 129.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 6, 00:0015.5N 130.8W25 kt1010 mbLow

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.