Tropical Storm Penny (2019)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

December 28, 2018 to January 9, 2019

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Lowest pressure

987 mb (29.15 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

5.5

Identifier

SH082019

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

• Tropical Storm LiuaSouth Pacific · 2019Tropical Storm45 kt · 989 mb
• Cyclone OwenSouth Pacific · 2019Cat 285 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm MonaSouth Pacific · 2019Tropical Storm50 kt · 989 mb
• Tropical Storm NeilSouth Pacific · 2019Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Cyclone OmaSouth Pacific · 2019Cat 175 kt · 968 mb
• Cyclone PolaSouth Pacific · 2019Cat 3100 kt · 948 mb
• Cyclone TrevorSouth Pacific · 2019Cat 3110 kt · 948 mb
• Tropical Storm AnnSouth Pacific · 2019Tropical Storm60 kt · 989 mb

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.

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.