Tropical Storm Amanda (2020)
Tropical Storm Amanda peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between May 30, 2020 and May 31, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb, and made landfall. It killed 40 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Amanda, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2020 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
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- May 30, 2020 to May 31, 2020
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.2
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
- Overall size
- 300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 9 kt (10 mph)
- Identifier
- EP022020
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
40 direct deathsnone recorded in the United States
The season table in NHC’s report archive, final report. Direct deaths are those caused by the storm’s own wind, water or surge, anywhere in the world.
Landfall
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:00 | Guazacapán, Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, 33 km away | 13.8N 90.3W | 35 kt (40 mph) | 1003 mb |
Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 18:00 | 12.2N 90.9W | 25 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 31, 00:00 | 12.7N 90.6W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 31, 06:00 | 13.3N 90.4W | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 31, 10:00 landfall | 13.8N 90.3W | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 31, 12:00 | 14.1N 90.3W | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm BorisEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm CristinaEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 2020
- Hurricane DouglasEastern Pacific · 2020
- Hurricane ElidaEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm FaustoEastern Pacific · 2020
- Hurricane GenevieveEastern Pacific · 2020 · 6 deaths
- Tropical Storm HernanEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm IselleEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm JulioEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm KarinaEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm LowellEastern Pacific · 2020
- Hurricane MarieEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm NorbertEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm OdalysEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm PoloEastern Pacific · 2020
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.