The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Cristina (2020)

Tropical Storm Cristina peaked at 60 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 6, 2020 and July 15, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cristina, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 6, 2020 to July 15, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 538 km (334 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP052020

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

National Hurricane Center

0 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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 6, 18:0010.4N 99.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 7, 00:0010.8N 100.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 7, 06:0011.4N 101.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 12:0012.0N 102.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 18:0012.7N 103.3W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:0013.3N 104.5W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0013.8N 105.7W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0014.4N 106.7W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0015.1N 107.7W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0015.8N 108.4W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0016.5N 109.1W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0017.1N 109.8W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0017.5N 110.5W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0018.1N 111.4W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0018.5N 112.4W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 12:0019.0N 113.6W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0019.4N 114.8W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0019.9N 116.1W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0020.2N 117.6W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0020.3N 119.0W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0020.3N 120.3W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0020.4N 121.6W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0020.5N 122.7W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0020.6N 123.7W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0020.6N 124.8W35 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 13, 00:0020.7N 126.0W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 13, 06:0020.9N 127.1W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 13, 12:0021.0N 128.2W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 13, 18:0021.2N 129.4W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 14, 00:0021.5N 130.6W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 14, 06:0021.8N 132.0W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 14, 12:0022.1N 133.5W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 14, 18:0022.4N 135.0W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 15, 00:0022.7N 136.5W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 15, 06:0023.0N 137.8W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 15, 12:0023.4N 139.0W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 15, 18:0023.8N 140.0W25 kt1010 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 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.