Tropical Storm Fausto (2020)
Tropical Storm Fausto peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 16, 2020 and August 18, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Fausto, 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
- August 16, 2020 to August 18, 2020
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 870 km (541 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.1
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
- Overall size
- 200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 17 kt (20 mph)
- Identifier
- EP112020
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) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 00:00 | 18.0N 118.2W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 16, 06:00 | 19.2N 118.4W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 16, 12:00 | 20.4N 119.3W | 35 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 16, 18:00 | 21.7N 120.5W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 17, 00:00 | 22.4N 122.0W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 17, 06:00 | 22.9N 123.6W | 25 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 17, 12:00 | 23.3N 125.3W | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Aug 17, 18:00 | 23.3N 126.3W | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Aug 18, 00:00 | 23.3N 127.2W | 20 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm AmandaEastern Pacific · 2020 · 40 deaths
- 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
- 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.