Cyclone Harold (2020)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

April 1, 2020 to April 11, 2020

Peak strength

Category 5, 145 kt (167 mph)

Lowest pressure

909 mb (26.84 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

31.1

Identifier

SH252020

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

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• Cyclone SaraiSouth Pacific · 2020Cat 175 kt · 971 mb
• Cyclone TinoSouth Pacific · 2020Cat 285 kt · 955 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2020Tropical Storm35 kt · 1000 mb
• Cyclone UesiSouth Pacific · 2020Cat 180 kt · 968 mb
• Tropical Storm VickySouth Pacific · 2020Tropical Storm45 kt · 997 mb
• Tropical Storm WasiSouth Pacific · 2020Tropical Storm60 kt · 993 mb
• Tropical Storm EstherSouth Pacific · 2020Tropical Storm50 kt · 992 mb
• Cyclone GretelSouth Pacific · 2020Cat 165 kt · 971 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 2020Tropical Depression30 kt · 999 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.