The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Iselle (2020)

Tropical Storm Iselle peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 25, 2020 and August 31, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Iselle, 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
August 25, 2020 to August 31, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 100 km (62 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
60 kt (69 mph)
Fastest the center moved
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
EP142020

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
Aug 25, 18:0015.0N 117.5W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 26, 00:0015.1N 117.4W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 26, 06:0015.2N 117.3W30 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 26, 12:0015.3N 117.1W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 18:0015.5N 116.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0015.8N 116.5W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0016.3N 116.2W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0016.7N 116.0W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0017.1N 115.8W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0017.4N 115.7W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0017.7N 115.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0018.1N 115.5W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0018.5N 115.4W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0019.0N 115.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0019.5N 115.0W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0020.0N 114.8W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0020.6N 114.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0021.4N 114.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0022.1N 113.8W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 12:0022.7N 113.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 18:0023.4N 113.3W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 31, 00:0024.0N 113.3W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 31, 06:0024.5N 113.2W15 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 31, 12:0024.8N 113.2W15 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.