Hurricane Marie (2020)

Hurricane Marie reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 27, 2020 and October 10, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Marie, 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: September 27, 2020 to October 10, 2020
Peak strength: Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure: 945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 556 km (345 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 18.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 130 nmi (241 km, 150 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 420 nmi (778 km, 483 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 140 kt (161 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier: EP182020

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
Sep 27, 12:00	12.4N 103.4W	20 kt	1009 mb	Low
Sep 27, 18:00	12.5N 103.7W	20 kt	1009 mb	Low
Sep 28, 00:00	12.7N 104.0W	20 kt	1008 mb	Low
Sep 28, 06:00	13.1N 104.3W	20 kt	1008 mb	Low
Sep 28, 12:00	13.4N 104.7W	20 kt	1007 mb	Low
Sep 28, 18:00	13.5N 105.2W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
Sep 29, 00:00	13.5N 106.0W	25 kt	1006 mb	Low
Sep 29, 06:00	13.5N 107.0W	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 29, 12:00	13.5N 108.0W	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 29, 18:00	13.6N 109.0W	35 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 30, 00:00	13.8N 110.3W	40 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 30, 06:00	14.0N 111.7W	45 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 30, 12:00	14.1N 113.1W	50 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 30, 18:00	14.2N 114.6W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 1, 00:00	14.4N 116.1W	65 kt	988 mb	Hurricane
Oct 1, 06:00	14.6N 117.6W	75 kt	984 mb	Hurricane
Oct 1, 12:00	14.8N 119.0W	85 kt	977 mb	Hurricane
Oct 1, 18:00	15.0N 120.3W	95 kt	969 mb	Hurricane
Oct 2, 00:00	15.4N 121.5W	105 kt	961 mb	Hurricane
Oct 2, 06:00	15.9N 122.6W	120 kt	945 mb	Hurricane
Oct 2, 12:00	16.3N 123.8W	120 kt	945 mb	Hurricane
Oct 2, 18:00	16.7N 124.6W	115 kt	948 mb	Hurricane
Oct 3, 00:00	17.2N 125.4W	115 kt	948 mb	Hurricane
Oct 3, 06:00	17.6N 126.1W	115 kt	948 mb	Hurricane
Oct 3, 12:00	18.1N 126.7W	110 kt	952 mb	Hurricane
Oct 3, 18:00	18.6N 127.2W	105 kt	955 mb	Hurricane
Oct 4, 00:00	19.0N 127.6W	100 kt	960 mb	Hurricane
Oct 4, 06:00	19.5N 128.0W	90 kt	967 mb	Hurricane
Oct 4, 12:00	19.8N 128.5W	80 kt	975 mb	Hurricane
Oct 4, 18:00	20.1N 129.2W	70 kt	981 mb	Hurricane
Oct 5, 00:00	20.4N 129.9W	60 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 5, 06:00	20.6N 130.7W	55 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 5, 12:00	20.8N 131.5W	50 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 5, 18:00	21.0N 132.3W	45 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 6, 00:00	21.2N 133.1W	45 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 6, 06:00	21.5N 133.9W	45 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 6, 12:00	21.9N 134.7W	40 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 6, 18:00	22.2N 135.4W	35 kt	1005 mb	Low
Oct 7, 00:00	22.3N 136.0W	35 kt	1005 mb	Low
Oct 7, 06:00	22.5N 136.5W	35 kt	1005 mb	Low
Oct 7, 12:00	23.0N 136.6W	40 kt	1004 mb	Low
Oct 7, 18:00	23.5N 136.6W	45 kt	1003 mb	Low
Oct 8, 00:00	24.0N 136.5W	40 kt	1004 mb	Low
Oct 8, 06:00	24.5N 136.6W	35 kt	1005 mb	Low
Oct 8, 12:00	24.7N 137.1W	30 kt	1007 mb	Low
Oct 8, 18:00	24.7N 137.6W	25 kt	1008 mb	Low
Oct 9, 00:00	24.7N 138.1W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low
Oct 9, 06:00	24.7N 138.7W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low
Oct 9, 12:00	24.4N 139.2W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low
Oct 9, 18:00	24.1N 139.6W	25 kt	1009 mb	Low
Oct 10, 00:00	24.0N 140.3W	20 kt	1009 mb	Low

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.