Tropical Storm Norbert (2020)
Tropical Storm Norbert peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 4, 2020 and October 15, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Norbert, 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
- October 4, 2020 to October 15, 2020
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 220 km (137 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 2.0
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
- Overall size
- 100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 16 kt (18 mph)
- Identifier
- EP192020
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 18:00 | 11.1N 104.2W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Oct 5, 00:00 | 11.2N 104.6W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Oct 5, 06:00 | 11.4N 105.0W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 5, 12:00 | 11.9N 105.2W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 5, 18:00 | 12.5N 105.3W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 00:00 | 13.2N 105.6W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 06:00 | 13.6N 106.1W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 12:00 | 13.9N 106.4W | 50 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 6, 18:00 | 14.3N 106.6W | 45 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 00:00 | 14.2N 106.9W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 06:00 | 14.0N 107.1W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 12:00 | 13.8N 107.0W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 7, 18:00 | 13.5N 107.0W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 00:00 | 13.3N 106.8W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 8, 06:00 | 13.2N 106.4W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 8, 12:00 | 13.2N 106.2W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 8, 18:00 | 13.1N 106.1W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 9, 00:00 | 13.0N 106.0W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 9, 06:00 | 13.1N 105.9W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 9, 12:00 | 13.3N 106.0W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 9, 18:00 | 13.4N 106.2W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 10, 00:00 | 13.5N 106.4W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 10, 06:00 | 13.7N 106.5W | 25 kt | 1009 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 10, 12:00 | 14.1N 106.5W | 20 kt | 1009 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 10, 18:00 | 14.7N 106.3W | 20 kt | 1009 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 11, 00:00 | 15.3N 106.3W | 20 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 16.0N 106.6W | 20 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 16.7N 107.0W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 11, 18:00 | 17.2N 107.5W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 12, 00:00 | 17.3N 107.9W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 12, 06:00 | 17.3N 108.1W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 12, 12:00 | 17.4N 108.4W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 12, 18:00 | 17.5N 108.8W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 13, 00:00 | 17.7N 109.3W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 13, 06:00 | 17.9N 109.8W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 13, 12:00 | 18.3N 110.4W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 13, 18:00 | 19.3N 111.3W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 14, 00:00 | 20.5N 112.2W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 06:00 | 21.8N 113.1W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 12:00 | 23.1N 114.0W | 40 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 18:00 | 24.3N 114.8W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 15, 00:00 | 25.0N 115.3W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Oct 15, 06:00 | 25.6N 115.7W | 20 kt | 1011 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
- Tropical Storm FaustoEastern 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 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.