The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Odalys (2020)

Tropical Storm Odalys peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between November 3, 2020 and November 7, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Odalys, 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
November 3, 2020 to November 7, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1181 km (734 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
130 nmi (241 km, 150 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size
210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP202020

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
Nov 3, 18:0013.7N 115.5W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0014.4N 116.7W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 06:0015.2N 118.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0016.2N 119.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0017.2N 120.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:0017.7N 121.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:0018.0N 121.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0018.3N 122.5W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0018.6N 123.2W35 kt1002 mbLow
Nov 6, 00:0018.6N 124.0W30 kt1005 mbLow
Nov 6, 06:0018.5N 124.7W30 kt1005 mbLow
Nov 6, 12:0018.1N 125.4W30 kt1006 mbLow
Nov 6, 18:0017.6N 126.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 7, 00:0017.0N 126.3W25 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 7, 06:0016.4N 126.7W25 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 7, 12:0016.0N 127.2W25 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 7, 18:0015.6N 127.7W20 kt1009 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.