The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Rene (2020)

Tropical Storm Rene peaked at 40 kt in the North Atlantic between September 6, 2020 and September 14, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1001 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Rene, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
September 6, 2020 to September 14, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 65 km (40 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
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 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
AL182020

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
Sep 6, 18:0014.6N 18.1W25 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 7, 00:0014.8N 19.0W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 7, 06:0015.2N 19.8W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 12:0015.6N 20.7W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 18:0015.9N 21.8W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0016.1N 22.9W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0016.3N 24.2W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0016.4N 25.7W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0016.6N 27.1W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 00:0016.8N 28.6W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 06:0017.1N 30.0W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 12:0017.3N 31.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0017.6N 32.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0017.9N 33.5W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0018.1N 34.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0018.4N 35.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0018.8N 36.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0019.1N 37.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0019.5N 38.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0019.9N 39.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0020.4N 40.6W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0021.1N 41.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0021.9N 42.9W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0022.8N 44.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 18:0023.7N 45.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 00:0024.7N 46.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 06:0025.8N 46.9W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 12:0026.7N 47.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 18:0027.4N 47.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0027.5N 47.8W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 06:0027.6N 48.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 12:0027.5N 48.4W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic 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.