The 2020 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2020)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Atlantic between July 29, 2020 and August 2, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1008 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
July 29, 2020 to August 2, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1008 mb (29.77 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 205 km (127 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
40 kt (46 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
AL102020

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
Jul 29, 18:0012.7N 19.7W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 30, 00:0012.7N 20.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 30, 06:0012.8N 20.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 30, 12:0013.0N 20.4W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 30, 18:0013.1N 20.2W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 31, 00:0013.2N 20.0W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 31, 06:0013.7N 19.7W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 31, 12:0014.5N 19.4W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 31, 18:0015.5N 19.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 00:0016.5N 20.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 06:0017.4N 21.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 12:0018.3N 21.8W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 18:0019.0N 23.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 00:0019.4N 24.4W20 kt1010 mbLow

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.