The 2020 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2020)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between April 25, 2020 and April 27, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1006 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
April 25, 2020 to April 27, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1195 km (743 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
40 kt (46 mph)
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP012020

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
Apr 25, 06:0013.5N 115.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Apr 25, 12:0013.8N 116.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Apr 25, 18:0014.2N 116.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Apr 26, 00:0014.6N 117.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Apr 26, 06:0015.0N 117.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Apr 26, 12:0015.5N 118.5W25 kt1007 mbLow
Apr 26, 18:0016.0N 119.1W25 kt1007 mbLow
Apr 27, 00:0016.4N 119.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Apr 27, 06:0016.6N 120.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Apr 27, 12:0016.8N 121.8W25 kt1010 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.