The 2020 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2020)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 12, 2020 and August 17, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1004 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
August 12, 2020 to August 17, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 2037 km (1266 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 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
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
EP102020

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
Aug 12, 18:0013.1N 127.1W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 13, 00:0013.3N 127.9W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 13, 06:0013.5N 128.8W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 12:0013.7N 129.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 18:0014.0N 130.3W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 00:0014.1N 130.9W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 06:0014.0N 131.4W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 12:0013.8N 131.9W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 18:0013.6N 132.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 00:0013.4N 133.0W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 06:0013.3N 133.3W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 12:0013.2N 133.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 15, 18:0013.1N 133.7W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 00:0013.1N 133.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 06:0013.3N 133.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 12:0013.6N 133.9W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 16, 18:0014.1N 134.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 17, 00:0014.5N 134.1W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 17, 06:0014.8N 134.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 17, 12:0014.9N 135.4W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 17, 18:0015.0N 136.2W20 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.