The 2021 season

Tropical Storm Andres (2021)

Tropical Storm Andres peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between May 8, 2021 and May 12, 2021, with a lowest pressure of 1005 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Andres, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2021 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
May 8, 2021 to May 12, 2021
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1005 mb (29.68 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 646 km (401 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
170 nmi (315 km, 196 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
EP012021

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
May 8, 12:0012.7N 105.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
May 8, 18:0012.9N 106.4W25 kt1008 mbLow
May 9, 00:0013.1N 107.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
May 9, 06:0013.4N 107.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
May 9, 12:0013.7N 107.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 9, 18:0014.0N 108.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 10, 00:0014.4N 108.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 10, 06:0014.8N 109.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 10, 12:0015.3N 109.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 10, 18:0015.7N 109.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
May 11, 00:0015.8N 110.1W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
May 11, 06:0015.9N 110.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
May 11, 12:0015.9N 111.1W20 kt1008 mbLow
May 11, 18:0015.9N 111.7W20 kt1009 mbLow
May 12, 00:0015.9N 112.4W20 kt1009 mbLow
May 12, 06:0015.9N 113.1W20 kt1009 mbLow
May 12, 12:0015.7N 114.0W20 kt1009 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2021

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.