The 2021 season

Tropical Storm Jimena (2021)

Tropical Storm Jimena peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 26, 2021 and August 7, 2021, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Jimena, 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
July 26, 2021 to August 7, 2021
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1193 km (741 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP092021

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 26, 18:0013.2N 114.7W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 27, 00:0013.1N 115.5W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 27, 06:0013.0N 116.1W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 27, 12:0012.8N 116.6W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 27, 18:0012.5N 117.0W20 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 28, 00:0012.6N 117.6W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 28, 06:0012.9N 118.2W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 28, 12:0013.4N 119.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 28, 18:0013.7N 119.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 29, 00:0013.7N 121.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 29, 06:0013.6N 122.0W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 29, 12:0013.4N 122.6W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 29, 18:0013.2N 123.2W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 30, 00:0013.0N 123.8W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 30, 06:0012.7N 124.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 30, 12:0012.5N 125.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 30, 18:0012.4N 125.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 00:0012.2N 126.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 06:0012.0N 126.9W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 12:0012.0N 127.6W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 18:0011.5N 128.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 00:0011.5N 127.5W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 06:0011.8N 127.0W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 1, 12:0012.2N 127.3W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 1, 18:0012.2N 128.0W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 2, 00:0012.2N 128.8W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 2, 06:0012.3N 129.5W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 2, 12:0012.5N 130.2W25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 2, 18:0012.7N 131.0W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 3, 00:0013.0N 131.9W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 3, 06:0013.3N 132.6W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 3, 12:0013.5N 133.1W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 3, 18:0013.6N 133.6W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 4, 00:0013.6N 134.3W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 4, 06:0013.7N 134.8W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 4, 12:0014.0N 135.2W30 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 4, 18:0014.4N 135.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 00:0014.9N 136.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 06:0015.3N 136.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 12:0015.7N 136.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0016.2N 137.2W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0016.6N 137.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0017.0N 138.2W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0017.3N 139.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0017.6N 139.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 00:0017.9N 140.5W25 kt1008 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.