The 2021 season

Tropical Storm Marty (2021)

Tropical Storm Marty peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 23, 2021 and August 27, 2021, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 23, 2021 to August 27, 2021
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 308 km (191 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP132021

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 23, 00:0019.6N 108.9W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0020.0N 110.3W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0020.5N 111.8W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0020.7N 113.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0020.7N 115.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0020.6N 116.4W30 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 24, 12:0020.6N 117.5W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 24, 18:0020.5N 118.6W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 25, 00:0020.5N 119.6W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 25, 06:0020.5N 120.5W30 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 25, 12:0020.6N 121.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 25, 18:0020.6N 122.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 26, 00:0020.7N 123.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 26, 06:0020.7N 124.5W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 26, 12:0020.6N 125.6W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 26, 18:0020.5N 126.7W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 27, 00:0020.2N 127.8W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 27, 06:0019.7N 129.0W25 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.