Tropical Storm Lester (2022)
Tropical Storm Lester peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 15, 2022 and September 17, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 1005 mb, and made landfall. It killed 1 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Lester, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2022 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- September 15, 2022 to September 17, 2022
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 1005 mb (29.68 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.6
- 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
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 9 kt (10 mph)
- Identifier
- EP132022
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
1 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.
Landfall
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 12:00 | Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico, 10 km away | 15.8N 97.0W | 30 kt (35 mph) | 1006 mb |
Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 12:00 | 12.4N 95.1W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Sep 15, 18:00 | 12.6N 95.0W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 16, 00:00 | 12.8N 95.1W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 16, 06:00 | 13.1N 95.4W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 16, 12:00 | 13.5N 96.1W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 16, 18:00 | 14.0N 96.8W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 17, 00:00 | 14.4N 97.3W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 17, 06:00 | 15.1N 97.4W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 17, 12:00 landfall | 15.8N 97.0W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2022
- Hurricane AgathaEastern Pacific · 2022 · 9 deaths
- Hurricane BlasEastern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm CeliaEastern Pacific · 2022
- Hurricane DarbyEastern Pacific · 2022
- Hurricane EstelleEastern Pacific · 2022
- Hurricane FrankEastern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm GeorgetteEastern Pacific · 2022
- Hurricane HowardEastern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm IvetteEastern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm JavierEastern Pacific · 2022
- Hurricane KayEastern Pacific · 2022 · 5 deaths
- Tropical Storm MadelineEastern Pacific · 2022 · 2 deaths
- Tropical Storm NewtonEastern Pacific · 2022
- Hurricane OrleneEastern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm PaineEastern Pacific · 2022
- Hurricane RoslynEastern Pacific · 2022 · 3 deaths
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.