Cyclone Gabrielle (2023)
Cyclone Gabrielle reached Category 2 in the South Pacific between February 5, 2023 and February 15, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 958 mb. It killed 5 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Cyclone Gabrielle, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2023 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
- South Pacific
- Dates
- February 5, 2023 to February 15, 2023
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 958 mb (28.29 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 57 km (35 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 4.9
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 360 nmi (667 km, 414 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 65 nmi (120 km, 75 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
- Overall size
- 620 nmi (1148 km, 713 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 28 kt (32 mph)
- Identifier
- SH122023
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
5 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 06:00 | 12.3S 163.0E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 5, 12:00 | 12.2S 161.5E | 15 kt | 1010 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 5, 18:00 | 12.0S 160.1E | 15 kt | 1001 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 6, 00:00 | 11.9S 158.7E | 15 kt | 1001 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 6, 06:00 | 11.7S 157.3E | 20 kt | 996 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 6, 12:00 | 11.8S 156.0E | 25 kt | 997 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 6, 18:00 | 12.3S 155.5E | 25 kt | 997 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 7, 00:00 | 12.8S 155.0E | 30 kt | 993 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 7, 06:00 | 13.3S 154.4E | 30 kt | 991 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 7, 12:00 | 13.9S 153.7E | 35 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 7, 18:00 | 15.1S 153.4E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 8, 00:00 | 15.5S 153.0E | 40 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 8, 06:00 | 16.0S 152.6E | 45 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 8, 12:00 | 16.8S 152.4E | 45 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 8, 18:00 | 17.4S 152.7E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 9, 00:00 | 18.0S 153.0E | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 9, 06:00 | 19.1S 153.9E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 9, 12:00 | 19.7S 154.9E | 70 kt | 975 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 9, 18:00 | 20.7S 156.1E | 80 kt | 968 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 10, 00:00 | 22.0S 157.7E | 85 kt | 965 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 10, 06:00 | 23.3S 159.6E | 90 kt | 958 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 10, 12:00 | 24.9S 162.3E | 75 kt | 968 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 10, 18:00 | 26.6S 164.3E | 60 kt | 975 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Feb 11, 00:00 | 27.8S 165.6E | 60 kt | 975 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Feb 11, 06:00 | 28.6S 167.0E | 60 kt | 971 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Feb 11, 12:00 | 29.3S 168.2E | 55 kt | 973 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Feb 11, 18:00 | 29.8S 170.2E | 50 kt | 975 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Feb 12, 00:00 | 30.9S 171.8E | 45 kt | 981 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Feb 12, 06:00 | 31.9S 173.2E | 967 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 12, 12:00 | 32.5S 174.0E | 970 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 12, 18:00 | 33.3S 175.1E | 971 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 13, 00:00 | 34.2S 176.0E | 972 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 13, 06:00 | 35.5S 176.1E | 970 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 13, 12:00 | 36.2S 175.9E | 966 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 13, 18:00 | 36.2S 176.5E | 967 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 14, 00:00 | 36.7S 178.0E | 969 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 14, 06:00 | 37.4S 179.4E | 972 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 14, 12:00 | 37.8S 180.4E | 976 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 14, 18:00 | 38.3S 181.9E | 980 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 15, 00:00 | 39.7S 184.4E | 983 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 15, 06:00 | 41.7S 185.9E | 984 mb | Not reported | |
| Feb 15, 12:00 | 42.7S 186.4E | 986 mb | Not reported |
Other South Pacific storms of 2023
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.