The 2023 season

Tropical Storm Greg (2023)

Tropical Storm Greg peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 14, 2023 and August 18, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Greg, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 14, 2023 to August 18, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 753 km (468 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
EP082023

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 14, 00:0011.3N 138.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 06:0011.3N 139.2W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0011.3N 140.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0011.2N 141.5W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0011.1N 142.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0011.1N 144.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0011.1N 145.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0011.1N 146.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0011.3N 147.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0011.6N 149.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0011.7N 150.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0011.8N 151.8W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0012.0N 152.9W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0012.1N 153.9W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0012.0N 155.1W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0012.2N 156.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 00:0012.1N 157.8W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 18, 06:0012.1N 157.8W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 18, 12:0011.4N 160.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 18:0011.0N 162.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern 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.