The 2023 season

Tropical Storm Irwin (2023)

Tropical Storm Irwin peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 26, 2023 and September 3, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Irwin, 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 26, 2023 to September 3, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1171 km (728 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi)
Overall size
320 nmi (593 km, 368 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP102023

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 26, 18:0015.5N 117.9W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 00:0015.9N 118.6W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 06:0016.3N 119.3W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 12:0016.6N 120.0W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0017.0N 121.0W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0017.2N 121.9W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0017.5N 122.6W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0017.9N 123.2W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0018.5N 123.8W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0019.1N 125.0W40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0019.5N 126.4W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0019.7N 128.1W35 kt1002 mbLow
Aug 29, 18:0019.3N 129.6W35 kt1003 mbLow
Aug 30, 00:0018.9N 131.0W30 kt1004 mbLow
Aug 30, 06:0018.8N 132.3W30 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 30, 12:0019.0N 133.5W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 30, 18:0019.1N 134.5W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 31, 00:0019.1N 135.4W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 31, 06:0019.1N 136.4W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 31, 12:0019.1N 137.2W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 31, 18:0019.1N 137.9W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 1, 00:0019.0N 138.5W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 1, 06:0018.8N 139.0W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 1, 12:0018.5N 139.3W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 1, 18:0018.1N 139.7W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 2, 00:0017.7N 140.1W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 2, 06:0017.3N 140.5W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 2, 12:0016.9N 140.8W25 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 2, 18:0016.5N 141.1W20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 3, 00:0016.2N 141.4W20 kt1006 mbLow

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.