The 2024 season

Tropical Storm Bud (2024)

Tropical Storm Bud peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 24, 2024 and July 28, 2024, with a lowest pressure of 1001 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
July 24, 2024 to July 28, 2024
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
1001 mb (29.56 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 668 km (415 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 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
60 kt (69 mph)
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP022024

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
Jul 24, 12:0016.3N 110.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 18:0016.9N 111.7W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0017.4N 112.8W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0017.8N 114.0W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0018.1N 115.2W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0018.4N 116.4W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0018.7N 117.5W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0018.9N 118.5W35 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 26, 12:0019.1N 119.3W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 26, 18:0019.2N 120.1W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 27, 00:0019.3N 121.0W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 27, 06:0019.3N 122.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 27, 12:0019.2N 123.0W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 27, 18:0019.0N 123.8W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 28, 00:0018.5N 124.6W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 28, 06:0017.8N 125.4W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 28, 12:0017.0N 126.3W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 28, 18:0016.1N 127.3W20 kt1011 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2024

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.