Hurricane Carlotta (2024): Track, Deaths, Damage and Rainfall

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The storm

Basin: Eastern Pacific
Dates: July 31, 2024 to August 8, 2024
Peak strength: Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure: 979 mb (28.91 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 482 km (300 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 8.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 100 kt (115 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier: EP032024

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jul 31, 06:00	14.3N 105.8W	30 kt	1006 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 31, 12:00	15.0N 106.7W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 31, 18:00	15.8N 107.6W	40 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 1, 00:00	16.4N 108.4W	45 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 1, 06:00	16.8N 109.4W	50 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 1, 12:00	17.1N 110.4W	50 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 1, 18:00	17.4N 111.3W	55 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 2, 00:00	17.8N 112.4W	60 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 2, 06:00	18.1N 113.5W	65 kt	991 mb	Hurricane
Aug 2, 12:00	18.3N 114.6W	70 kt	986 mb	Hurricane
Aug 2, 18:00	18.5N 115.8W	75 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Aug 3, 00:00	18.7N 117.2W	80 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Aug 3, 06:00	18.8N 118.4W	80 kt	979 mb	Hurricane
Aug 3, 12:00	18.8N 119.5W	80 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Aug 3, 18:00	19.0N 120.5W	75 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
Aug 4, 00:00	19.3N 121.4W	70 kt	986 mb	Hurricane
Aug 4, 06:00	19.5N 122.4W	65 kt	989 mb	Hurricane
Aug 4, 12:00	19.7N 123.5W	60 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 4, 18:00	19.8N 124.4W	55 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 5, 00:00	19.9N 125.4W	50 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 5, 06:00	20.1N 126.1W	45 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 5, 12:00	20.3N 126.8W	40 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 5, 18:00	20.5N 127.4W	40 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
Aug 6, 00:00	20.6N 128.1W	40 kt	1003 mb	Low
Aug 6, 06:00	20.6N 128.8W	35 kt	1005 mb	Low
Aug 6, 12:00	20.6N 129.4W	30 kt	1007 mb	Low
Aug 6, 18:00	20.6N 130.1W	30 kt	1008 mb	Low
Aug 7, 00:00	20.6N 131.0W	30 kt	1008 mb	Low
Aug 7, 06:00	20.4N 131.8W	30 kt	1008 mb	Low
Aug 7, 12:00	20.1N 132.6W	25 kt	1008 mb	Low
Aug 7, 18:00	19.9N 133.3W	25 kt	1008 mb	Low
Aug 8, 00:00	19.6N 134.2W	25 kt	1008 mb	Low

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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.