Track map & timeline · Eastern Pacific · July 14–16, 1979
TD TS Cat 1 2 3 4 5 · dashed = post-tropical / remnant low. Click any point or table row to jump there.
01 · The story
Tropical Storm Carlos (1979) was a tropical storm of the 1979 Eastern Pacific season. It formed on July 14, 1979, 109 mi SW of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico, reached its peak of 52 mph (83 km/h) on July 15, 1979, and never made landfall. The storm lasted 1.5 days and travelled about 639 miles (1,027 km).
02 · Intensity
03 · Timeline
| Date · UTC | Status | Wind | Pressure | Position | Nearest place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14 18:00 | TD | 35 mph | — | 17.0°N 103.5°W | 109 mi SW of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, Mexico |
| Jul 15 00:00 | TS | 40 mph | — | 17.4°N 104.4°W | 110 mi SSW of Tecomán, Colima, Mexico |
| Jul 15 06:00 | TS | 46 mph | — | 17.7°N 105.5°W | 124 mi SW of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico |
| Jul 15 12:00 | TS | 52 mph | — | 17.9°N 106.9°W | 179 mi WSW of Cihuatlán, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Jul 15 18:00 | TS | 52 mph | — | 18.3°N 108.5°W | open ocean |
| Jul 16 00:00 | TD | 35 mph | — | 18.5°N 110.3°W | open ocean |
| Jul 16 06:00 | TD | 29 mph | — | 18.5°N 113.0°W | open ocean |
⬇ Download track data (CSV) · public-domain NOAA best track
Questions
No — the NOAA best-track record shows no landfall for Carlos.
At its peak on July 15, 1979, Carlos was a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 52 mph (83 km/h).
1.5 days, from July 14, 1979 to July 16, 1979. It travelled about 639 miles.
The 6-hourly positions, winds, pressure and wind radii are available as CSV on this page (track.csv) — they come from the NOAA National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database and are in the public domain.
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