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Summary

Description

English: Track map of Hurricane Kate of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season. The points show the location of the storm at 6-hour intervals. The colour represents the storm's maximum sustained wind speeds as classified in the (see below), and the shape of the data points represent the nature of the storm, according to the legend below.

Saffir–Simpson scale

Tropical depression (≤38 mph, ≤62 km/h)

Tropical storm (39–73 mph, 63–118 km/h)

Category 1 (74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h)

Category 2 (96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h)

Category 3 (111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h)

Category 4 (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h)

Category 5 (≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h)

Unknown

Storm type

Tropical cyclone

Subtropical cyclone

Extratropical cyclone / Remnant low / Tropical disturbance / Monsoon depression

Date

2015-11-08–2015-11-13

Source

Created by Supportstorm using Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Tracks. The background image is from NASA. Tracking data is from the National Hurricane Center^[1].

Author

Supportstorm

Source code

Track map data table, if present below, is in HURDAT2 or ATCF format. See format details in [2] and [3], respectively.

Track map generator input code

./track --id 12 --name Kate --year 2015 --format atcf --input bal122015.dat
AL122015,               KATE,     20,
20151108, 1800,  , TD, 22.2N,  71.5W,  30, 1010,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151109, 0000,  , TD, 22.8N,  72.6W,  30, 1010,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151109, 0600,  , TS, 23.4N,  73.7W,  35, 1010,   50,    0,    0,   30,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151109, 1200,  , TS, 24.1N,  74.8W,  40, 1008,   60,    0,    0,   30,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151109, 1800,  , TS, 25.0N,  75.7W,  45, 1008,   70,    0,    0,   30,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151110, 0000,  , TS, 26.4N,  76.2W,  50, 1006,   70,   50,    0,   20,   20,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151110, 0600,  , TS, 28.0N,  76.2W,  55, 1003,   70,   50,   20,   20,   20,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151110, 1200,  , TS, 29.5N,  75.4W,  60,  998,   70,   70,   20,   20,   20,   10,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151110, 1800,  , TS, 31.2N,  74.0W,  60,  993,   70,   70,   20,   20,   20,   10,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151111, 0000,  , HU, 33.1N,  71.3W,  65,  990,   80,   80,   60,   20,   20,   30,    0,    0,    0,   20,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151111, 0600,  , HU, 35.2N,  67.6W,  70,  985,   80,  100,  100,   20,   30,   60,    0,    0,    0,   20,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151111, 1200,  , HU, 36.2N,  62.5W,  75,  980,  120,  180,  180,   50,   60,   90,   60,    0,    0,   30,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151111, 1800,  , HU, 37.6N,  58.2W,  65,  980,  150,  200,  180,   60,   60,   90,   60,    0,    0,   40,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151112, 0000,  , EX, 38.9N,  55.0W,  65,  980,  180,  210,  180,   90,   90,  110,   60,    0,    0,   40,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151112, 0600,  , EX, 40.0N,  52.0W,  65,  980,  220,  220,  180,  120,  120,  120,   60,    0,    0,   40,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151112, 1200,  , EX, 41.3N,  50.4W,  55,  981,  220,  220,  180,  120,  120,  120,   60,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151112, 1800,  , EX, 41.9N,  49.9W,  55,  983,  220,  220,  180,  120,  120,  120,   60,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151113, 0000,  , EX, 41.5N,  49.2W,  50,  985,  540,  520,  200,  220,  120,  120,   60,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151113, 0600,  , EX, 40.8N,  47.5W,  45,  985,  620,  460,  180,  220,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,
20151113, 1200,  , EX, 40.7N,  45.4W,  45,  987,  710,  400,  150,  220,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,    0,     NHC,

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	07:06, 28 July 2019	2,700 × 1,782 (1.54 MB)	Supportstorm	Corrections from HURDAT
	03:23, 14 January 2016	2,700 × 1,782 (1.54 MB)	Supportstorm	TCR update
	04:58, 14 November 2015	2,700 × 2,200 (1.44 MB)	Supportstorm	11/14 00Z
	14:37, 12 November 2015	2,700 × 2,016 (1.79 MB)	Supportstorm	{{WPTC track map \| author = Supportstorm \| name = Hurricane Kate \| article = Hurricane Kate (2015) \| season = 2015 Atlantic hurricane season \| start = 2015-11-07 \| end = 2015-11-12 \| othersource=[ftp://ftp.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/wd20vxt/hwrf-init/dec...