All storm pages · 1987 Pacific season
Tropical Storm Knut 1987
Tropical storm · Eastern and Central Pacific · August 28 to August 30, 1987
With a peak of 40 mph, Knut ranked tied for the 18th-strongest of the 20 storms of the 1987 season. It produced 0% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy. It spent 2.0 days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone, and its best track covers 701 miles. The name Knut is on the National Hurricane Center's list of retired central and eastern North Pacific names.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 1,055 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Tropical storm 1,165 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Peak 1,165 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Last record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 10.3°N, 129.2°W
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
In the 1987 season
Storm 12 of 20 in 1987; it formed after Oka and before Lidia. See the season.
Closest to land
The best-track file has no landfall records for Pacific storms of 1987, so the track itself shows where this storm went. Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 1,038 miles from the center on August 28 (depression stage).
Storms within 150 miles of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Also peaked at 40 mph
Of 72 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Blas (1986)no pressure recorded, no landfall record
- Darby (1986)no pressure recorded, no landfall record
- Georgette (1986)no pressure recorded, no landfall record
- Howard (1986)no pressure recorded, no landfall record