The 1986 season

Tropical Storm Dom (1986)

Tropical Storm Dom peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between October 2, 1986 and October 12, 1986, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Dom, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1986 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 2, 1986 to October 12, 1986
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.5
Identifier
WP181986

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 2, 00:009.9N 134.1EDisturbance
Oct 2, 06:0010.5N 132.4EDisturbance
Oct 2, 12:0011.0N 130.7EDisturbance
Oct 2, 18:0011.5N 129.2EDisturbance
Oct 3, 00:0011.8N 127.9ETropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0012.0N 126.9ETropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0012.3N 126.2ETropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0012.7N 125.6ETropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0013.1N 125.2ETropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0013.4N 124.8ETropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0013.6N 124.4ETropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0013.8N 123.7ETropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0014.0N 122.9ETropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0014.1N 122.4ETropical storm
Oct 5, 12:0014.5N 122.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0014.8N 121.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0014.8N 121.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0014.8N 120.7E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0014.8N 120.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0014.8N 119.8E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0014.7N 119.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0014.6N 119.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0014.6N 118.7E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0014.6N 118.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0014.6N 117.7E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0014.5N 117.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0014.8N 116.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0015.1N 115.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0015.4N 114.9E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0016.0N 114.0E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0016.3N 113.3E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0016.6N 112.6E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0016.8N 111.7E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0017.0N 110.9E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0017.1N 110.1E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0017.2N 109.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0017.3N 108.5E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0017.3N 107.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0017.4N 106.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0017.8N 105.8E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0018.8N 105.1E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1986

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.