The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Brendan (1994)

Tropical Storm Brendan peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between July 25, 1994 and August 3, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Brendan, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1994 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
July 25, 1994 to August 3, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Identifier
WP141994

Radar at RKSG as it neared land, Aug 1, 06:00 UTC

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
Jul 25, 06:0013.9N 130.6E10 ktNot reported
Jul 25, 12:0014.0N 130.0E10 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0014.1N 129.4E15 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0014.1N 128.8E15 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0014.2N 128.2E15 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0014.5N 127.7E15 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0014.9N 127.2E15 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0015.3N 126.7E15 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0015.7N 126.3E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0016.2N 126.0E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0016.7N 125.9E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0017.2N 126.0E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0017.7N 126.2E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0018.2N 126.6E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0018.8N 126.9E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0019.4N 127.3E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0020.2N 127.8E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0021.2N 128.1E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0022.2N 128.4E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0023.3N 128.6E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0024.4N 128.7E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0025.6N 128.3E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0026.8N 127.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0028.3N 126.5E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0029.9N 125.9E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0031.7N 125.5E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0033.5N 125.5E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0035.3N 126.1E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0036.8N 127.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0038.0N 129.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0039.0N 131.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0039.9N 134.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0040.4N 137.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0040.7N 139.9E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0040.9N 142.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0040.8N 144.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0040.8N 145.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0041.0N 147.0E1004 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1994

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.