The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Caitlin (1994)

Tropical Storm Caitlin peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between July 29, 1994 and August 6, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Caitlin. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
July 29, 1994 to August 6, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Identifier
WP161994

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Jul 29, 00:00 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 29, 00:0015.5N 143.5E10 ktNot reported
Jul 29, 06:0016.0N 142.5E10 ktNot reported
Jul 29, 12:0016.5N 141.5E10 ktNot reported
Jul 29, 18:0017.0N 140.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 30, 00:0017.3N 139.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 30, 06:0017.6N 138.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 30, 12:0017.9N 137.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 30, 18:0018.1N 136.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 31, 00:0018.3N 135.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 31, 06:0018.5N 134.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 31, 12:0018.7N 133.5E20 ktNot reported
Jul 31, 18:0018.8N 132.5E20 ktNot reported
Aug 1, 00:0018.9N 131.5E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0019.0N 130.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0019.2N 129.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0019.4N 128.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0019.6N 127.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0019.9N 126.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0020.4N 125.4E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0021.0N 124.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0021.7N 123.1E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0022.5N 121.9E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0023.3N 120.6E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0023.7N 119.2E55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0024.0N 117.8E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0024.4N 116.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0025.2N 115.5E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0026.1N 114.3E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0027.0N 113.0E20 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0027.0N 113.0E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0027.3N 112.5E998 mbMixed
Aug 5, 18:0027.6N 112.0E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0028.0N 111.5E998 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.