The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Harry (1994)

Tropical Storm Harry peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 20, 1994 and August 29, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Harry. 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
August 20, 1994 to August 29, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.2
Identifier
WP211994

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
Aug 20, 00:0010.0N 143.5E10 ktNot reported
Aug 20, 06:0010.5N 142.5E10 ktNot reported
Aug 20, 12:0011.0N 141.5E10 ktNot reported
Aug 20, 18:0011.5N 140.5E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 00:0012.0N 139.5E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 06:0012.5N 138.5E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 12:0012.9N 137.4E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 18:0013.3N 136.3E10 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 00:0013.7N 135.2E10 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 06:0014.0N 134.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 12:0014.3N 132.8E15 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 18:0014.6N 131.6E15 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 00:0014.9N 130.4E15 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 06:0015.2N 129.2E15 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 12:0015.6N 128.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 18:0016.0N 126.8E15 ktNot reported
Aug 24, 00:0016.4N 125.6E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0016.8N 124.3E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0017.2N 123.0E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0017.6N 121.7E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0018.0N 120.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0018.3N 119.3E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0018.6N 118.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0018.9N 117.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0019.1N 116.0E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0019.4N 115.0E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0019.8N 114.0E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0020.0N 113.1E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0020.2N 112.2E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0020.3N 111.4E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0020.4N 110.6E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0020.5N 109.9E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0020.6N 109.2E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0020.7N 108.5E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0020.9N 107.7E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0021.0N 106.7E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0021.0N 105.7E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0021.0N 104.6E15 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0021.0N 103.4E10 kt1002 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.