The 1994 season

Typhoon Pat (1994)

Typhoon Pat reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between September 19, 1994 and September 26, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Pat, 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
September 19, 1994 to September 26, 1994
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1014 km (630 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.8
Identifier
WP291994

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
Sep 19, 12:0017.4N 170.2E15 ktNot reported
Sep 19, 18:0017.1N 169.8E20 ktNot reported
Sep 20, 00:0016.8N 169.4E20 ktNot reported
Sep 20, 06:0016.5N 169.0E25 ktNot reported
Sep 20, 12:0016.3N 168.4E25 ktNot reported
Sep 20, 18:0016.1N 167.8E30 ktNot reported
Sep 21, 00:0015.9N 167.2E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0015.8N 166.6E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0015.8N 166.0E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0015.9N 165.4E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0016.3N 164.8E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0016.9N 164.3E60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0017.8N 163.9E70 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0019.0N 163.4E80 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0020.5N 163.0E90 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0022.0N 162.6E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0023.2N 162.2E95 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0024.3N 161.6E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0025.2N 161.0E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0025.9N 160.1E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0026.5N 159.1E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0027.2N 157.8E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0028.0N 155.9E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0028.3N 153.4E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0027.9N 151.5E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0027.3N 150.5E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0028.5N 151.5E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0030.5N 151.3E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0031.3N 150.5E35 kt994 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.