The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Sharon (1994)

Tropical Storm Sharon peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between June 18, 1994 and June 25, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Sharon, 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
June 18, 1994 to June 25, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Identifier
WP061994

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
Jun 18, 00:006.0N 152.0E15 ktNot reported
Jun 18, 06:006.2N 150.6E15 ktNot reported
Jun 18, 12:006.4N 149.2E20 ktNot reported
Jun 18, 18:006.6N 147.8E20 ktNot reported
Jun 19, 00:006.8N 146.3E20 ktNot reported
Jun 19, 06:007.0N 144.8E20 ktNot reported
Jun 19, 12:007.3N 143.3E20 ktNot reported
Jun 19, 18:007.7N 141.8E20 ktNot reported
Jun 20, 00:008.2N 140.3E20 ktNot reported
Jun 20, 06:008.8N 138.9E20 ktNot reported
Jun 20, 12:009.5N 137.5E20 ktNot reported
Jun 20, 18:0010.2N 136.1E20 ktNot reported
Jun 21, 00:0010.8N 134.7E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 21, 06:0011.3N 133.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 21, 12:0011.8N 131.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 21, 18:0012.2N 130.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 22, 00:0012.6N 128.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 22, 06:0013.0N 127.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 22, 12:0013.5N 125.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 22, 18:0014.1N 123.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 00:0014.9N 121.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0015.7N 119.4E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0016.4N 117.6E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0017.3N 116.1E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0018.2N 114.9E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0019.1N 113.9E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0020.0N 113.1E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 18:0020.9N 112.4E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 00:0021.7N 111.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 06:0022.6N 111.3E25 kt1000 mbMixed
Jun 25, 12:0023.6N 110.9E20 kt1000 mbMixed
Jun 25, 18:0024.8N 110.6E15 ktNot reported

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.