The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Vanessa (1994)

Tropical Storm Vanessa peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 8, 1994 and July 11, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Vanessa, 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 8, 1994 to July 11, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 86 km (53 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Identifier
WP091994

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 8, 00:0015.7N 117.0E20 ktNot reported
Jul 8, 06:0015.9N 116.6E20 ktNot reported
Jul 8, 12:0016.1N 116.2E25 ktNot reported
Jul 8, 18:0016.1N 115.8E30 ktXX
Jul 9, 00:0016.1N 115.6E35 kt1000 mbXX
Jul 9, 06:0016.0N 115.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0015.8N 115.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0015.3N 115.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0015.1N 116.2E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0015.5N 117.5E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 12:0016.5N 118.7E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0017.7N 119.7E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0019.4N 120.5E25 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0021.0N 121.0E20 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0023.0N 119.0E996 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.