The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Yunya (1994)

Tropical Storm Yunya peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 16, 1994 and July 21, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Yunya, 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 16, 1994 to July 21, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.5
Identifier
WP111994

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 16, 06:0013.8N 114.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 16, 12:0014.1N 115.2E15 ktNot reported
Jul 16, 18:0014.5N 115.8E20 ktNot reported
Jul 17, 00:0014.9N 116.4E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0015.3N 116.9E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0015.6N 117.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0015.9N 117.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0016.2N 118.4E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0016.5N 118.9E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0016.9N 119.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0017.4N 119.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0018.0N 120.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0018.6N 121.2E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0019.1N 122.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0019.5N 123.4E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0019.8N 124.6E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0020.0N 125.9E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0020.1N 127.2E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0020.2N 128.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0020.3N 129.8E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0020.4N 131.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0020.6N 132.4E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0020.8N 133.5E20 kt1000 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.