The 1998 season

Tropical Storm Dawn (1998)

Tropical Storm Dawn peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between November 16, 1998 and November 20, 1998, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Dawn, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1998 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
November 16, 1998 to November 20, 1998
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP221998

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 16, 12:0011.4N 117.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 16, 18:009.6N 116.8E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 00:009.6N 116.0E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 06:009.6N 115.1E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 12:009.6N 114.3E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 18:009.8N 113.6E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 18, 00:0010.0N 113.0E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 18, 06:0010.3N 112.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 18, 12:0010.7N 112.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 18, 18:0011.1N 111.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 00:0011.5N 111.0E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 06:0011.9N 110.4E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 12:0012.2N 109.6E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 19, 18:0012.5N 109.0E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 20, 00:0012.8N 108.4E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 06:0013.1N 107.5E20 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 12:0013.3N 106.4E20 ktNot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1998

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.