Typhoon Faith (1998)

Typhoon Faith reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between December 7, 1998 and December 14, 1998, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Faith, 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: December 7, 1998 to December 14, 1998
Peak strength: Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure: 970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 10.5
Fastest the center moved: 18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier: WP241998

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 7, 18:00	6.1N 141.0E	20 kt		Not reported
Dec 8, 00:00	6.3N 139.9E	20 kt		Not reported
Dec 8, 06:00	6.7N 138.8E	25 kt		Not reported
Dec 8, 12:00	7.3N 137.7E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 18:00	8.1N 136.5E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 00:00	9.1N 135.1E	30 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 06:00	9.9N 133.6E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 12:00	10.6N 132.1E	30 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 18:00	10.9N 130.6E	40 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 00:00	11.2N 128.8E	50 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 06:00	11.2N 127.0E	60 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 12:00	12.0N 125.4E	65 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 18:00	12.2N 123.7E	65 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 00:00	12.2N 121.9E	75 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 06:00	11.8N 120.3E	80 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 12:00	11.3N 118.8E	90 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 18:00	11.2N 117.2E	90 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 00:00	10.9N 115.8E	90 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 06:00	10.6N 114.4E	90 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 12:00	10.6N 113.3E	90 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 18:00	10.6N 112.5E	85 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 00:00	10.7N 112.0E	85 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 06:00	11.0N 111.5E	80 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 12:00	11.4N 110.9E	75 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 18:00	11.9N 110.2E	65 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 00:00	12.7N 109.4E	60 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 06:00	13.5N 108.4E	45 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 12:00	14.3N 107.3E	30 kt	1008 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 18:00	15.1N 106.2E	20 kt		Not 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.

Wikipedia article: Typhoon Faith