The 1998 season

Tropical Storm Javier (1998)

Tropical Storm Javier peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 5, 1998 and September 14, 1998, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Javier, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 5, 1998 to September 14, 1998
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP111998

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 5, 18:0016.2N 103.7W25 ktNot reported
Sep 6, 00:0016.7N 105.0W25 ktNot reported
Sep 6, 06:0017.2N 106.2W25 ktNot reported
Sep 6, 12:0017.8N 106.8W25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 18:0018.3N 107.5W25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 00:0018.8N 108.3W25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 06:0019.2N 109.1W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 12:0019.6N 109.7W30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 18:0020.2N 110.5W35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0020.5N 111.6W35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0020.6N 111.9W40 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0020.8N 112.2W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0020.8N 111.9W40 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0020.8N 111.5W35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0020.5N 111.5W35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0020.8N 111.5W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0020.9N 111.7W30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 00:0021.1N 111.0W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 06:0021.0N 110.8W25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 12:0020.8N 110.6W25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 18:0020.6N 110.3W25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 00:0020.3N 110.1W25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 06:0020.1N 109.8W25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 12:0019.8N 109.6W25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 18:0019.2N 109.2W25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 00:0018.6N 108.7W25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 06:0018.2N 108.2W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 12:0017.9N 107.6W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0018.0N 106.9W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0018.4N 106.4W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0018.8N 106.1W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0019.3N 105.8W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0019.8N 105.6W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0020.0N 105.5W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 06:0020.2N 105.3W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 12:0020.5N 105.2W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern 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.