Cyclone Pam (1998)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

December 2, 1997 to December 14, 1997

Peak strength

Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)

Lowest pressure

974 mb (28.76 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 710 km (441 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

6.2

Identifier

SH071998

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

• Tropical Storm LusiSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm60 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm35 kt
• Cyclone MartinSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 3100 kt · 945 mb
• Cyclone NuteSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 170 kt · 975 mb
• Cyclone OseaSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 290 kt · 950 mb
• Cyclone SusanSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 5140 kt · 900 mb
• Cyclone RonSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 5145 kt · 900 mb
• Cyclone KatrinaSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 290 kt · 940 mb
• Tropical Storm LesSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm50 kt · 976 mb
• Tropical Storm TuiSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm40 kt · 990 mb
• Cyclone UrsulaSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 165 kt · 975 mb
• Cyclone VeliSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 175 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm WesSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm45 kt · 985 mb
• Cyclone Cindy:VictorSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 290 kt · 970 mb
• Tropical Storm MaySouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm35 kt · 990 mb
• Cyclone YaliSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 290 kt · 944 mb
• Cyclone NathanSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 165 kt · 990 mb
• Cyclone ZumanSouth Pacific · 1998Cat 3100 kt · 955 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm40 kt
• Tropical Storm AlanSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm45 kt · 995 mb
• Tropical Storm BartSouth Pacific · 1998Tropical Storm35 kt · 987 mb

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.

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.