Tropical Storm Tui (1998)
Tropical Storm Tui peaked at 40 kt in the South Pacific between January 24, 1998 and January 27, 1998, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Tui, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- South Pacific
- Dates
- January 24, 1998 to January 27, 1998
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 990 mb (29.23 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 10 km (6 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.8
- Fastest the center moved
- 6 kt (7 mph)
- Identifier
- SH161998
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.
In the United States
NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Samoa | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 tropical storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 18:00 | 12.4S 174.8W | 25 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Jan 25, 00:00 | 12.5S 174.2W | 25 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 25, 06:00 | 12.7S 173.7W | 25 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 25, 12:00 | 12.9S 173.2W | 25 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 25, 18:00 | 13.1S 172.7W | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 26, 00:00 | 13.3S 172.4W | 40 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 26, 06:00 | 13.5S 172.2W | 40 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 26, 12:00 | 13.7S 172.1W | 40 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 26, 18:00 | 14.0S 172.0W | 40 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 27, 00:00 | 14.4S 171.9W | 25 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 27, 06:00 | 14.7S 171.9W | 20 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 27, 12:00 | 14.8S 171.9W | 20 kt | Tropical storm |
Other South Pacific storms of 1998
- Tropical Storm LusiSouth Pacific · 1998
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone MartinSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone NuteSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone OseaSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone PamSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone SusanSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone RonSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone KatrinaSouth Pacific · 1998
- Tropical Storm LesSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone UrsulaSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone VeliSouth Pacific · 1998
- Tropical Storm WesSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone Cindy:VictorSouth Pacific · 1998
- Tropical Storm MaySouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone YaliSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone NathanSouth Pacific · 1998
- Cyclone ZumanSouth Pacific · 1998
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1998
- Tropical Storm AlanSouth Pacific · 1998
- Tropical Storm BartSouth Pacific · 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.