The 1998 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1998)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between October 10, 1998 and October 12, 1998.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
October 10, 1998 to October 12, 1998
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 280 km (174 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Identifier
WP191998

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Oct 10, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 10, 06:0013.1N 148.8E45 ktNot reported
Oct 10, 12:0013.6N 147.4E50 ktNot reported
Oct 10, 18:0014.2N 145.5E50 ktNot reported
Oct 11, 00:0014.5N 143.6E45 ktNot reported
Oct 11, 06:0015.1N 141.8E45 ktNot reported
Oct 11, 12:0015.8N 139.7E40 ktNot reported
Oct 11, 18:0016.7N 137.4E35 ktNot reported
Oct 12, 00:0017.7N 134.4E30 ktNot reported
Oct 12, 06:0018.2N 131.2E30 ktNot reported
Oct 12, 12:0017.0N 128.3E30 ktNot reported
Oct 12, 18:0014.3N 127.0E25 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.