The 1999 season

Tropical Storm Cam (1999)

Tropical Storm Cam peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between September 22, 1999 and September 26, 1999, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cam, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1999 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
September 22, 1999 to September 26, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
WP251999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 22, 12:0017.5N 112.6E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0017.0N 112.7E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0017.6N 113.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0017.8N 113.6E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0018.3N 114.1E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0018.7N 114.4E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0019.1N 114.6E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0019.4N 114.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0019.9N 115.1E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0020.4N 115.2E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0020.8N 115.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0021.4N 115.4E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0022.0N 115.5E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0022.2N 115.4E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0022.2N 114.6E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0022.8N 113.6E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0023.3N 112.7E15 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0023.1N 111.4E1010 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1999

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.