The 1999 season

Tropical Storm Hali (1999)

Tropical Storm Hali peaked at 50 kt in the South Pacific between March 11, 1999 and March 20, 1999, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Hali. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
South Pacific
Dates
March 11, 1999 to March 20, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1132 km (703 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.5
Identifier
SH271999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 11, 06:0018.8S 154.2W25 ktTropical storm
Mar 11, 12:0018.8S 155.4W25 ktTropical storm
Mar 11, 18:0019.0S 156.7W25 ktTropical storm
Mar 12, 00:0019.6S 158.5W25 ktTropical storm
Mar 12, 06:0020.0S 159.1W30 ktTropical storm
Mar 12, 12:0020.2S 159.4W35 ktTropical storm
Mar 12, 18:0020.2S 159.7W40 kt997 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 00:0020.1S 160.2W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 06:0020.2S 160.7W50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 12:0020.3S 161.2W40 kt987 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 18:0020.2S 161.9W40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 00:0020.1S 162.3W40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 06:0020.2S 162.7W40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 12:0020.3S 163.0W40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 18:0020.3S 163.2W40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 00:0020.2S 163.5W40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 06:0020.1S 163.9W40 kt975 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 12:0020.6S 164.3W40 kt975 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 18:0021.3S 164.2W45 kt975 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 00:0021.9S 164.1W45 kt970 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 06:0022.4S 163.8W45 kt970 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 12:0022.7S 163.4W45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 18:0023.1S 163.9W40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 00:0023.8S 163.9W40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 06:0024.0S 163.5W30 kt986 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 12:0024.1S 162.8W30 kt987 mbNot reported
Mar 17, 18:0024.2S 162.4W30 kt990 mbNot reported
Mar 18, 00:0024.3S 162.2W30 kt990 mbNot reported
Mar 18, 06:0024.5S 161.7W35 kt995 mbNot reported
Mar 18, 12:0024.6S 161.1WNot reported
Mar 18, 18:0024.8S 160.3WNot reported
Mar 19, 00:0025.0S 159.5W25 kt999 mbNot reported
Mar 19, 06:0025.3S 158.5W25 kt999 mbNot reported
Mar 19, 12:0025.6S 157.0W25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 19, 18:0026.5S 156.5W25 kt1001 mbNot reported
Mar 20, 00:0027.6S 156.0W25 kt1005 mbNot reported
Mar 20, 06:0028.0S 153.0W25 kt1004 mbNot reported

Other South 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.