The 2000 season

Tropical Storm Kaemi (2000)

Tropical Storm Kaemi peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between August 18, 2000 and August 23, 2000, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 18, 2000 to August 23, 2000
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP192000

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 18, 12:0012.1N 116.0E25 ktTropical depression
Aug 18, 18:0012.2N 115.8E25 ktTropical depression
Aug 19, 00:0012.3N 115.3E25 ktTropical depression
Aug 19, 06:0012.3N 115.0E20 ktTropical depression
Aug 19, 12:0012.4N 114.6E20 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 19, 18:0012.5N 114.1E20 kt998 mbTropical depression
Aug 20, 00:0012.7N 113.7E20 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 20, 06:0012.9N 113.4E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 20, 12:0013.4N 112.9E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 20, 18:0013.8N 112.5E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 00:0014.3N 112.1E25 kt994 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 06:0014.8N 111.7E30 kt992 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 12:0015.3N 111.1E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0015.5N 110.1E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0015.6N 109.2E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0016.1N 108.3E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0016.2N 107.4E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0016.4N 106.8E30 kt994 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 00:0016.5N 106.2E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 06:0016.5N 105.4E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0016.3N 104.9E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0016.4N 104.1E1000 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2000

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.