The 2000 season

Tropical Storm Maria (2000)

Tropical Storm Maria peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between August 27, 2000 and September 2, 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 27, 2000 to September 2, 2000
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.6
Identifier
WP212000

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 27, 06:0021.6N 115.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0021.5N 115.0E20 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 18:0021.4N 115.2E20 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 00:0021.2N 115.4E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 06:0020.8N 115.4E25 kt998 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 12:0020.2N 115.4E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 18:0019.7N 115.4E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0019.2N 115.5E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0018.8N 115.7E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0018.5N 115.9E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0018.4N 115.9E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0018.5N 115.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0018.6N 115.9E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0019.1N 116.1E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0019.6N 116.2E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0020.2N 115.8E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0020.9N 115.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0021.6N 115.6E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0022.4N 115.1E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0023.3N 114.4E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0024.1N 113.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0025.2N 113.8E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0026.1N 113.4E25 kt998 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0027.5N 113.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0028.6N 113.5E1002 mbMixed
Sep 2, 12:0029.5N 112.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0029.8N 111.7E1004 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.