The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Fitow (2001)

Tropical Storm Fitow peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between August 27, 2001 and September 12, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 991 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, 2001 to September 12, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
WP182001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 27, 06:0018.7N 116.8E15 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 12:0018.9N 115.5E15 kt998 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 18:0019.1N 114.4E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 00:0019.2N 113.6E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 06:0019.2N 113.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 12:0019.2N 113.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 18:0019.3N 112.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 00:0019.4N 112.1E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 06:0019.6N 111.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 12:0019.6N 110.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 18:0019.7N 110.2E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 00:0019.8N 109.7E30 kt994 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 06:0020.0N 109.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 12:0020.2N 109.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0020.6N 108.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0021.0N 108.7E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0021.3N 108.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0021.5N 108.6E30 kt997 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0021.7N 108.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:0022.0N 108.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0021.7N 109.5E1002 mbMixed
Sep 1, 12:0021.6N 109.5EDisturbance
Sep 1, 18:0021.5N 109.5EDisturbance
Sep 2, 00:0021.5N 109.6EDisturbance
Sep 2, 06:0021.1N 109.5ETropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0020.8N 109.5EDisturbance
Sep 2, 18:0020.3N 109.7EDisturbance
Sep 3, 00:0020.1N 109.9EDisturbance
Sep 3, 06:0019.9N 110.0ETropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0019.9N 109.8ETropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0019.9N 109.5ETropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0020.4N 109.4ETropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0020.6N 109.3ETropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0020.8N 108.8ETropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0020.8N 108.7ETropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0020.8N 108.5ETropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0020.7N 108.6ETropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0020.8N 108.7ETropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0020.9N 108.6ETropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0021.1N 108.8ETropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0021.5N 108.9ETropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0021.5N 109.0ETropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0021.3N 109.0ETropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0021.3N 109.3EDisturbance
Sep 7, 06:0021.3N 109.7EDisturbance
Sep 7, 12:0021.0N 110.7EDisturbance
Sep 7, 18:0020.8N 111.8EDisturbance
Sep 8, 00:0020.5N 112.5EDisturbance
Sep 8, 06:0020.2N 112.0EDisturbance
Sep 8, 12:0019.5N 112.0EDisturbance
Sep 8, 18:0019.2N 111.8EDisturbance
Sep 9, 00:0018.8N 111.2EDisturbance
Sep 9, 06:0018.7N 110.8EDisturbance
Sep 9, 12:0018.5N 110.5EDisturbance
Sep 9, 18:0018.4N 110.2EDisturbance
Sep 10, 00:0018.2N 109.4EDisturbance
Sep 10, 06:0018.3N 109.2EDisturbance
Sep 10, 12:0018.3N 109.2EDisturbance
Sep 10, 18:0018.5N 109.0EDisturbance
Sep 11, 00:0018.8N 108.9ETropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0018.8N 108.3ETropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0018.8N 107.2ETropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0018.8N 105.9EDisturbance
Sep 12, 00:0018.4N 104.8EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 2001

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.