The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Kajiki (2001)

Tropical Storm Kajiki peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between December 4, 2001 and December 9, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 997 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
December 4, 2001 to December 9, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Identifier
WP302001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 4, 00:009.7N 130.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 4, 06:0010.1N 129.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Dec 4, 12:0010.1N 128.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Dec 4, 18:0010.1N 126.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Dec 5, 00:0010.3N 125.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 5, 06:0010.6N 124.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 5, 12:0010.9N 123.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 5, 18:0011.1N 123.0E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Dec 6, 00:0011.3N 122.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 6, 06:0011.4N 121.2E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 6, 12:0011.6N 120.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 6, 18:0011.8N 119.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 00:0012.0N 117.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 06:0012.4N 116.6E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 12:0012.6N 115.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 18:0012.7N 114.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 00:0013.0N 113.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 8, 06:0013.1N 112.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 8, 12:0013.1N 112.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 8, 18:0013.0N 112.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Dec 9, 00:0012.8N 111.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Dec 9, 06:0012.8N 111.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Dec 9, 12:0012.9N 111.0E1006 mbTropical storm

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.