The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Usagi (2001)

Tropical Storm Usagi peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between August 8, 2001 and August 11, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Usagi, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2001 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 8, 2001 to August 11, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
WP132001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 8, 06:0016.8N 117.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 12:0016.8N 116.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 18:0016.7N 115.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 00:0016.6N 114.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 06:0016.4N 113.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 12:0016.8N 112.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 18:0017.4N 111.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 00:0017.7N 110.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 06:0017.8N 108.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0018.1N 107.4E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0018.4N 105.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0018.3N 104.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 06:0018.2N 102.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression

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.