The 2001 season

Tropical Storm Wylva (2001)

Tropical Storm Wylva peaked at 40 kt in the South Pacific between February 14, 2001 and February 22, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 988 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
South Pacific
Dates
February 14, 2001 to February 22, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
2001045S14142

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 14, 00:0013.5S 141.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 14, 06:0014.0S 141.2ETropical storm
Feb 14, 12:0014.4S 141.0E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 14, 18:0014.6S 140.9ETropical storm
Feb 15, 00:0014.7S 140.6E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 15, 06:0014.8S 140.1E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 15, 12:0015.1S 139.7E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 15, 18:0015.3S 138.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Feb 16, 00:0015.5S 138.4E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 16, 06:0016.0S 138.0E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 16, 12:0016.5S 136.9E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 16, 18:0017.2S 136.2E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 00:0018.0S 136.0E30 kt995 mbNot reported
Feb 17, 06:0018.6S 135.6E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Feb 17, 12:0019.0S 135.0E25 kt993 mbNot reported
Feb 17, 18:0019.0S 134.0E25 kt993 mbNot reported
Feb 18, 00:0018.9S 132.7E25 kt993 mbNot reported
Feb 18, 06:0018.8S 131.6E25 kt990 mbNot reported
Feb 18, 12:0018.7S 130.5E25 kt988 mbNot reported
Feb 18, 18:0018.8S 129.3ENot reported
Feb 19, 00:0019.0S 128.0E25 kt992 mbNot reported
Feb 19, 06:0019.2S 126.4ENot reported
Feb 19, 12:0019.5S 125.0E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Feb 19, 18:0020.0S 124.1ENot reported
Feb 20, 00:0020.5S 123.5E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Feb 20, 06:0021.0S 123.0ENot reported
Feb 20, 12:0021.5S 122.5E25 kt995 mbNot reported
Feb 20, 18:0021.9S 121.6ENot reported
Feb 21, 00:0022.2S 120.5E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Feb 21, 06:0022.6S 119.3ENot reported
Feb 21, 12:0023.0S 118.0E25 kt993 mbNot reported
Feb 21, 18:0023.3S 116.9ENot reported
Feb 22, 00:0023.5S 116.0E25 kt998 mbNot reported

Other South 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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.