The 2002 season

Tropical Storm Hagupit (2002)

Tropical Storm Hagupit peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between September 8, 2002 and September 15, 2002, 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
September 8, 2002 to September 15, 2002
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP232002

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 8, 18:0019.7N 121.3E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 00:0019.7N 120.4E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 06:0019.7N 119.7E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 12:0019.6N 119.4E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 18:0019.5N 119.1E15 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 00:0019.6N 118.6E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 06:0019.9N 117.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 12:0020.3N 116.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0020.5N 115.8E35 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0020.7N 114.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0021.0N 113.7E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0021.3N 112.7E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0021.6N 112.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 00:0021.8N 110.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 06:0022.0N 110.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 12:0022.2N 109.6E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 18:0022.6N 109.3E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 00:0022.9N 108.6E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 06:0022.0N 108.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0021.8N 109.1E1004 mbMixed
Sep 13, 18:0021.8N 109.3E1004 mbMixed
Sep 14, 00:0021.8N 109.4E1004 mbMixed
Sep 14, 06:0021.5N 109.9E1004 mbMixed
Sep 14, 12:0021.3N 110.9E1002 mbMixed
Sep 14, 18:0021.4N 111.5E1004 mbMixed
Sep 15, 00:0021.3N 112.2E1004 mbMixed
Sep 15, 06:0021.3N 112.4E1002 mbMixed
Sep 15, 12:0021.3N 112.5E1004 mbMixed
Sep 15, 18:0021.1N 112.7E1004 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 2002

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.