The 2002 season

Tropical Storm Kammuri (2002)

Tropical Storm Kammuri peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 1, 2002 and August 7, 2002, with a lowest pressure of 987 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 1, 2002 to August 7, 2002
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
987 mb (29.15 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
WP162002

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 1, 18:0019.0N 120.0ETropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0018.8N 119.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 06:0018.9N 118.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 12:0019.3N 118.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 18:0019.8N 117.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 00:0020.4N 117.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 06:0020.9N 116.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 12:0021.0N 115.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0021.0N 115.4E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0021.0N 115.1E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0021.2N 115.2E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0021.5N 115.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0022.1N 115.5E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0023.0N 115.6E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0024.0N 115.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 12:0025.0N 115.7E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 18:0025.9N 115.6E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 6, 00:0027.2N 115.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0027.1N 115.2E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0027.5N 114.0E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0028.0N 113.5E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0028.4N 114.2E1000 mbTropical storm

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.