The 2002 season

Tropical Storm Nakri (2002)

Tropical Storm Nakri peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between July 7, 2002 and July 13, 2002, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nakri, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2002 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
July 7, 2002 to July 13, 2002
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.4
Identifier
WP112002

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Jul 12, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 7, 18:0021.3N 116.4E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:0021.6N 117.5E20 kt996 mbTropical depression
Jul 8, 06:0021.9N 117.8E25 kt994 mbTropical depression
Jul 8, 12:0022.2N 118.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jul 8, 18:0022.7N 118.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0023.3N 119.2E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0023.8N 119.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0024.1N 120.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0024.6N 120.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0024.9N 121.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0025.1N 121.8E30 kt990 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 12:0025.3N 122.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0025.3N 124.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0025.3N 124.8E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0025.3N 125.5E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0025.4N 126.1E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0025.5N 126.4E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0025.6N 126.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0026.0N 126.8E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0026.6N 126.8E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0028.0N 126.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0028.7N 126.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0030.5N 127.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 13, 12:0031.5N 127.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression

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.