The 2002 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2002)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between August 10, 2002 and August 14, 2002, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 10, 2002 to August 14, 2002
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Identifier
WP182002

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 10, 06:0010.6N 131.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 12:0010.5N 131.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 18:0010.4N 130.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 00:0010.5N 130.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 06:0010.7N 130.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 12:0011.1N 129.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 18:0011.5N 128.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 00:0012.1N 128.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 06:0012.7N 127.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 12:0013.3N 126.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0013.8N 125.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0014.2N 124.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 06:0014.4N 122.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 12:0014.4N 120.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 18:0013.9N 119.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 00:0013.5N 118.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 06:0013.8N 117.8E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 12:0014.5N 117.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 18:0015.0N 118.0E20 kt1004 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.