The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Washi (2005)

Tropical Storm Washi peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 28, 2005 and July 31, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 991 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Washi, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2005 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 28, 2005 to July 31, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.6
Identifier
WP082005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 28, 12:0018.5N 114.6ETropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0018.4N 112.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 00:0018.1N 112.3E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0018.4N 112.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0018.4N 111.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0018.5N 110.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0018.8N 110.2E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0019.1N 109.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0019.3N 108.6E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0019.4N 107.6E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0019.8N 106.7E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0020.1N 105.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0020.5N 104.5E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Jul 31, 18:0020.3N 103.2E998 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2005

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.