The 2008 season

Tropical Storm Kammuri (2008)

Tropical Storm Kammuri peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 3, 2008 and August 8, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Kammuri, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2008 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
August 3, 2008 to August 8, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
215 nmi (398 km, 247 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
WP102008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 3, 12:0019.0N 120.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0020.0N 120.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 00:0019.8N 119.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 06:0019.4N 118.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 12:0019.4N 117.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 4, 18:0019.6N 117.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 00:0020.0N 116.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0020.3N 115.6E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0020.6N 115.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0020.9N 114.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0021.3N 113.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0021.6N 112.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0021.7N 111.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0021.7N 110.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0021.7N 109.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0021.8N 107.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 12:0022.0N 106.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 18:0021.6N 105.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 8, 00:0021.2N 104.6E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0021.3N 103.2E998 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 2008

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.