The 2008 season

Tropical Storm Maysak (2008)

Tropical Storm Maysak peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between November 5, 2008 and November 13, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Maysak, 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
November 5, 2008 to November 13, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
WP242008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 5, 12:008.4N 127.8E1008 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:009.6N 126.1E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 6, 00:009.7N 124.3E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 6, 06:0010.2N 122.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 6, 12:0011.6N 121.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 6, 18:0012.4N 120.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 7, 00:0013.1N 118.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0013.6N 117.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0014.4N 115.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0014.9N 115.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:0015.4N 114.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:0016.0N 115.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:0016.9N 115.0E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:0017.6N 115.5E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:0018.1N 115.9E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0017.6N 116.2E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 12:0017.0N 116.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 18:0016.2N 116.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 10, 00:0015.4N 116.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 10, 06:0014.6N 116.7E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 10, 12:0014.1N 117.1E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 10, 18:0014.0N 117.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 11, 00:0013.8N 117.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 11, 06:0013.6N 117.9E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 11, 12:0013.1N 117.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 11, 18:0012.6N 117.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 12, 00:0012.1N 116.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 12, 06:0012.0N 115.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 12, 12:0011.6N 115.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 12, 18:0011.7N 114.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 13, 00:0011.9N 113.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 13, 06:0012.7N 112.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 13, 12:0013.1N 111.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 13, 18:0011.7N 110.6E1006 mbTropical storm

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.