Tropical Storm Phanfone (2008)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 9, 2008 to August 11, 2008

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph), ten-minute wind

Lowest pressure

996 mb (29.41 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 1071 km (665 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.7

Identifier

2008223N27151

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

• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Typhoon NeoguriWestern Pacific · 2008 · 26 deathsCat 3100 kt · 948 mb
• Super Typhoon RammasunWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 4135 kt · 922 mb
• Tropical Storm MatmoWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Typhoon HalongWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 175 kt · 967 mb
• Typhoon NakriWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 4125 kt · 929 mb
• Typhoon FengshenWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 3110 kt · 941 mb
• Typhoon KalmaegiWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 290 kt · 956 mb
• Typhoon Fung-WongWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 295 kt · 952 mb
• Tropical Storm KammuriWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm50 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Tropical Storm VongfongWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Typhoon NuriWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 3100 kt · 948 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm35 kt · 1000 mb
• Typhoon SinlakuWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 4125 kt · 929 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Typhoon HagupitWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 4125 kt · 929 mb
• Super Typhoon JangmiWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 5140 kt · 918 mb
• Tropical Storm HigosWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Tropical Storm MekkhalaWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Tropical Storm BaviWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm45 kt · 948 mb
• Tropical Storm MaysakWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm NoulWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Tropical Storm HaishenWestern Pacific · 2008Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Typhoon DolphinWestern Pacific · 2008Cat 285 kt · 959 mb

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.