The 2009 season

Tropical Storm Nangka (2009)

Tropical Storm Nangka peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between June 22, 2009 and June 27, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nangka, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2009 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
June 22, 2009 to June 27, 2009
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
WP042009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 22, 00:0010.0N 132.3E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jun 22, 06:0010.7N 130.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 12:0011.0N 129.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 18:0010.9N 127.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 23, 00:0011.1N 126.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0011.8N 125.6E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0011.8N 124.3E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0012.3N 123.1E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0012.7N 122.0E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0013.2N 121.1E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0013.7N 120.2E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 18:0014.3N 119.4E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 00:0015.2N 118.8E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 06:0016.4N 118.2E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 12:0017.6N 117.6E40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 18:0018.6N 116.8E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 00:0019.6N 116.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 06:0020.8N 115.8E40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 12:0022.1N 114.9E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jun 26, 18:0022.8N 114.4E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Jun 27, 00:0023.3N 113.9E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jun 27, 06:0023.7N 113.8E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 2009

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.