The 2010 season

Tropical Storm Jal (2010)

Tropical Storm Jal peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between October 31, 2010 and November 8, 2010, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Jal, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2010 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
October 31, 2010 to November 8, 2010
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 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
23 kt (26 mph)
Identifier
IO052010

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 31, 18:006.3N 104.5E15 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Nov 1, 00:006.0N 103.5E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Nov 1, 06:006.5N 102.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 1, 12:007.1N 101.7E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 1, 18:007.6N 100.7E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 2, 00:007.7N 98.9E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 2, 06:008.4N 97.9E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 2, 12:008.3N 96.9E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 2, 18:008.3N 95.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 3, 00:008.3N 94.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 3, 06:008.3N 94.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 3, 12:008.3N 93.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 3, 18:008.4N 92.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 4, 00:008.5N 91.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 4, 06:008.7N 90.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 4, 12:008.8N 90.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:009.0N 89.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:009.2N 88.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:009.4N 87.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:009.7N 87.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0010.1N 86.5E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0010.4N 86.0E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0010.7N 85.5E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0011.2N 84.7E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0011.6N 83.9E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0012.1N 82.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0012.5N 81.8E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0012.9N 81.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0013.3N 80.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:0014.7N 78.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression

Other Western Pacific storms of 2010

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.