The 2012 season

Tropical Storm Maliksi (2012)

Tropical Storm Maliksi peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between September 29, 2012 and October 6, 2012, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Maliksi, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2012 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
September 29, 2012 to October 6, 2012
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 341 km (212 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
WP202012

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 29, 12:0012.0N 151.9E15 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Sep 29, 18:0013.4N 151.3E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 30, 00:0014.7N 150.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 30, 06:0016.0N 149.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 30, 12:0016.1N 148.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 30, 18:0016.4N 147.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 00:0017.1N 146.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 06:0018.0N 146.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 12:0018.7N 145.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0019.4N 144.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 00:0020.1N 143.5E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 06:0021.0N 142.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 12:0022.0N 142.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0022.9N 141.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0024.3N 141.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0025.9N 141.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0027.9N 142.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0030.9N 142.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0034.1N 143.9E45 kt989 mbExtratropical
Oct 4, 06:0036.9N 145.8E45 kt989 mbExtratropical
Oct 4, 12:0039.8N 149.6E45 kt989 mbExtratropical
Oct 4, 18:0042.4N 153.2E45 kt989 mbExtratropical
Oct 5, 00:0043.8N 155.2E968 mbExtratropical
Oct 5, 06:0044.9N 157.1E964 mbExtratropical
Oct 5, 12:0045.9N 159.2E960 mbExtratropical
Oct 5, 18:0045.8N 162.2E960 mbExtratropical
Oct 6, 00:0045.7N 167.0E968 mbExtratropical
Oct 6, 06:0045.3N 172.1E972 mbExtratropical
Oct 6, 12:0045.1N 177.3E976 mbExtratropical
Oct 6, 18:0046.7N 182.7EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 2012

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.