The 2013 season

Tropical Storm Cimaron (2013)

Tropical Storm Cimaron peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between July 14, 2013 and July 19, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cimaron, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2013 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
July 14, 2013 to July 19, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
WP082013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 14, 18:0014.6N 127.3E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jul 15, 00:0014.4N 126.5E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jul 15, 06:0014.4N 125.8E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jul 15, 12:0014.5N 125.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 18:0014.7N 124.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 00:0015.1N 124.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 06:0015.7N 124.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 12:0016.5N 123.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0017.4N 122.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0018.3N 122.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0019.6N 120.9E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0020.4N 119.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0021.3N 118.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0022.1N 117.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0022.8N 117.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0023.7N 117.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0024.9N 117.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 19, 00:0025.3N 117.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 2013

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.