The 2013 season

Typhoon Rumbia (2013)

Typhoon Rumbia reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between June 27, 2013 and July 2, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Rumbia, 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
June 27, 2013 to July 2, 2013
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
190 nmi (352 km, 219 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
WP062013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 27, 00:009.1N 132.5E1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:009.1N 132.1E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:008.8N 131.3E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jun 27, 18:009.0N 130.2E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 00:009.4N 129.3E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jun 28, 06:0010.0N 128.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 28, 12:0010.7N 127.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 28, 18:0011.2N 126.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 29, 00:0011.9N 125.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 29, 06:0012.5N 124.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0013.5N 122.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0014.1N 121.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0014.7N 119.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0015.5N 118.5E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 12:0016.7N 117.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 18:0017.7N 115.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0018.3N 113.9E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0019.1N 112.6E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0019.8N 111.6E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Jul 1, 18:0020.4N 110.5E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0021.5N 109.8E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0022.6N 109.0E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0024.1N 108.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0025.2N 107.2EDisturbance

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.