The 2013 season

Tropical Storm Toraji (2013)

Tropical Storm Toraji peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 31, 2013 and September 5, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Toraji, 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
August 31, 2013 to September 5, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
WP152013

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Sep 2, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 31, 00:0025.6N 121.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0024.8N 121.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0024.8N 121.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 31, 18:0024.9N 122.1E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 1, 00:0025.1N 122.9E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Sep 1, 06:0025.7N 123.6E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Sep 1, 12:0025.9N 124.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0026.2N 124.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0026.6N 125.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0027.2N 126.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0027.7N 126.6E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0028.2N 127.2E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0028.8N 127.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0029.5N 128.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0030.2N 129.4E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0031.1N 130.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0032.3N 132.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0032.8N 133.5E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 4, 12:0032.5N 134.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 4, 18:0032.8N 135.9E1006 mbExtratropical
Sep 5, 00:0033.5N 136.6E1010 mbExtratropical
Sep 5, 06:0033.9N 137.7E1010 mbExtratropical

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.