The 2013 season

Super Typhoon Utor (2013)

Super Typhoon Utor reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 8, 2013 and August 18, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 926 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Utor, 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 8, 2013 to August 18, 2013
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
926 mb (27.34 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
17.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
12 nmi (22 km, 14 mi)
Overall size
220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
WP112013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 8, 06:0012.2N 137.3E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 8, 12:0012.3N 136.6E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 8, 18:0012.8N 136.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 9, 00:0013.4N 135.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 06:0013.6N 134.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 12:0013.6N 132.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0013.5N 131.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0013.6N 130.5E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0013.8N 129.2E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Aug 10, 12:0014.0N 128.1E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Aug 10, 18:0014.3N 127.0E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Aug 11, 00:0014.5N 125.9E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Aug 11, 06:0015.1N 124.8E110 kt941 mbTyphoon
Aug 11, 12:0015.5N 123.5E130 kt926 mbSuper typhoon
Aug 11, 18:0016.1N 122.2E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Aug 12, 00:0016.5N 120.8E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Aug 12, 06:0017.1N 119.1E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Aug 12, 12:0017.9N 117.9E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Aug 12, 18:0018.0N 116.5E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Aug 13, 00:0018.4N 115.2E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Aug 13, 06:0018.9N 114.1E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Aug 13, 12:0019.3N 113.4E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Aug 13, 18:0019.8N 112.9E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Aug 14, 00:0020.6N 112.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Aug 14, 06:0021.6N 111.8E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Aug 14, 12:0022.1N 110.9E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Aug 14, 18:0022.4N 110.7E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0022.8N 110.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0023.8N 111.0E35 kt996 mbExtratropical
Aug 15, 12:0024.2N 111.3E30 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 15, 18:0024.4N 111.3E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0024.7N 111.6E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0024.8N 111.5E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0024.8N 111.2E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0024.7N 110.8E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0024.3N 110.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0023.9N 110.1E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0023.7N 109.9E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0023.4N 109.7E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0023.3N 109.3E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0023.1N 108.9E998 mbMixed

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.