The 2013 season

Typhoon Wutip (2013)

Typhoon Wutip reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between September 25, 2013 and October 1, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Wutip, 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
September 25, 2013 to October 1, 2013
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
7 nmi (13 km, 8 mi)
Overall size
225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
WP202013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 25, 18:0014.9N 118.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0014.8N 117.9E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Sep 26, 06:0014.9N 117.7E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 26, 12:0015.2N 117.6E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Sep 26, 18:0015.5N 117.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 27, 00:0016.2N 117.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 27, 06:0016.8N 116.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0016.9N 115.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0016.7N 114.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0016.4N 114.1E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0016.7N 114.1E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0016.8N 113.6E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 18:0016.8N 113.1E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 00:0016.7N 112.4E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 06:0016.7N 111.7E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 12:0016.8N 110.9E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 18:0016.9N 109.9E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 30, 00:0017.2N 108.7E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 30, 06:0017.5N 107.4E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 30, 12:0017.9N 105.9E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 30, 18:0017.9N 103.7E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0018.0N 101.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm

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.