The 2014 season

Tropical Storm Fung-Wong (2014)

Tropical Storm Fung-Wong peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between September 17, 2014 and September 25, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 981 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Fung-Wong, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2014 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 17, 2014 to September 25, 2014
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
981 mb (28.97 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi)
Overall size
350 nmi (648 km, 403 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
37 kt (43 mph)
Identifier
WP162014

Radar at RKJK as it neared land, Sep 24, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 17, 00:0012.6N 135.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0012.4N 132.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0013.6N 130.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 17, 18:0014.0N 129.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0014.3N 128.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0015.0N 126.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0016.0N 125.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0017.1N 123.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0017.9N 122.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0018.5N 121.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0018.6N 120.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0018.7N 120.0E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0019.3N 119.6E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0020.1N 119.6E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0020.7N 119.6E45 kt981 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0021.3N 119.8E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0021.8N 120.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0022.7N 121.4E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0024.1N 122.1E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0026.1N 121.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0027.3N 122.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0028.3N 122.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0029.0N 122.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0029.8N 122.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0030.5N 122.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0031.6N 122.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 12:0031.9N 122.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 18:0032.2N 123.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 24, 00:0033.2N 125.1E1002 mbMixed
Sep 24, 06:0034.3N 127.6E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 24, 12:0036.0N 131.5E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 24, 18:0037.1N 135.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 25, 00:0037.5N 138.5E1002 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 2014

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.