The 2014 season

Tropical Storm Jangmi (2014)

Tropical Storm Jangmi peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between December 27, 2014 and January 1, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Jangmi, 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
December 27, 2014 to January 1, 2015
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
185 nmi (343 km, 213 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
WP232014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 27, 12:007.0N 130.1ETropical storm
Dec 27, 18:007.6N 129.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Dec 28, 00:007.7N 128.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Dec 28, 06:007.9N 128.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 28, 12:008.2N 127.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 28, 18:008.6N 126.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 00:008.9N 126.0E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 06:009.4N 125.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 12:009.8N 124.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 18:009.9N 123.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 00:009.8N 123.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 30, 06:009.7N 122.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Dec 30, 12:009.5N 122.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Dec 30, 18:009.3N 122.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Dec 31, 00:008.8N 121.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Dec 31, 06:008.1N 120.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Dec 31, 12:007.6N 120.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Dec 31, 18:007.2N 119.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 1, 00:006.8N 119.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 1, 06:006.6N 118.6E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 1, 12:006.4N 117.5E1006 mbTropical storm

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.