The 2014 season

Tropical Storm Kajiki (2014)

Tropical Storm Kajiki peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between January 29, 2014 and February 1, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Kajiki, 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
January 29, 2014 to February 1, 2014
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Eyewall radius at its peak
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
23 kt (26 mph)
Identifier
WP022014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 29, 00:009.7N 143.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 06:009.6N 141.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 12:008.4N 139.7E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jan 29, 18:008.4N 138.7E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Jan 30, 00:008.5N 137.5E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Jan 30, 06:008.8N 135.9E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Jan 30, 12:009.1N 134.3E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Jan 30, 18:009.4N 132.5E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jan 31, 00:009.6N 130.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 31, 06:0010.0N 128.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 12:0010.5N 126.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 18:0011.3N 125.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 1, 00:0011.8N 123.3E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Feb 1, 06:0012.1N 120.7E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Feb 1, 12:0011.2N 118.1E1008 mbMixed

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.