The 2014 season

Tropical Depression Lingling (2014)

Tropical Depression Lingling peaked at 30 kt in the Western Pacific between January 15, 2014 and January 20, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb. It killed 70 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Lingling, 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 15, 2014 to January 20, 2014
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 139 km (86 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
190 nmi (352 km, 219 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
WP012014

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

70 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 15, 00:009.6N 129.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 06:009.6N 129.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 12:009.7N 129.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 18:009.8N 128.9E1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 00:009.8N 128.8E1008 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 06:009.7N 128.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 12:009.5N 128.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 18:009.2N 128.4E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jan 17, 00:009.5N 128.2E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jan 17, 06:009.8N 127.9E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jan 17, 12:0010.0N 127.6E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jan 17, 18:009.6N 127.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 18, 00:009.2N 127.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 18, 06:008.7N 128.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 18, 12:008.0N 128.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 18, 18:007.6N 128.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 19, 00:007.4N 128.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 19, 06:007.2N 128.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 19, 12:006.8N 128.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 19, 18:006.3N 128.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 20, 00:006.2N 129.2E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jan 20, 06:006.3N 129.0E1004 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.