Tropical Storm Mike (2014)

Tropical Storm Mike peaked at 50 kt in the South Pacific between March 17, 2014 and March 26, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 986 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Mike, 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: South Pacific
Dates: March 17, 2014 to March 26, 2014
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure: 986 mb (29.12 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 792 km (492 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 2.9
Identifier: SH202014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Mar 17, 12:00	11.3S 164.1W	20 kt	1000 mb	Not reported
Mar 17, 18:00	11.4S 165.2W	25 kt	999 mb	Not reported
Mar 18, 00:00	12.2S 164.8W	25 kt	999 mb	Not reported
Mar 18, 06:00	13.4S 163.0W	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Mar 18, 12:00	14.8S 162.2W	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Mar 18, 18:00	16.3S 161.4W	25 kt	1004 mb	Disturbance
Mar 19, 00:00	18.4S 160.3W	30 kt	997 mb	Tropical depression
Mar 19, 06:00	20.5S 159.3W	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Mar 19, 12:00	22.6S 158.5W	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Mar 19, 18:00	24.8S 158.5W	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Mar 20, 00:00	26.2S 159.0W	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Mar 20, 06:00	27.1S 159.7W	30 kt	1000 mb	Extratropical
Mar 20, 12:00	26.4S 160.6W	25 kt	1004 mb	Extratropical
Mar 20, 18:00	28.0S 159.6W	50 kt	990 mb	Not reported
Mar 21, 00:00	29.8S 160.0W	50 kt	990 mb	Not reported
Mar 21, 06:00	31.0S 160.3W	50 kt	988 mb	Not reported
Mar 21, 12:00	32.7S 160.9W	50 kt	986 mb	Not reported
Mar 21, 18:00	34.5S 161.6W	50 kt	988 mb	Not reported
Mar 22, 00:00	35.7S 161.7W	45 kt	988 mb	Not reported
Mar 22, 06:00	36.4S 161.4W	45 kt	988 mb	Not reported
Mar 22, 12:00	37.1S 161.1W	40 kt	990 mb	Not reported
Mar 22, 18:00	38.0S 160.9W	40 kt	990 mb	Not reported
Mar 23, 00:00	38.4S 160.9W	40 kt	992 mb	Not reported
Mar 23, 06:00	38.6S 161.0W	35 kt	992 mb	Not reported
Mar 23, 12:00	38.7S 161.4W	35 kt	994 mb	Not reported
Mar 23, 18:00	38.6S 161.6W	35 kt	994 mb	Not reported
Mar 24, 00:00	38.5S 161.5W	35 kt	996 mb	Not reported
Mar 24, 06:00	38.7S 161.2W	35 kt	996 mb	Not reported
Mar 24, 12:00	39.2S 161.2W	30 kt	996 mb	Not reported
Mar 24, 18:00	39.7S 162.0W	30 kt	996 mb	Not reported
Mar 25, 00:00	39.6S 164.8W	30 kt	996 mb	Not reported
Mar 25, 06:00	39.3S 165.1W	30 kt	998 mb	Not reported
Mar 25, 12:00	38.8S 165.0W	30 kt	998 mb	Not reported
Mar 25, 18:00	38.6S 164.3W	25 kt	998 mb	Not reported
Mar 26, 00:00	38.6S 163.7W	25 kt	998 mb	Not reported

Other South 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.