The 2014 season

Tropical Storm Mitag (2014)

Tropical Storm Mitag peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between June 9, 2014 and June 12, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Mitag, 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
June 9, 2014 to June 12, 2014
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 102 km (63 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
2014160N21120

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Jun 11, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 9, 00:0020.9N 120.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0020.9N 120.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0021.0N 121.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0021.1N 121.5E998 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0021.3N 121.9E998 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0022.0N 122.6E998 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0022.3N 123.6E998 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0023.0N 124.8E998 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0023.3N 125.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0024.1N 127.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0025.6N 130.1E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0027.2N 132.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0028.9N 135.9E994 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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.