The 2017 season

Tropical Storm Haitang (2017)

Tropical Storm Haitang peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between July 27, 2017 and August 3, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Haitang, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2017 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
July 27, 2017 to August 3, 2017
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
165 nmi (306 km, 190 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
40 kt (46 mph)
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
WP122017

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 27, 12:0019.2N 117.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0019.4N 117.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0019.3N 117.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jul 28, 06:0019.2N 116.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 28, 12:0018.4N 115.7E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jul 28, 18:0018.2N 116.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0018.3N 116.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0018.4N 117.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0018.8N 117.8E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0019.3N 118.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0020.0N 119.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0021.7N 120.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0022.7N 120.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0024.1N 120.2E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0025.4N 119.0E30 kt992 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 06:0026.5N 117.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jul 31, 12:0028.0N 117.0E994 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0029.0N 116.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0029.7N 116.1E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0030.6N 115.8E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 1, 12:0031.2N 115.7E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 1, 18:0031.6N 115.6E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 00:0032.0N 115.8E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 06:0032.6N 115.9E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 12:0033.2N 115.9E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 2, 18:0034.0N 116.0E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 3, 00:0035.2N 116.5EExtratropical
Aug 3, 06:0036.4N 117.4EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 2017

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.