The 2017 season

Tropical Storm Pakhar (2017)

Tropical Storm Pakhar peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 24, 2017 and August 28, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 983 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 24, 2017 to August 28, 2017
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
983 mb (29.03 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
190 nmi (352 km, 219 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
21 kt (24 mph)
Identifier
WP162017

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 24, 00:0015.7N 128.9E20 kt1008 mbTropical wave
Aug 24, 06:0015.3N 127.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical wave
Aug 24, 12:0015.2N 126.4E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 18:0015.0N 124.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0015.2N 124.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0015.6N 123.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0016.1N 122.2E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0017.0N 121.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0017.8N 119.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0018.5N 118.0E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0019.5N 116.2E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0020.7N 114.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0021.9N 113.4E60 kt983 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0023.2N 111.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0024.0N 110.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 18:0024.1N 108.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0023.9N 107.4E1004 mbMixed

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.