The 2017 season

Tropical Storm Sonca (2017)

Tropical Storm Sonca peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 20, 2017 and July 29, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Sonca, 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 20, 2017 to July 29, 2017
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
WP082017

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 20, 12:0016.1N 116.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jul 20, 18:0016.9N 115.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0017.4N 114.6E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0017.5N 114.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0017.6N 113.6E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0017.7N 113.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 00:0017.9N 112.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 06:0017.9N 112.3E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 12:0017.7N 112.1E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 18:0017.6N 111.8E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jul 23, 00:0017.6N 111.6E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0017.5N 111.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0017.3N 111.6E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0017.2N 111.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0017.0N 111.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0016.9N 110.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0016.9N 110.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0017.0N 109.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0017.0N 108.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0017.0N 107.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0016.8N 106.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0016.6N 104.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0016.4N 104.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 06:0016.1N 103.7E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0016.2N 103.3E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0016.2N 103.0E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0016.5N 103.2E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0016.7N 103.5E998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0016.9N 103.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0017.2N 104.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0017.4N 104.1E1002 mbMixed
Jul 28, 06:0017.6N 104.1E1002 mbMixed
Jul 28, 12:0017.6N 103.8E1002 mbMixed
Jul 28, 18:0017.7N 103.6E1004 mbMixed
Jul 29, 00:0017.7N 103.6E1004 mbMixed
Jul 29, 06:0017.9N 103.8E1002 mbMixed
Jul 29, 12:0018.0N 103.6E1002 mbTropical storm

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.