The 2017 season

Tropical Storm Talas (2017)

Tropical Storm Talas peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between July 14, 2017 and July 17, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Talas, 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 14, 2017 to July 17, 2017
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
WP062017

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 14, 00:0016.0N 114.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0016.3N 113.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0016.5N 113.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0016.6N 112.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0016.9N 112.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 06:0017.1N 111.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 12:0017.3N 111.2E30 kt997 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 18:0017.6N 110.1E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0018.0N 109.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0018.3N 108.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0018.5N 107.1E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0018.8N 105.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0018.9N 103.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0019.0N 101.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 17, 12:0019.5N 100.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jul 17, 18:0019.6N 100.2E1000 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.