The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Barijat (2018)

Tropical Storm Barijat peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between September 8, 2018 and September 13, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Barijat, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2018 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
September 8, 2018 to September 13, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
170 nmi (315 km, 196 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
WP272018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 8, 06:0020.4N 121.7E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0020.5N 122.1E15 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 8, 18:0020.9N 122.3E20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 9, 00:0021.0N 122.7E20 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 9, 06:0021.4N 123.0E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Sep 9, 12:0022.0N 123.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 9, 18:0021.9N 122.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 00:0021.7N 121.9E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 06:0021.5N 121.4E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0021.4N 120.7E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0020.9N 119.7E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0020.8N 119.0E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0020.8N 118.2E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0020.7N 117.4E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0020.7N 116.4E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0020.8N 115.4E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0020.9N 114.5E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0020.8N 113.3E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0020.8N 112.2E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0021.2N 110.7E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0021.3N 109.7E25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 12:0021.2N 108.3E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Sep 13, 18:0021.8N 106.7E15 kt1009 mbDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 2018

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.