The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Bebinca (2018)

Tropical Storm Bebinca peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 9, 2018 and August 17, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 979 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Bebinca, 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
August 9, 2018 to August 17, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
979 mb (28.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
WP202018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 9, 00:0016.9N 111.7ETropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0017.5N 111.5ETropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0018.0N 111.6ETropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0018.7N 111.5E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0020.0N 111.2E20 kt1001 mbLow
Aug 10, 06:0020.1N 111.5E20 kt1000 mbLow
Aug 10, 12:0020.2N 111.8E20 kt997 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 18:0020.7N 111.9E20 kt997 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 00:0021.4N 112.1E20 kt997 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 06:0021.5N 112.1E20 kt996 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 12:0021.6N 111.8E25 kt995 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 18:0021.4N 111.4E25 kt994 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 00:0021.1N 111.9E25 kt994 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 06:0021.0N 112.2E30 kt993 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 12:0020.6N 112.4E35 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0020.6N 112.6E35 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0020.6N 112.9E40 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0020.5N 113.1E40 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0020.5N 113.3E40 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0020.7N 113.6E40 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0020.8N 113.7E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0021.0N 113.7E40 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0021.0N 113.4E40 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0021.0N 113.0E45 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0020.7N 112.1E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0021.0N 111.5E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0020.9N 110.7E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0020.6N 109.5E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0020.2N 108.6E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0020.0N 107.9E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0019.9N 107.3E60 kt979 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0019.6N 106.3E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0019.4N 105.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0019.4N 103.5E30 kt997 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 12:0019.8N 101.5E25 kt998 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 18:0019.9N 99.6E20 kt999 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.